Table 4.15a. Facility licensing, certification, or accreditation, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: 2011 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 department	State department of health	Hospital licensing authority	Joint Commis- sion2	CARF2	NCQA2	COA2	Other State/ local agency/ organization
Total	13,720	13,042	11,357	5,040	5,814	999	2,550	3,120	390	713	808
Facility operation
Private non-profit	7,869	7,575	6,727	3,143	3,510	584	1,491	1,911	238	521	393
Private for-profit	4,194	3,905	3,485	1,369	1,800	219	569	854	92	132	292
Local, county, or community govt.	742	724	676	308	234	61	101	140	20	16	24
State government	351	334	286	154	182	49	81	100	19	23	18
Federal government	348	325	47	17	22	78	296	80	17	19	26
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	225	217	18	7	11	51	215	74	11	11	12
Dept. of Defense	89	84	15	6	6	25	72	2	4	6	10
Indian Health Service	30	22	13	4	5	2	8	3	2	2	4
Other	4	2	1	- -	- -	- -	1	1	- -	- -	- -
Tribal government	216	179	136	49	66	8	12	35	4	2	55
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	8,094	7,806	7,115	1,844	3,511	406	1,259	1,906	185	308	450
Mental health services	877	798	517	588	301	137	271	189	25	76	45
Mix of mental health and substance     abuse treatment services	4,385	4,125	3,502	2,521	1,881	415	907	985	161	308	281
General health care	190	168	92	43	69	39	104	29	16	13	17
Other/unknown	174	145	131	44	52	2	9	11	3	8	15
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 was formerly JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations); CARF was formerly Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities; NCQA = National Committee for Quality Assurance; COA = Council on Accreditation.
- -  Quantity is zero.
SOURCE: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2011.