Article 98Restraint of Advertisement
第九十八条（広告制限）
With regard to a Long-Term Care Health Facility, regardless of documents or any other methods, no person may advertise the Facility, except for the following matters:
介護老人保健施設に関しては、文書その他いかなる方法によるを問わず、何人も次に掲げる事項を除くほか、これを広告してはならない。
matters that display the name, telephone number, and location of a Long-Term Care Health Facility;
介護老人保健施設の名称、電話番号及び所在の場所を表示する事項
names of physicians and nurses who are employed at the Long-Term Care Health Facility;
介護老人保健施設に勤務する医師及び看護師の氏名
in addition to matters listed in the preceding two items, matters as determined by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare;
前二号に掲げる事項のほか、厚生労働大臣の定める事項
other matters approved by the prefectural governor.
その他都道府県知事の許可を受けた事項
The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, with regard to method of advertisement of matters listed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, may specify necessary matters.
厚生労働大臣は、前項第三号に掲げる事項の広告の方法について、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、必要な定めをすることができる。
Article 99Notification of Change
第九十九条（変更の届出等）
An Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, except for matters pertaining to approval pursuant to the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (2), when the domicile of an Establisher of said Long-Term Care Health Facility or other matters as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare are changed, or when it recommences said Long-Term Care Health Facility that was suspended, must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor within ten days pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
An Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, when intending to abolish or suspend said Long-Term Care Health Facility, must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor by one month prior to the date of said abolishment or suspension, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
介護老人保健施設の開設者は、当該介護老人保健施設を廃止し、又は休止しようとするときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その廃止又は休止の日の一月前までに、その旨を都道府県知事に届け出なければならない。
Article 99-2Coordination or Assistance by Prefectural Governors, etc.
第九十九条の二（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助）
A prefectural governor or mayor of a Municipality, when it is determined to be necessary for an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility to smoothly provide the conveniences prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (6), may provide coordination among said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, Establishers of other Long-Term Care Health Facilities, and other relevant persons, or advice and other assistance to said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility and said relevant persons.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in a case when two or more prefectural governors provide coordination or assistance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph for the same Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, when it is determined to be necessary for said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility to smoothly provide the conveniences prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (6), may provide coordination among said prefectural governors, or advice and other assistance to said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility from a wide-area perspective beyond the areas of prefectures.
第百条（報告等）
A prefectural governor or mayor of a Municipality, when it is determined to be necessary, may order an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, a manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, or a physician or other employee (herein referred to as an "Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc.") to report, or to submit or present medical records or other record books and documents, request an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc., to appear, have its personnel ask questions of an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc., or have them enter a Long-Term Care Health Facility, the office of an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, or another place related to the management of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, and inspect the facilities, medical records, record books and documents, or other items thereof.
都道府県知事又は市町村長は、必要があると認めるときは、介護老人保健施設の開設者、介護老人保健施設の管理者若しくは医師その他の従業者（以下「介護老人保健施設の開設者等」という。）に対し報告若しくは診療録その他の帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を命じ、介護老人保健施設の開設者等に対し出頭を求め、又は当該職員に、介護老人保健施設の開設者等に対して質問させ、若しくは介護老人保健施設、介護老人保健施設の開設者の事務所その他介護老人保健施設の運営に関係のある場所に立ち入り、その設備若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。
The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions and inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the mayor of the Municipality that ordered an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc., to report, submit or present, or to appear, or had its personnel ask questions of an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc., or conduct an on-site inspection of the Long-Term Care Health Facility, when it is determined that a disposition pursuant to the provisions of the following Article, Article 102, paragraph (1), Article 103, paragraph (3), or Article 104, paragraph (1) needs to be made with respect to said Long-Term Care Health Facility, must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor, indicating the reasons.
Article 101Restriction on Use of Facility
第百一条（設備の使用制限等）
A prefectural governor, when a Long-Term Care Health Facility no longer possesses the medical care rooms, consultation rooms and functional training rooms, and the facilities determined by Prefectural Ordinance as prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (1), or no longer conforms with the standards concerning facilities and management of a Long-Term Care Health Facility as prescribed in paragraph (3) of the same Article (limited to the part concerning facilities), may, with regard to the Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, restrict or prohibit the use of the whole or a part of said facility for a specified period, or specify a due date and order repair or reconstruction.
第百二条（変更命令）
A prefectural governor, when it is determined that a Manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is inappropriate as a Manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, may order the Establisher of said Long-Term Care Health Facility to change the Manager of the Long-Term Care Health Facility within a period limited by a due date.
都道府県知事は、介護老人保健施設の管理者が介護老人保健施設の管理者として不適当であると認めるときは、当該介護老人保健施設の開設者に対し、期限を定めて、介護老人保健施設の管理者の変更を命ずることができる。
The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, with regard to the affairs pertaining to the authority of a prefectural governor as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, when it determines the urgent necessity to ensure life and the physical safety of a person that may be admitted to a Long-Term Care Health Facility, may order the prefectural governor to conduct the affairs as set forth in the same paragraph.
Article 103Recommendations and Orders on Business Operations
第百三条（業務運営の勧告、命令等）
A prefectural governor, when finding that a Long-Term Care Health Facility falls under any of the cases listed in the following items, may specify a due date and recommend to the Establisher of said Long-Term Care Health Facility that it take the measures specified in each of those items.
都道府県知事は、介護老人保健施設が、次の各号に掲げる場合に該当すると認めるときは、当該介護老人保健施設の開設者に対し、期限を定めて、それぞれ当該各号に定める措置をとるべきことを勧告することができる。
if it fails to satisfy the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or Prefectural Ordinance under Article 97, paragraph (2) with regard to the number of employees engaged in its business: to satisfy said number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or Prefectural Ordinance;
その業務に従事する従業者の人員について第九十七条第二項の厚生労働省令又は都道府県の条例で定める員数を満たしていない場合 当該厚生労働省令又は都道府県の条例で定める員数を満たすこと。
in the case where it does not conform to the standards pertaining to facilities and management of a Long-Term Care Health Facility as prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (3) (limited to the part pertaining to management): to conform to the standards pertaining to facilities and management of said Long-Term Care Health Facility;
in the case where it does not properly provide the convenience prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (6): to properly provide said convenience.
第九十七条第六項に規定する便宜の提供を適正に行っていない場合 当該便宜の提供を適正に行うこと。
A prefectural governor, in a case of providing a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, may provide public notice of the fact that the Establisher of said Long-Term Care Health Facility that is issued said recommendation did not act in compliance with said recommendation within the due date as set forth in the same paragraph.
A prefectural governor, when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility that was issued a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) does not implement the measures pertaining to said recommendation without a justifiable basis, may order the Establisher of said Long-Term Care Health Facility to implement measures pertaining to said recommendation within a period specified by a due date or to suspend said operation for a period of time.
A prefectural governor, when issuing an order pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, must issue public notice of said fact.
都道府県知事は、前項の規定による命令をした場合においては、その旨を公示しなければならない。
With regard to a Long-Term Care Health Facility that provided Long-Term Care Health Facility Service pertaining to an Insurance Benefit, a Municipality, when it is determined that said Long-Term Care Health Facility corresponds to any of the cases listed in the items of paragraph (1), must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor that governs the location of said Long-Term Care Health Facility.
市町村は、保険給付に係る介護保健施設サービスを行った介護老人保健施設について、第一項各号に掲げる場合のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、その旨を当該介護老人保健施設の所在地の都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。
Article 104Rescission of Approval
第百四条（許可の取消し等）
A prefectural governor, in a case that corresponds to any of the following items, may rescind the approval as set forth in Article 94, paragraph (1) pertaining to said Long-Term Care Health Facility or suspend the whole or a part of the effect of said appointment as service provider within the period limited by a due date:
when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility does not commence said operation for six months or more after obtaining approval as set forth in Article 94, paragraph (1) without a reasonable basis;
when a Long-Term Care Health Facility has come to correspond to any of Article 94, paragraph (3), items (iv) through (v)-2, item (x) (excluding when it is one that has a person who corresponds to item (v)-3), or item (xi) (excluding when it is one that has a person who corresponds to item (v)-3);
when it is determined that an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility violates an obligation as prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (7);
when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility committed a crime or act of dishonesty concerning medical business;
介護老人保健施設の開設者に犯罪又は医事に関する不正行為があったとき。
when a Long-Term Care Health Facility is entrusted with an investigation pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5) and submits a false report regarding the result of said investigation;
第二十八条第五項の規定により調査の委託を受けた場合において、当該調査の結果について虚偽の報告をしたとき。
when an Allowance for Long-term care Facility Service is wrongly requested;
施設介護サービス費の請求に関し不正があったとき。
when an Establisher, etc., of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is ordered to report, submit or present medical records or record books and documents pursuant to the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1), but disobeys said order or submits a false report;
介護老人保健施設の開設者等が、第百条第一項の規定により報告又は診療録その他の帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を命ぜられてこれに従わず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, etc. is requested to appear pursuant to the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1) but does not respond or does not reply to questions pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph or submits a false reply, or refuses, interrupts, or interferes with an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, however, provided that this provision does not apply when an employee of a Long-Term Care Health Facility performed said act and the Establisher or manager of said Long-Term Care Health Facility was faithfully providing reasonable care and supervision in order to prevent said act;
介護老人保健施設の開設者等が、第百条第一項の規定により出頭を求められてこれに応ぜず、同項の規定による質問に対して答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の答弁をし、又は同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したとき。ただし、介護老人保健施設の従業者がその行為をした場合において、その行為を防止するため、当該介護老人保健施設の開設者又は管理者が相当の注意及び監督を尽くしたときを除く。
in addition to the cases listed in the preceding items, when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility violates this Act, another Act concerning citizens' health and medical care and public aid as provided by a Cabinet Order, or an Order or disposition of a matter based on these Acts;
in addition to the cases listed in the preceding items, when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility performs a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act concerning In-Home Service, etc.;
in a case when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is a juridical person, when any of said Officer, etc., or said Manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility performs a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act concerning In-Home Service, etc., within five years and the appointment as service provider is rescinded or the whole or a part of the effect of the appointment as service provider is suspended due to said act;
in a case when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility is not a juridical person among those provided by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare as set forth in Article 94, paragraph (3), item (i), a manager of said Provider performs a wrongful or significantly unjustifiable act concerning In-Home Service, etc., within five years and the appointment as service provider is rescinded or the whole or a part of the effect of the appointment as service provider is suspended due to said act.
介護老人保健施設の開設者が第九十四条第三項第一号の厚生労働大臣が定める者のうち法人でないものである場合において、その管理者が許可の取消し又は許可の全部若しくは一部の効力の停止をしようとするとき前五年以内に居宅サービス等に関し不正又は著しく不当な行為をした者であるとき。
With regard to a Long-Term Care Health Facility that conducts an entrusted investigation or provided Long-Term Care Health Facility Service pertaining to an Insurance Benefit pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5), a Municipality, when it determines said Long-Term Care Health Facility corresponds to any provision of the items in the preceding paragraph, must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor that governs the location of said Long-Term Care Health Facility.
市町村は、第二十八条第五項の規定により委託した調査又は保険給付に係る介護保健施設サービスを行った介護老人保健施設について、前項各号のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、その旨を当該介護老人保健施設の所在地の都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。
The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, with regard to the affair that belongs to the authority of the prefectural governor as prescribed in paragraph (1), when it determines the urgent necessity to secure life and the physical safety of a person that may be admitted to the Long-Term Care Health Facility, may order the prefectural governor to conduct the affairs as set forth in the same paragraph.
第百四条の二（公示）
A prefectural governor must, in the following cases, provide public notice of the name or full name of the Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, the location of said Long-Term Care Health Facility, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
都道府県知事は、次に掲げる場合には、介護老人保健施設の開設者の名称又は氏名、当該介護老人保健施設の所在地その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項を公示しなければならない。
when approval has been granted pursuant to the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (1);
第九十四条第一項の規定による許可をしたとき。
when a notification of abolition pursuant to the provisions of Article 99, paragraph (2) has been submitted;
第九十九条第二項の規定による廃止の届出があったとき。
when the approval set forth in Article 94, paragraph (1) has been rescinded, or the whole or a part of the effect of the approval has been suspended, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or Article 115-35, paragraph (6).
前条第一項又は第百十五条の三十五第六項の規定により第九十四条第一項の許可を取り消し、又は許可の全部若しくは一部の効力を停止したとき。
The provisions of Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Medical Care Act (Act No. 205 of 1948) apply mutatis mutandis to an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, the provisions of Article 14-4 and Article 15, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the same Act apply mutatis mutandis to a manager of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, and the provisions of Article 30 of the same Act apply mutatis mutandis to dispositions pursuant to the provisions of Article 101, Article 102, paragraph (1), Article 103, paragraph (3) and Article 104, paragraph (1). In this case, necessary technical replacement of the terms of these provisions is specified by a Cabinet Order.