Hospital / healthcare provider

Joseph R. Briscoe Treatment Center

The Joseph R. Briscoe Treatment Center was a substance-use treatment facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Federal directories and state records document its historical identity and later operating arrangements, including a Cenikor contract that ended in June 2014.

Organization profile

Organization type: Hospital / healthcare provider
Headquarters / base: Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
Geographic scope: Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana, in the documented historical records

Former / alternate names

Joseph R. Briscoe Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center
Briscoe Detox Center

Medical focus

Substance useAlcohol use disorders

Activities

Substance use treatmentDetoxification services documented historically

Population served

People with substance use problems

Documented local facility

The 1997 federal substance-use treatment directory lists the Joseph R. Briscoe Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center at 4012 Avenue H in Lake Charles. The same location appears in the historical Southwest Louisiana directory under the Joseph R. Briscoe Treatment Center name.

Federal provider records preserve more than one operating identity associated with this facility. One identifies the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals with Briscoe Detox Center as another name; a separate Cenikor Foundation record uses Joseph R. Briscoe Treatment Center Detox as a doing-business-as name. These records distinguish the local facility from the wider organizations involved in its administration.

Sources: [1], [2], [3], [4].

Dated operating arrangements

Cenikor’s audited financial statements for the years ended June 2014 and June 2013 state that its Lake Charles contract with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals ended on 30 June 2014 and was not renewed. The audit describes that contract period; it does not establish the facility’s subsequent operator or later services.

The older treatment-centre description and provider registrations therefore belong to a dated account of care in Southwest Louisiana. They are not presented as current admission information, a referral destination or evidence of a continuing Cenikor service in Lake Charles.

Sources: [3], [4], [5].

Geography and scope

This profile concerns the named Lake Charles treatment centre. It does not treat the entire Louisiana health department or Cenikor Foundation as former names of the centre. Current services elsewhere within those organizations are separate from the local facility history documented here.

Sources: [2], [3], [4], [5].

Further health reading

Alcohol use disorder