Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 273 terms: 84 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 189 in our translation, marked as such.
病院
A place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people and which has facilities for admitting 20 or more inpatients, as Article 1-5, paragraph (1) defines it.
医師又は歯科医師が、公衆又は特定多数人のため医業又は歯科医業を行う場所であつて、二十人以上の患者を入院させるための施設を有するもの
診療所
A place where a doctor or dentist practises medicine or dentistry for the public or for a particular group of many people, which either has no facilities for admitting inpatients (and is not a facility for receiving online medical care (オンライン診療受診施設)) or has facilities for 19 or fewer, as Article 1-5, paragraph (2) defines it.
医師又は歯科医師が、公衆又は特定多数人のため医業又は歯科医業を行う場所であつて、患者を入院させるための施設を有しないもの（オンライン診療受診施設であるものを除く。）又は十九人以下の患者を入院させるための施設を有するもの
An association (社団) or foundation (財団) seeking to open a hospital, a clinic where doctors or dentists regularly work, a long-term care health facility (介護老人保健施設) or an integrated facility for medical and long-term care (介護医療院), that has become a legal person under this Act.
A place where a midwife (助産師) does her work for the public or for a particular group of many people, other than work done in a hospital or clinic.
助産師が公衆又は特定多数人のためその業務（病院又は診療所において行うものを除く。）を行う場所
The plan each prefecture sets under Article 30-4, paragraph (1), in line with the basic policy (基本方針) and local conditions, to secure its system for providing medical care (医療提供体制).
A general incorporated association that has received approval for medical coordination promotion (医療連携推進認定) from the prefectural governor under Article 70, paragraph (1), and must use the words 地域医療連携推進法人 (regional medical coordination promotion corporation) in its name.
In Chapter III, the investigation that the administrator (管理者) of a hospital, clinic or birthing center must carry out promptly, as a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides, to find out the cause when a medical accident (医療事故) has occurred.
The prefectural governor's approval under Article 70, paragraph (1) of a general incorporated association whose members are participating corporations, etc. (参加法人等) and others, which sets a medical coordination promotion policy (医療連携推進方針) for hospitals and similar facilities and aims to carry out medical coordination promotion operations (医療連携推進業務).
A bed in a hospital or clinic, other than a psychiatric, infectious disease or tuberculosis bed, mainly for admitting patients who need medical care over a long period.
病院又は診療所の病床のうち、前三号に掲げる病床以外の病床であつて、主として長期にわたり療養を必要とする患者を入院させるためのもの
A medical corporation that the prefectural governor, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, has authorized as meeting the requirements of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) — among them that relatives and others with special ties to any one officer, member or councillor make up no more than a third of the total, that it carries out activities to ensure emergency medical care (救急医療等確保事業) in the prefecture to standards the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets, and that its articles give remaining assets on dissolution to the State, a local government or another social medical corporation — and which may carry on profit-making activities (収益業務).
オンライン診療受診施設
A facility whose founder, as a business, offers it to a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility (介護老人保健施設) or integrated facility for medical and long-term care (介護医療院) where a doctor or dentist who gives online medical care (オンライン診療) works, as the place where patients receive that care.
当該施設の設置者が、業として、オンライン診療を行う医師又は歯科医師の勤務する病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設又は介護医療院に対して、その行うオンライン診療を患者が受ける場所として提供する施設
Doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and the others who work in medical care.
A monetary claim against a social medical corporation, arising from its allotment under the provisions of the Companies Act that Article 54-7 applies and redeemed on the terms decided under Article 54-3, paragraph (1), which it may issue, up to the amount its general meeting of members (社員総会) or board of councillors (評議員会) has resolved, to help carry out activities to ensure emergency medical care (救急医療等確保事業).
第五十四条の七において準用する会社法（平成十七年法律第八十六号）の規定により社会医療法人が行う割当てにより発生する当該社会医療法人を債務者とする金銭債権であつて、次条第一項各号に掲げる事項についての定めに従い償還されるもの
介護老人保健施設
A long-term care health facility as defined in Article 8, paragraph (28) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a facility licensed by the prefectural governor under Article 94, paragraph (1) of that Act to give nursing, care under medical supervision, functional training, other necessary medical care and help with daily life, under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画), to people requiring long-term care (要介護者) who mainly need support to maintain and restore their physical and mental functions so that they can live at home, and whose need for treatment is of the degree a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
介護保険法（平成九年法律第百二十三号）の規定による介護老人保健施設
An integrated facility for medical and long-term care as defined in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a facility licensed by the prefectural governor under Article 107, paragraph (1) of that Act to give medical management, nursing, care under medical supervision, functional training, other necessary medical care and help with daily life, under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画), to people requiring long-term care (要介護者) who mainly need medical care over a long period, and whose need for treatment is of the degree a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
介護保険法の規定による介護医療院
保健所を設置する市
A city that sets up its own public health center (保健所), as named by the Cabinet Order (政令) made under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Community Health Act, whose mayor, like the prefectural governor and the mayor of a special ward (特別区), exercises the powers this Act gives over clinics and birthing centers in the city.
医療提供施設
Hospitals, clinics, long-term care health facilities (介護老人保健施設), integrated facilities for medical and long-term care (介護医療院), pharmacies that dispense medicines and other facilities that provide medical care.
一般病床
A bed in a hospital or clinic that is not a psychiatric bed, an infectious disease bed, a tuberculosis bed or a long-term care bed (療養病床), the kinds listed before it in Article 7, paragraph (2).
病院又は診療所の病床のうち、前各号に掲げる病床以外のもの
The system for providing good-quality, appropriate medical care efficiently, which the basic policy (基本方針) of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 30-3 and each prefecture's medical care plan (医療計画) aim to secure.
In Section 2 of Chapter II, an advertisement or any other display, by documents or any other means, used to attract people to receive medical care, concerning medical or dental practice or a hospital or clinic.
病床の種別
The kinds of bed listed in Article 7, paragraph (2) — psychiatric beds (精神病床), infectious disease beds (感染症病床), tuberculosis beds (結核病床), long-term care beds (療養病床) and general beds (一般病床) — a change in which, as in the number of beds, needs the prefectural governor's permission for a hospital, except where a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) provides otherwise.
A hospital or clinic with long-term care beds (療養病床) or general beds (一般病床), whose administrator (管理者) must report its medical institution functions (医療機関機能) and bed functions (病床の機能) to the prefectural governor under Article 30-13, and report again promptly when those planned for after the reference date (基準日) change.
製造業者
A person licensed to manufacture pharmaceuticals under Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
同法第十三条第一項の医薬品の製造業の許可を受けた者
From Article 36 on, a person licensed to market pharmaceuticals under Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
同法第十二条第一項の医薬品の製造販売業の許可を受けた者
The area, set in its articles of incorporation (定款), in which a general incorporated association seeking approval for medical coordination promotion (医療連携推進認定) promotes coordination of the work of hospitals, clinics and similar facilities, and in whose prefecture (or one of them, where it spans several) it seeks that approval.
The work listed in Article 131, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) that the medical institution work environment evaluation center (医療機関勤務環境評価センター) carries out: evaluating, at an administrator's request, what a hospital or clinic does to shorten its doctors' working hours and other matters a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, advising and guiding administrators on it, and other work to promote shorter hours.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 141 of 2000.
居宅等
A person's home and other places a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, where medical care may be provided as well as in medical facilities.
居宅その他厚生労働省令で定める場所
事業報告書等
The business report, inventory of property, balance sheet, profit and loss statement, report on transactions with related business operators (people with a special relationship to the medical corporation or its officers that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, such as one represented by the chair's spouse) and other documents such an Order sets, which a medical corporation (医療法人) must prepare within two months after the end of each fiscal year (Article 51, paragraph (1)).
The work, set out in Article 70, paragraph (2), done to promote coordination of the work of hospitals, clinics and similar facilities in line with the medical coordination promotion policy (医療連携推進方針) — such as training to improve medical care professionals' skills, supplying the medicines, medical devices and other goods that work needs, and lending funds or other support a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets to help participants that are corporations raise the money for it.
第七十条第二項に規定する医療連携推進業務
The date Act No. 84 of 2006, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In Chapter III, a hospital, clinic or birthing center (助産所).
The work listed in Article 6-16 that the medical accident investigation and support center (医療事故調査・支援センター) carries out, such as organizing and analysing the results of hospitals' medical accident investigations, investigating accidents itself and reporting to the administrator and bereaved family (遺族), training investigators, and promoting the prevention of recurrence.
The vision of the future medical care delivery system in each vision area (構想区域), including the future number of beds needed for each functional classification of beds, that a prefecture sets in its medical care plan under Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (vii).
災害・感染症医療業務従事者
In Section 2-2 of Chapter V, a doctor, nurse or other person with the needed knowledge and skills who has agreed to be sent to an area hit by a disaster or by the spread of an infectious disease to work on securing medical care there, and whom the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has registered under Article 30-12-2 after they met standards a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, such as completing the Minister's training.
In Chapter VII, the prefectural governor who gave a regional medical coordination promotion corporation (地域医療連携推進法人) its approval for medical coordination promotion (医療連携推進認定).
病床の機能
The content of the medical care that a hospital's or clinic's beds provide to patients according to their condition.
病院又は診療所の病床において提供する患者の病状に応じた医療の内容
A medical corporation's handing over all or part of the rights and obligations of its business to another existing medical corporation, which takes them over after the split.
医療法人がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を分割後他の医療法人に承継させること
In Chapter VII, the corporations and other persons listed in Article 70, paragraph (1), other than those running a business for profit, that open hospitals, clinics, long-term care health facilities (介護老人保健施設) or integrated facilities for medical and long-term care (介護医療院), or open or manage facilities for nursing care business, etc. (介護事業等), in the medical coordination promotion area (医療連携推進区域), and are members of a general incorporated association seeking approval for medical coordination promotion (医療連携推進認定).
In Chapter VII, a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility (介護老人保健施設) or integrated facility for medical and long-term care (介護医療院).
Specified regional medical care providers (特定地域医療提供機関), coordinated specified regional medical care providers (連携型特定地域医療提供機関), intensive skill improvement training institutions (技能向上集中研修機関) and specified advanced skill training institutions (特定高度技能研修機関): hospitals and clinics a prefectural governor designates under the supplementary provisions (附則) because their doctors unavoidably work long hours, whose administrators must carry out their plans for shortening doctors' working hours.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 84 of 2006.
オンライン診療
Medical care that a doctor or dentist gives to a patient in a distant place by sending and receiving video and sound over a system linking their computers through a telecommunications line (電気通信回線), so that each can see the other's condition while they talk.
医師又は歯科医師の使用に係る電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。以下この項において同じ。）と患者の使用に係る電子計算機とを電気通信回線で接続した電子情報処理組織を使用し、映像及び音声の送受信により、医師又は歯科医師及び遠隔の地にある患者が相手の状態を相互に認識しながら通話することが可能な方法による診療
The forum a prefecture sets up under Article 30-14, paragraph (1) for each vision area, etc. (構想区域等), to consult with medical bodies, medical insurers (医療保険者) and others concerned on how to reach the future number of beds needed and other matters for achieving the regional medical care vision (地域医療構想).
募集社会医療法人債
The social medical corporation bonds (社会医療法人債) that a social medical corporation allots to those who apply to subscribe for them when it seeks subscribers, and for which it must first decide the matters listed in Article 54-3, paragraph (1), such as their total amount, interest rate and how and when they are redeemed.
当該募集に応じて当該社会医療法人債の引受けの申込みをした者に対して割り当てる社会医療法人債
A creditor who holds social medical corporation bonds (社会医療法人債).
Guidance given in a face-to-face interview, after grasping the person's physical and mental condition through a medical interview (問診) or other means, to suit that condition, which the supplementary provisions (附則) require for doctors working long hours.
問診その他の方法により心身の状況を把握し、これに応じて面接により必要な指導を行うこと
Clinical research carried out according to standards a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
厚生労働省令で定める基準に従つて行う臨床研究
A method using an electronic data processing system (電子情報処理組織) or other information and communications technology.
電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法
In Article 30-12-6 and Article 30-12-8, paragraph (1), an agreement that a prefectural governor concludes with the administrator (管理者) of a hospital or clinic in the prefecture, after consultation and on reaching consensus, to carry out activities to ensure disaster and infectious disease medical care (災害・感染症医療確保事業), covering such matters as the governor's requests to send disaster and infectious disease medical care workers (災害・感染症医療業務従事者) or medical teams (医療隊), how the cost of sending them is borne, the agreement's term and what happens on a breach.
かかりつけ医機能報告対象病院等
In Article 30-18-4, a hospital or clinic that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) names as needed to secure primary care functions (かかりつけ医機能) in its region, whose administrator (管理者) must report to the prefectural governor which of those functions it provides for people needing continuing medical care, such as the elderly with chronic illnesses, and how.
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets under Article 37 for securing a stable supply of supply security pharmaceuticals, etc. (供給確保医薬品等), covering the basic direction, measures to prevent shortages, manufacture or import when a shortage occurs, and other important matters.
One or more medical corporations handing over all or part of the rights and obligations of their business to a new medical corporation set up by the split.
一又は二以上の医療法人がその事業に関して有する権利義務の全部又は一部を分割により設立する医療法人に承継させること
The information on medical corporations' activities and other matters a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects and organizes under Article 69-2, paragraph (3), so that the results of its analysis can be made available to the public promptly over the internet.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 141 of 2000 amended it.
移行計画
A plan for becoming a new medical corporation (新医療法人) that a transitional medical corporation (経過措置医療法人) draws up and submits to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for certification as appropriate under Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2006.
かかりつけ医機能
The function of providing day-to-day medical care in the neighbourhood where people live, measures to prevent illness and other medical care, about which hospitals, clinics and birthing centers report information to the prefectural governor under Article 6-3 so that people can choose where to be treated.
都道府県等
In Articles 6-13 and 6-14, prefectures, cities with a public health center (保健所を設置する市) and special wards (特別区).
A hospital bed for admitting patients with Class I or Class II infectious diseases (other than tuberculosis), novel influenza and similar infectious diseases, or certain designated infectious diseases, as defined in the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (including people treated as such patients), and people showing signs of a new infectious disease.
病院の病床のうち、感染症の予防及び感染症の患者に対する医療に関する法律（平成十年法律第百十四号）第六条第二項に規定する一類感染症、同条第三項に規定する二類感染症（結核を除く。）、同条第七項に規定する新型インフルエンザ等感染症及び同条第八項に規定する指定感染症（同法第四十四条の九の規定により同法第十九条又は第二十条の規定を準用するものに限る。）の患者（同法第八条（同法第四十四条の九において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により一類感染症、二類感染症、新型インフルエンザ等感染症又は指定感染症の患者とみなされる者を含む。）並びに同法第六条第九項に規定する新感染症の所見がある者を入院させるためのもの
The arrangements for sharing roles and coordinating work among hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other medical care providers (医療提供施設).
医療提供施設相互間の機能の分担及び業務の連携を確保するための体制
In Section 2-2 of Chapter V, the activities needed to secure medical care in disasters, and medical care during or at risk of the spread of an infectious disease that may seriously affect people's lives and health, as listed in Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (v)(b) and (c).
The new medical corporation set up in an incorporation-type split (新設分割), which takes over the rights and obligations handed over by the splitting medical corporations.
In Chapter VII, the policy that a general incorporated association seeking approval for medical coordination promotion (医療連携推進認定) sets for promoting coordination of the work of hospitals, clinics, long-term care health facilities (介護老人保健施設) and integrated facilities for medical and long-term care (介護医療院), stating, among other things, its area, how the participating hospitals share roles and coordinate work, and the targets for that.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2006, a medical corporation that is an association (社団) whose articles of incorporation (定款) name, as those to receive its remaining assets, persons chosen from those Article 44, paragraph (5) allows: the State, local governments, or medical corporations or other providers of medical care that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
社団たる医療法人であって、その定款に残余財産の帰属すべき者として同法第四十四条第五項に規定する者を規定しているもの
In Article 6-4-3 and Article 19, paragraph (2), a pregnant woman or a woman in labor.
臨床研修等修了医師
A doctor entered in the register of physicians (医籍) as having completed clinical training (臨床研修) under Article 16-6, paragraph (1) of the Medical Practitioners' Act — and, where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has ordered the doctor to take re-education training (再教育研修) under Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of that Act, also entered under paragraph (2) of that Article as having completed it.
A hospital bed for admitting tuberculosis patients.
病院の病床のうち、結核の患者を入院させるためのもの
構想区域
An area that a prefecture's medical care plan (医療計画) sets under Article 30-4, paragraph (2), item (vii), following standards a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets for promoting the differentiation and coordination of bed functions in the region, for which its regional medical care vision (地域医療構想) is drawn up.
医療隊
In Article 30-12-6 and Article 30-12-8, paragraph (1), a team of disaster and infectious disease medical care workers (災害・感染症医療業務従事者) that a hospital or clinic sends at the prefectural governor's request under an agreement (協定) with the governor.
In Article 30-15, a hospital or clinic subject to a report on medical institution functions, etc. (医療機関機能等報告対象病院等) that has made a report under Article 30-13, paragraph (1).
In Articles 30-18-5 and 30-18-6, outpatient medical care that is particularly needed in an area.
A hospital or clinic opened by a prefecture, a municipality or another body the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates, which Article 31 requires to cooperate in carrying out the agreed matters (協議が調つた事項) and other measures for the medical care the prefecture needs, and in securing doctors when asked.
都道府県、市町村その他厚生労働大臣の定める者の開設する病院又は診療所
Supply security pharmaceuticals (供給確保医薬品) and the raw materials and materials found to be essential for making them, whose stable supply the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare's guidelines under Article 37 aim to secure.
Important supply security pharmaceuticals — supply security pharmaceuticals (供給確保医薬品) that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, after hearing the Health Sciences Council (厚生科学審議会), designates as especially important to supply stably — together with the raw materials and materials found to be essential for making them.
A security that represents a social medical corporation bond (社会医療法人債).
社会医療法人債を表示する証券
A merger of medical corporations in which one survives and takes over all the rights and obligations of the medical corporation that ceases to exist.
医療法人が他の医療法人とする合併であつて、合併により消滅する医療法人の権利義務の全部を合併後存続する医療法人に承継させるもの
The medical corporation that takes over all or part of the rights and obligations of another medical corporation's business in an absorption-type split (吸収分割), with which the splitting corporation concludes the split agreement.
In Chapter VII, nursing care business — providing welfare or health and medical services, such as help with bathing, toileting and meals, functional training, nursing and care management, to people whose physical or mental disabilities make daily life difficult, so that they can live independently as far as they are able — and other business that helps build the community-based integrated care system (地域包括ケアシステム).
In Article 108 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a doctor working at a hospital or clinic whose working hours in a month meet requirements a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, to whom the administrator (管理者) must have face-to-face guidance (面接指導) given.
In the supplementary provisions (附則), the plan for shortening the working hours of the doctors who do the work that makes them work long hours under Article 113, paragraph (1) of those provisions, whose draft must accompany a hospital's or clinic's application to be designated a specified regional medical care provider (特定地域医療提供機関), and which the administrator (管理者) of an institution subject to specified labor management (特定労務管理対象機関) must carry out.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2006, a transitional medical corporation (経過措置医療法人) whose transition plan (移行計画) for becoming a new medical corporation (新医療法人) the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has certified under Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of those provisions.
第二号施行日
The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions of the amending law in question came into force.
This Act as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 49 of 2021.
In Article 6-3, a hospital, clinic or birthing center (助産所).
医療事故
In Chapter III, a death or stillbirth that is caused, or suspected to be caused, by medical care given by a medical care professional working at a hospital, clinic or birthing center, which the administrator (管理者) did not expect, of the kind a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
当該病院等に勤務する医療従事者が提供した医療に起因し、又は起因すると疑われる死亡又は死産であつて、当該管理者が当該死亡又は死産を予期しなかつたものとして厚生労働省令で定めるもの
A hospital bed for admitting people with mental disorders.
病院の病床のうち、精神疾患を有する者を入院させるためのもの
The plan each prefecture sets under Article 30-4, paragraph (1), in line with the basic policy (基本方針) and local conditions, to secure its system for providing medical care (医療提供体制).
In Article 30-12-6, a hospital or clinic that has concluded an agreement (協定) with the prefectural governor, whose administrator (管理者) the governor may ask to report on the sending of disaster and infectious disease medical care workers (災害・感染症医療業務従事者) or medical teams (医療隊) under it.
In Article 30-18-2, a hospital or clinic subject to a report on medical institution functions, etc. (医療機関機能等報告対象病院等) that provides outpatient care, whose administrator (管理者) must report to the prefectural governor the outpatient care it gives that makes intensive use of medical care professionals or of medicines, medical devices or other medical supplies, of the kinds a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, and whether it intends to be a core provider of such care in its region.
In Article 30-18-6, the reasons why a notifying person, etc. (届出者等) in an area designated as especially needing regional outpatient medical care (地域外来医療) does not intend to provide that care, and other matters a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, which the prefectural governor may ask them to explain at the place of consultation (協議の場).
指定管理者として管理する病院等
A hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility (介護老人保健施設) or integrated facility for medical and long-term care (介護医療院) that is a public facility and that a medical corporation manages as its designated manager under Article 244-2, paragraph (3) of the Local Autonomy Act.
Business that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare specifies, which a social medical corporation (社会医療法人) may carry on, as its articles of incorporation (定款) or act of endowment (寄附行為) provide and so long as its medical work does not suffer, to put the income toward running the hospitals and other facilities it opens.
The new medical corporation set up in a consolidation-type merger (新設合併), which takes over all the rights and obligations of the medical corporations that cease to exist.
A medical corporation that hands over all or part of the rights and obligations of its business to another medical corporation in an absorption-type split (吸収分割).
In Article 108 of the supplementary provisions (附則), a doctor who meets the requirements a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets for being suitable to give face-to-face guidance (面接指導) to a physician subject to face-to-face guidance (面接指導対象医師).
経過措置医療法人
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2006, a medical corporation that is an association (社団), set up before that Act came into effect or applied for authorization of its establishment under Article 44, paragraph (1) before then and was authorized afterwards, whose articles of incorporation (定款) either say nothing about who receives its remaining assets or name someone other than the persons Article 44, paragraph (5) allows.
施行日前に設立された社団たる医療法人又は施行日前に医療法第四十四条第一項の規定による認可の申請をし、施行日以後に設立の認可を受けた社団たる医療法人であって、その定款に残余財産の帰属すべき者に関する規定を設けていないもの及び残余財産の帰属すべき者として同条第五項に規定する者以外の者を規定しているもの
平成十八年改正法
Short name, in Articles 1, 7 and 8 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 57 of 2017, for the 2006 Act partially amending the Medical Care Act and other Acts to establish a system that provides good-quality medical care (良質な医療を提供する体制の確立を図るための医療法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 84 of 2006).
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 57 of 2017.
In Chapter III, the bereaved family of a person who died in a medical accident (医療事故), the parents of a fetus stillborn in one, and others a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, to whom the administrator (管理者) must explain matters such an Order sets before reporting the accident.