Table 4.15a Facility licensing, certification, or accreditation, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 30, 2007 Number
Facility operation and primary focus	Total		Number of facilities¹
		Any listed agency/ organization	Licensing, certification, or accreditation organization
		Any listed agency/ 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	13,648	12,979	11,100	4,642	5,588	1,009	2,869	2,685	410	666	1,565
Facility operation
Private non-profit	7,907	7,612	6,633	2,889	3,458	612	1,752	1,640	245	457	770
Private for-profit	3,906	3,633	3,196	1,114	1,546	214	568	689	91	128	591
Local, county, or community govt.	887	865	767	409	303	73	152	168	28	41	77
State government	431	420	340	177	196	46	116	107	14	20	58
Federal government	328	298	44	16	38	58	263	60	26	13	42
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	183	176	23	11	24	41	174	56	20	7	11
Dept. of Defense	94	86	7	- -	- -	13	77	- -	3	4	18
Indian Health Service	42	32	12	4	13	3	9	4	3	2	12
Other	9	4	2	1	1	1	3	- -	- -	- -	1
Tribal government	189	151	120	37	47	6	18	21	6	7	27
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	8,360	8,054	7,217	1,572	3,505	426	1,378	1,726	173	287	957
Mental health services	949	886	580	660	359	157	345	171	35	63	69
Mix of mental health and substance abuse treatment services	3,957	3,702	3,084	2,318	1,576	365	1,005	749	166	293	484
General health care	189	175	89	49	85	52	126	19	27	14	20
Other/unknown	193	162	130	43	63	9	15	20	9	9	35
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), 2007.}