Table 4.4 Facility size, according to type of care offered, by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2006 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	Non-hospital residential				Hospital inpatient
		Total out- patient	Regular	Intensive	Day treatment or partial hospitali- zation	Detox	Methadone maintenance	Total residen- tial	Short- term	Long- term	Detox	Total hospital inpatient	Treat- ment	Detox
Total	40	47	27	12	5	- -	140	19	8	16	4	9	8	4
Facility operation
Private non-profit	39	48	30	13	5	- -	127	19	7	16	4	8	5	4
Private for-profit	40	40	20	10	2	2	164	18	7	12	3	15	11	5
Local, county, or community govt.	56	61	46	12	10	- -	172	17	12	16	6	10	4	3
State government	43	50	35	12	9	1	184	21	15	15	2	22	23	4
Federal government	55	49	32	10	9	- -	46	20	17	14	2	3	7	2
Dept. of Veterans Affairs	110	87	45	15	10	- -	48	22	17	19	2	3	8	2
Dept. of Defense	30	27	20	6	9	- -	‡	10	4	- -	10	- -	1	- -
Indian Health Service	28	28	23	6	1	- -	38	9	- -	8	4	3	15	1
Other	28	23	23	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	10	5	5
Tribal government	32	32	25	10	5	- -	3	12	9	10	- -	- -	- -	- -
Primary focus of facility
Substance abuse treatment services	45	56	28	12	4	1	181	20	9	16	4	12	10	6
Mental health services	20	20	15	8	4	- -	8	11	3	10	1	6	8	2
Mix of mental health and substance abuse treatment services	40	40	30	10	6	- -	10	18	6	15	3	9	7	4
General health care	32	40	27	10	6	1	16	17	14	9	2	5	6	3
Other/unknown	22	23	22	7	3	1	- -	16	2	14	- -	3	- -	5
¹ Of 13,771 facilities, 1,054 facilities (8%) whose client counts were reported by another facility were not asked to respond to this question. Of the remaining 12,717 facilities, 661 facilities (5%) that included client counts for other facilities were excluded from tabulations for this table, and thus, tabulations are based on 12,056 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), 2006.