02.17.12 Although impending budget cuts will result in sharp reductions in available facilities, LSU officials pledged Thursday to maintain services to patients in need of mental health care at the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans. "No one will be turned away or refused care," they said in a prepared statement.

Meanwhile, the New Orleans City Council followed up a three-hour hearing Wednesday on the effect of the service cuts by passing a resolution calling on the state and LSU to seek alternative ways to make budget reductions that will not result in a loss of mental health or substance abuse services and resources in New Orleans.