Baton Rouge

Subject: Announcement
Date: September 1, 2005

Contact: Margaret Mitchell, Director, State Office of Mental Health

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Contact Phone: (225) 342-2548

Mental Health/Hurricane Katrina

If you are a displaced resident of Louisiana and are in need of mental
health/medication please contact 225-922-2700. You should be able to get
medication if you have the pill bottle or a prescription.

If you wish to locate adults/children transferred from NOAH and SELH please
contact 225-634-0217

Red Cross Hotline-To search for displaced family members 1-800-256-4733

People looking specifically for help with patients in nursing homes,
hospitals who needed to evacuate call 225-763-5749

For information on your Medicaid benefits in other states:

Pharmacy - 1-800-437-9101

General Medicaid Questions - 1-888-342-6207