Table 4.13a Facility licensing, certification, or accreditation, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2006 Number
Facility operation and primary focus	Total		Number of facilities1
		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	JCAHO2	CARF2	NCQA2	COA2	Other state/ local agency/ organization
Total	13,771	13,135	11,184	4,665	5,476	1,155	3,017	2,445	304	578	1,647
Facility operation
Private non-profit	8,111	7,822	6,779	2,921	3,489	726	1,880	1,515	186	419	859
Private for-profit	3,807	3,554	3,111	1,097	1,429	240	570	595	68	93	576
Local, county, or community govt.	896	873	767	413	282	76	154	154	19	49	72
State government	441	432	362	181	205	52	123	111	10	11	53
Federal government	331	305	54	19	29	58	279	55	20	3	34
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	186	181	26	9	19	35	180	48	14	- -	7
Dept. of Defense	101	92	11	3	5	19	86	- -	4	3	18
Indian Health Service	42	30	17	7	5	4	11	7	2	- -	9
Other	2	2	- -	- -	- -	- -	2	- -	- -	- -	- -
Tribal government	185	149	111	34	42	3	11	15	1	3	53
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	8,577	8,276	7,392	1,605	3,472	451	1,467	1,614	119	211	1,060
Mental health services	1,050	967	621	751	405	168	381	164	46	69	84
Mix of mental health and substance     abuse treatment services	3,715	3,505	2,918	2,207	1,437	459	998	618	113	282	441
General health care	223	211	111	67	98	73	158	33	21	4	24
Other/unknown	206	176	142	35	64	4	13	16	5	12	38
1 Number of facilities sums to more than the Total column because a facility could report more than one licensing, certification, or accreditation organization.
2 JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; CARF -  Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities; NCQA - National Committee for Quality Assurance; COA - Council on Accreditation.
- -  Quantity is zero.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006.