MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) — Almost 60 years since it opened, the Southeast Louisiana Hospital — a psychiatric facility that gained national notoriety in 1959 when then-Gov. Earl Long was briefly committed there — is preparing to close down its daily operations.

The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/MQyUm5 ) that the hospital’s closing is part of an $859 million cut to the state’s federal Medicaid program.

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