Table 4.15a Facility licensing, certification, or accreditation, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: 2008 Number
Facility operation and primary focus			Number of facilities1
	Total	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	Joint Commis- sion2	CARF2	NCQA2	COA2	Other State/ local agency/ organization
Total	13,688	13,070	11,159	4,691	5,618	999	2,831	2,803	383	664	1,684
Facility operation
Private non-profit	7,932	7,634	6,658	2,938	3,490	609	1,773	1,759	242	470	827
Private for-profit	4,015	3,778	3,303	1,170	1,569	207	546	687	95	129	653
Local, county, or community govt.	820	803	705	351	280	72	133	152	14	29	82
State government	427	417	325	174	203	45	110	126	12	23	51
Federal government	314	294	57	19	28	60	258	59	17	10	34
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	174	172	26	9	14	38	169	51	15	6	13
Dept. of Defense	93	88	12	2	4	22	77	2	2	4	14
Indian Health Service	44	32	19	7	10	- -	10	6	- -	- -	7
Other	3	2	- -	1	- -	- -	2	- -	- -	- -	- -
Tribal government	180	144	111	39	48	6	11	20	3	3	37
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	8,378	8,089	7,282	1,659	3,504	408	1,392	1,792	157	304	1,048
Mental health services	923	858	538	666	350	160	323	171	32	67	81
Mix of mental health and substance     abuse treatment services	4,052	3,825	3,161	2,288	1,641	370	983	796	169	273	506
General health care	181	172	78	49	85	59	120	28	22	12	13
Other/unknown	154	126	100	29	38	2	13	16	3	8	36
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 Joint Commission - formerly 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), 2008.