Table 4.4 Facility size, according to type of care offered, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2008 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
			Regular	Intensive	Day treatment or partial hospitali- zation	Detox	Methadone/ buprenor- phine maintenance		Short- term	Long- term	Detox	Total hospital inpatient	Treat- ment	Detox
Total	41	50	30	12	4	1	121	19	10	16	4	9	6	4
Facility operation
Private non-profit	40	50	31	14	5	1	94	19	10	16	4	8	4	4
Private for-profit	41	42	20	10	2	2	169	20	10	13	3	11	7	5
Local, county, or community govt.	57	65	49	15	6	†	81	20	13	19	6	7	5	3
State government	50	57	36	14	11	3	31	27	21	19	5	21	20	5
Federal government	58	50	35	10	8	†	43	20	14	15	2	4	7	3
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	109	99	60	12	7	1	43	22	17	17	2	4	5	3
Dept. of Defense	30	30	17	9	10	†	‡	19	11	15	‡	†	†	‡
Indian Health Service	28	25	20	2	6	†	32	12	†	11	17	40	‡	40
Other	48	43	10	7	†	2	56	‡	‡	‡	‡	11	9	2
Tribal government	40	38	26	12	†	2	17	10	5	8	5	11	11	5
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	45	60	29	13	4	1	175	19	11	16	4	13	8	6
Mental health services	20	20	20	6	5	1	8	16	7	15	2	6	6	3
Mix of mental health and substance     abuse treatment services	42	45	34	10	5	1	11	18	10	16	3	9	5	4
General health care	30	41	21	12	7	2	30	17	15	15	3	3	1	3
Other/unknown	25	20	16	3	†	1	188	20	6	20	1	4	‡	4
1 Of 13,688 facilities, 1,123 facilities (8 percent) whose client counts were reported by another facility were not asked to respond to this question. Of the remaining 12,565 facilities, 625 facilities (5 percent) that included client counts for other facilities were excluded from tabulations for this table, and thus, tabulations are based on 11,940 facilities that responded to this question for their facility alone.
†  Less than 1.
‡  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), 2008.