Table 4.4 Facility size, according to type of care offered, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 30, 2007 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 (non-hospital)				Hospital inpatient
		Total out-patient	Regular	Intensive	Day treatment or partial hospitali-zation	Detox	Methadone/ buprenor- phine maintenance	Total residen- tial	Short- term	Long- term	Detox	Total hospital inpatient	Treat- ment	Detox
Total	42	48	30	11	3	1	132	18	9	15	3	9	6	4
Facility operation
Private non-profit	40	50	32	12	4	1	108	18	8	16	4	8	4	4
Private for-profit	42	42	20	9	2	1	156	20	8	12	2	13	10	5
Local, county, or community govt.	55	63	49	15	7	- -	97	15	6	15	6	10	4	3
State government	49	58	40	15	5	- -	200	24	19	21	4	23	22	7
Federal government	53	44	26	10	8	- -	36	18	13	15	1	3	3	2
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	105	84	50	10	5	1	41	20	15	18	1	3	3	3
Dept. of Defense	25	25	16	9	12	- -	‡	18	10	15	4	1	3	- -
Indian Health Service	20	18	16	6	- -	- -	- -	9	3	8	2	1	- -	1
Other	30	20	20	20	‡	‡	- -	7	‡	7	‡	10	9	1
Tribal government	38	40	30	7	- -	1	18	11	9	8	- -	6	8	1
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	46	58	30	12	2	1	170	19	10	16	4	12	8	6
Mental health services	20	20	20	7	5	- -	2	11	3	12	1	6	5	3
Mix of mental health and substance abuse treatment services	40	42	32	10	5	- -	13	16	6	14	2	9	5	4
General health care	23	30	19	10	5	- -	27	23	15	20	- -	3	5	3
Other/unknown	25	29	22	7	2	3	3	16	3	14	4	4	- -	2
¹ Of 13,648 facilities, 1,093 facilities (8%) whose client counts were reported by another facility were not asked to respond to this question. Of the remaining 12,555 facilities, 665 facilities (5%) that included client counts for other facilities were excluded from tabulations for this table, and thus, tabulations are based on 11,890 facilities that responded to this question for their facility alone.
- - Quantity is zero.
‡ No facilities in this category.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2007.