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Treatment Focus
You can get treatment for eating disorders at this center, helping you navigate symptoms, build coping tools, and restore your physical health under expert care.
Primary Level of Care
Provides 24/7 medical supervision and intensive treatment in a clinical setting for individuals in crisis or with acute needs, focusing on stabilization and immediate safety
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Treatment Focus
You can get treatment for eating disorders at this center, helping you navigate symptoms, build coping tools, and restore your physical health under expert care.
Primary Level of Care
Provides 24/7 medical supervision and intensive treatment in a clinical setting for individuals in crisis or with acute needs, focusing on stabilization and immediate safety
Provider's Policy
River Oaks Hospital accepts most insurance and managed care plans as well as TRICARE®, V.A. Benefits, Medicare, and Louisiana Medicaid (for most of our inpatient programs). Our staff will be happy to verify insurance benefits or review private payment options.
River Oaks Eating Disorder Treatment Center
River Oaks Eating Disorder Treatment Center
About River Oaks Eating Disorder Treatment Center
The Eating Disorders Treatment Center at River Oaks Hospital provides comprehensive treatment for clients with eating disorders and compulsive disorders. Clients are supported by River Oaks' care team to develop a healthy relationship with food, themselves, and their peers.
River Oaks helps clients to understand the underlying causes and functions of their disorder, offering the support needed to build essential skills for long-term relapse prevention and recovery. Treatment modalities include individual and group therapy, expressive therapy, trauma therapy, nutritional counseling, relapse prevention groups, psychodrama, art therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and meditation. The care team fully supports each client's safety, empowerment, and autonomy.
Accommodations
Situated on a 14-acre campus, River Oaks Hospital is a 126-bed facility located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most major insurance and managed care plans are accepted, as well as Tricare, V.A. Benefits, Medicare, and Medicaid. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission. Accommodations include shared rooms, with two to a room, and a shared bath.
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
You can get treatment for eating disorders at this center, helping you navigate symptoms, build coping tools, and restore your physical health under expert care.
Joint Commission Accredited
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.

Insurance Accepted
Cash Pay Rates
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Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
Who We Treat
Young Adults
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
Men and Women
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Couples Counseling
Partners work to improve their communication patterns, using advice from their therapist to better their relationship and make healthy changes.
Expressive Arts
Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Music Therapy
Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.
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Conditions We Treat
Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a long-term pattern of unhealthy behavior relating to food. Most people with eating disorders have a distorted self-image.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.