In 2008, there were 527 faith-based substance abuse treatment facilities or facilities affiliated with a religious organization that were not located in or operated by a hospital.
On the survey reference date of March 31, 2008, there was an average of 74 clients enrolled in faith-based facilities compared with an average of 88 clients enrolled in non-faith-based facilities.
Faith-based facilities were more than twice as likely as non-faith-based facilities to provide a halfway house or other transitional housing (24.1 vs. 10.4 percent)and were more likely than non-faith-based facilities to provide free treatment to all clients (10.6 vs. 3.4 percent) or to offer treatment at no charge to clients who could not afford to pay (59.4 vs. 45.2 percent).
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