Table 3.5
Facility size according to type of care offered, by facility ownership/operation and primary focus of facility: March 29, 2002
Median number of clients
Ownership/operation and primary focus Median number of clients per facility1
All facilities1 Type of care offered
Outpatient Residential Hospital inpatient
Total out-patient Regular Intensive Day treatment/ partial
hospitalization
Detox Methadone/ LAAM maintenance Total residen-tial Rehab Detox Total hospital inpatient Rehab Detox
Total  40 45 29 12  4  1 180 18 18     4  8  8  4
Ownership/operation                          
Private non-profit  37 45 30 13  5  1 208 18 18     5  6  6  4
Private for-profit  40 40 20  9  3  2 180 20 20     3 10  8  5
Local, county, or community govt  53 65 42 13  4  1 186 15 15     6  4  3  4
State government  44 60 36 12 14    -- 195 22 22     2 20 20  4
Federal government  58 52 32 12  4  2  82 18 18     2  5 12  4
Dept. of Veterans Affairs 100 81 50 15  3  4  82 20 19     2  5 12  5
Dept. of Defense  26 27 19  8  9    --    --  6  6    --    --  3    --
Indian Health Service  18 25 25  2    -- 13    -- 10 10    -- 10 10 10
Other  35 35 18 15    -- 10    -- 37 37    --    --    --    --
Tribal government  30 33 28  9  1  1   3 12 12     1    --    --    --
Primary focus of facility                          
Substance abuse treatment services  45 60 30 12  3  2 190 19 18     5 11 11  5
Mental health services  20 20 16 10  5    -- 155 12 12    --  7  9  3
General health care  35 40 20 12  4  2 117 14 14     1  4  4  3
Mix of mental health and substance
   abuse treatment services
 37 40 30 10  5    --  71 15 15     4  6  6  4
Other/unknown  30 32 24  9  9  1 148 20 20     2  7  6  5
                           
1 Excludes 1,039 facilities whose client counts were reported by another facility and 678 facilities that included client counts for other facilities.
--   Quantity is zero.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2002.

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