| The
DASIS Report: Facilities Offering Residential Care
Highlights
- Based on SAMHSA's National Survey
of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) survey of 13,428 facilities in
2000, 27 percent of the nation's treatment facilities offered residential care.
- Most (75 percent) of the residential
facilities were private not-for-profit organizations. Types of payment for
treatment accepted included self pay (84 percent), private health insurance (57
percent), medicaid (39 percent), and medicare (18 percent). About 44 percent
of the residential facilities had contracts with managed care organizations.
- Of the the facilities offering
residential care, 60 percent offered residential care only; while 40 percent offered
residential and some other type or types of care. About 47 percent of the residential
facilities said they offered programs for persons with co-occurring disorders
(substance abuse and mental illness).
- Of
the clients in residential care only facilities, 66 percent were treated for both
alcohol and drug abuse, 21 percent were treated for drug abuse only, and 13 percent
were treated for alcohol only.
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This Short Report, The
DASIS Report: Facilities Offering Residential Care
, is based on the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System
(DASIS), the primary source of national data on substance abuse treatment.
DASIS is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). For
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