622210 Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments known and licensed as psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic, medical treatment, and monitoring services for inpatients who suffer from mental illness or substance abuse disorders. The treatment often requires an extended stay in the hospital. These establishments maintain inpatient beds and provide patients with food services that meet their nutritional requirements. They have an organized staff of physicians and other medical staff to provide patient care services. Psychiatric, psychological, and social work services are available at the facility. These hospitals usually provide other services, such as outpatient services, clinical laboratory services, diagnostic X-ray services, and electroencephalograph services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Establishments primarily engaged in providing treatment of mental health and substance abuse illnesses on an exclusively outpatient basis are classified in Industry 621420, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers.
• Establishments referred to as hospitals but primarily engaged in providing inpatient treatment of mental health and substance abuse illnesses with the emphasis on counseling rather than medical treatment are classified in Industry 623220, Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities.
• Establishments referred to as hospitals but primarily engaged in providing residential care for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities are classified in Industry 623210, Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 622210

The Census index assigns these 14 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Alcoholism rehabilitation hospitals
• Children's hospitals, psychiatric or substance abuse
• Detoxification hospitals
• Drug addiction rehabilitation hospitals
• Hospitals for alcoholics
• Hospitals, addiction
• Hospitals, mental (except intellectual and developmental disability)
• Hospitals, psychiatric (except convalescent)
• Hospitals, psychiatric pediatric
• Hospitals, substance abuse
• Mental (except intellectual and developmental disability) hospitals
• Mental health hospitals
• Psychiatric hospitals (except convalescent)
• Rehabilitation hospitals, alcoholism and drug addiction

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 622210

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 622210, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $47 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8610), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 86101Hospital activitiesUK SIC
• 86102Medical nursing home activitiesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.