Completion of a $1,308,000 acute and diagnostic unit of the Southeast Louisiana State Hospital near Mandeville was announced today.
It is the first of its kind in the state.
The hospital's intensive treatment area containing 368 beds was completed some time ago and is now in use.
The new section, designed by Ricciuti, Stoffle and Associates, architects contains a 74-bed general hospital for medically ill mental patients and a 52-bed area for diagnosis and study of mental disease.
Called World's Finest
The diagnostic center is described as the finest in the world for team investigation of mental illness. Selected patients from all over the state will be brought there for intensive study and treatment.
In addition to the full time members of the hospital staff, the unit will be named by teachers, researchers and students from the medical schools of Louisiana State university and Tulane university.
PHOTO CAPTION READS: ONE SECTION of the rambling new $1,308,000 medical unit just completed at the Southeast Louisiana State hospital near Mandeville is
shown in top photo. Lower photo shows a portion of the operating room at the institution.
