- To Change Locations: click here
- To Undergo a Change of Ownership: click here
- Adding an Off-site of CPST and/or PSR:
- If you want to add an off-site inside your service area and you currently provide CPST and/or PSR, you do not need to complete FNR.
- If you want to add an off-site inside your service area and you do not currently provide CPST and/or PSR, you do need to complete FNR.
- If you want to add an off-site outside your service area and you do want to provide CPST and/or PSR, you do need to complete FNR. (This would require a new BHS application for a new license.)
- If you want to add an off-site outside your service area and you do not want to provide CPST and/or PSR, you do not need to complete FNR. (This would require a new BHS application for a new license.)
A BHS provider may NOT relocate without prior department approval. Such regulatory non-compliance WILL result in action(s) taken against your BHS license by our department.
Substance Use/Addiction programs must maintain by hire or written agreement, the oversight of those services by a Board Certified Addictionologist
Behavioral Health Service (BHS) Provider:
A facility, agency, institution, person, society, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, group, or other legal entity that provides behavioral health services, such as mental health services, substance abuse/addiction treatment services, or a combination of such services, for adults, adolescents and children and presents itself to thepublic as a provider of behavioral health services.
Attention Residential Substance Use Disorder Facilities:
Effective January 1, 2021 all BHS facilities that provide residential substance abuse/addiction treatment services and that provide treatment for opioid use disorders shall provide the follow:
- Onsite access to at least one form of FDA approved opioid antagonist treatment
- Onsite access to at least one form of FDA approved opioid agonist treatment
*Please reference ACT NO.425: click here
- Behavioral Health Services LAC 48:1 Chapters 56 & 57
- Louisiana Register Vol. 44, No. 12 December 20, 2018- Chapter 41 Expedited Licensing Process for Healthcare Facilities and Providers Licensed by the Department of Health
- Application
- Initial Licensing Checklist
- Annual Licensure Renewal Checklist (UPDATED)**
- Email your licensing packet to: HSS-BH-LICENSING@la.gov
- Financial Viability & Line of Credit R.S.40:2153
- HSS Fee Schedule
- Payment Procedure
- Louisiana State Fire Marshal Plan Review Portal- Ph. 225-925-4920
- Attestation to Plan Review Cautionary Items
- Sanitation Inspections (Public Health)- Ph. 225-342-7550
- Organizational Chart Template
- Providers in Direct Care of Children R.S.15:587.1
- Criminal Background Check Information
- Criminal Background Check Statute Notice
- Criminal Background Check Information, including LSP approved Criminal Background Check Agencies
- ACT 311 regarding Collection of Criminal Background Checks
- Memos
- Removal of Exemption for MHR Providers
- ACT No. 33
- ACT No. 425
- ACT No. 372
- Public Health Request to Re-open form
- OSFM -All Hazard Healthcare Facility Assessment Information
- LDH-HSS Requirement to Re-occupy and Re-open Post-emergengy Events
- Developing an All Hazards Risk Assessment and Emergency Plan
- Memo
- CMS Compliant Templates
- Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA)
- Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA) ESF-8 Tool
Program Manager Contact Information Melissa Jacobs
