Table 4.4
Facility size, according to type of care offered, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2004
Median number of clients
Facility operation and primary focus   Median number of clients per facility1
All
facilities1		 Type of care offered
Total
out-
patient		 Outpatient Total
residen-
tial		 Residential Hospital inpatient
Regular Intensive Day treatment or partial
hospitali-
zation		 Detox Methadone maintenance Short-
term		 Long-
term		 Detox Total
hospital
inpatient		 Treat-
ment		 Detox
Total  40 46 30 12  7  2 213 19 10 16  4  8  7  4
Facility operation      
Private non-profit 37 46 30 13  7  2 231 18  8 16  5  8  5  4
Private for-profit 40 40 23 10  5  2 215 20 10 12  3 11  9  4
Local, county, or community govt. 56 65 48 16 15 - - 200 18 12 15  4  6  4  4
State government 50 65 40 15 17  4 239 27 26 17  4 21 23  7
Federal government 60 53 38 12 11 - - 118 19 14 12  2  3  7  2
Dept. of Veterans Affairs 99 84 55 15 12  2 118 20 15 17  2  3 10  3
Dept. of Defense 33 30 24 10 11 - - ‡ 19 37 ‡ - -  1  1 - -
Indian Health Service 27 27 23  6 - -  1 ‡ 10  5  9 10 - - - - ‡
Other 19  9  9  4 ‡ - - ‡ 56 ‡ 56 ‡  9  7  2
Tribal government 35 36 30 10  4  3  92 10  4 10  5  4  7 - -
Primary focus of facility      
Substance abuse treatment services 45 55 30 13  6  2 223 19 10 16  5 10  7  5
Mental health services 22 22 18 10  5 - - 164 11  4 12  2  7  8  3
Mix of mental health and substance
    abuse treatment services		 40 40 30 12 10  2 140 17  6 15  4  9  7  4
General health care 30 35 28 12  5  3  86 21 14 19  2  6  5  4
Other/unknown 28 27 20 12  6  2 167 18  4 18  1  5 - -  2
1 Of 13,454 facilities, 1,127 facilities whose clients counts were reported by another facility were not asked to respond to this question. Of the remaining 12,327 facilities, 661 facilities that included client counts for other facilities were excluded from tabulations for this table, and tabulations are based on 11,666 facilities that responded to this question for their facility alone.
‡  No facilities in this category.
- -  Quantity is zero.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2004.