Table 4.14b
Facility licensing, certification, or accreditation, by type of care offered: March 31, 2005
Percent
Type of care offered Number
of
facilities2		   Percent1
Any listed
agency/
organization		 Licensing, certification, or accreditation organization
State
substance
abuse
agency		 State mental
health dept.		 State public
health dept./
board of health		 Hospital
licensing
authority		 JCAHO3 CARF3 NCQA3 COA3 Other state/
local agency/
organization
Total  13,371  95.3  80.5  30.7  39.1   8.4  23.2  16.3   2.6   4.5  10.9
Outpatient 10,807  95.6  81.2  32.8  37.2   8.3  24.0  16.7   2.6   4.9  10.5
Regular  9,690  95.3  81.8  33.2  35.6   7.2  22.0  15.6   2.5   4.9  10.5
Intensive   5,698  97.1  82.7  31.4  39.7  11.1  28.6  14.1   3.5   4.4   9.8
Detoxification  1,455  96.6  78.1  30.2  47.9  13.1  34.3  35.3   5.7   4.5  13.7
Day treatment/partial hospitalization  1,859  97.8  76.1  34.1  46.7  20.1  42.8  15.2   5.8   3.6  10.7
Methadone maintenance   1,225  99.0  83.9  24.4  54.3   9.6  34.9  49.8   2.9   4.8  14.9
Non-hospital residential   3,678  94.6  81.2  23.2  44.8   5.2  18.4  17.3   2.4   3.3  12.7
Detoxification    905  97.1  86.0  28.4  48.6   7.3  26.7  22.2   2.9   2.3  11.2
Short-term treatment (30 days or less)  1,579  96.9  81.3  25.6  46.4   9.0  28.9  21.8   2.7   2.5  11.8
Long-term treatment (more than 30 days)  3,034  93.6  81.3  22.1  43.7   3.3  13.9  17.0   2.2   3.6  13.8
Hospital inpatient    986  97.6  54.3  41.1  63.4  54.9  80.8  11.5   8.5   1.6   8.5
Detoxification    834  98.2  51.8  42.2  64.4  59.4  86.9  10.7   9.2   1.8   7.6
Treatment    653  97.2  57.4  44.1  68.0  55.3  78.4  10.4   7.7   1.8   9.5
1 Percents sum to more than 100 percent because a facility could report more than one licensing, certification, or accreditation organization.
2 Number of facilities sums to more than the total because a facility could offer more than one type of care.
3 JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; CARF -  Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission; NCQA - National Committee for Quality Assurance; COA - Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services.
SOURCE:  Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2005.

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