Hospital / healthcare provider

Calcasieu Oaks Behavioral Hospital

Calcasieu Oaks Behavioral Hospital was a Lake Charles psychiatric facility documented in federal treatment directories. It also appears under the names Calcasieu Oaks Psychiatric Hospital and Calcasieu Oaks Behavioral Center. Government records place the facility on Ernest Street and connect its hospital name with Rural Healthcare Developers of Louisiana LLC.

Organization profile

Organization type: Hospital / healthcare provider
Headquarters / base: Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
Geographic scope: Lake Charles and southwest Louisiana

Former / alternate names

Calcasieu Oaks Psychiatric Hospital
Calcasieu Oaks Behavioral Center
Calcasieu Oaks Behavioral Health Center
Calcasieu Oaks Hospital

Medical focus

Mental healthInpatient psychiatric careAdult mental health

Activities

Historically documented hospital psychiatric services

Population served

AdultsYoung adults

Facility and provider identity

The federal provider record identifies Calcasieu Oaks Psychiatric Hospital as a doing-business-as name of Rural Healthcare Developers of Louisiana LLC. It gives 2837 Ernest Street in Lake Charles and a psychiatric-unit classification. The record was created and last updated on 19 December 2008.

SAMHSA’s 2019 directory lists Calcasieu Oaks Behavioral Hospital at the same street address and telephone number. These matching details connect the name variants to one facility. They do not establish a later acquisition, a successor hospital or the organization’s present ownership.

Sources: [1], [2].

Historical mental health role

The 2019 federal entry classifies the service as hospital inpatient mental health care and identifies adult and young-adult populations. It places Calcasieu Oaks within the psychiatric-care network serving Lake Charles. Those classifications describe the directory’s reporting period rather than a promise of beds or treatment availability today.

The Louisiana Mental Health Association’s community guide also includes Calcasieu Oaks among Lake Charles-area resources. The guide expressly distinguishes inclusion from endorsement. Its listing helps document the facility’s place in local referral information, while current admission arrangements, an official website and a definitive closure or succession date remain unconfirmed.

Sources: [2], [3].

Further health reading

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that can affect everyday functioning. This overview supplies background for the adult psychiatric-care setting recorded in the 2019 directory.

Bipolar disorder

This overview of bipolar disorder provides additional clinical background for the hospital’s documented adult mental-health setting. The underlying facility record is historical.