Standards for operations of a designated home-nursing provider are provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準については、厚生労働大臣が定める。
A designated home-nursing provider must, in accordance with the standards concerning the management of a business of designated home-nursing prescribed in the preceding paragraph, provide appropriate designated home-nursing according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of an elderly person, and always endeavor to provide designated home-nursing from the viewpoint of the person that receives the designated home-nursing by implementing self-evaluation of the quality of the designated home-nursing provided and other measures.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinions of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council in advance, when the Minister intends to specify standards concerning the management of a business of designated home-nursing prescribed in paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning the treatment of designated home-nursing).
The provisions of Article 71, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the authority of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council concerning the particulars prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
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