hospital
病院（ びょういん ）
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
Article 1-5, paragraph (1) See it in the glossary clinic
診療所（ しんりょうじょ ）
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
Article 1-5, paragraph (2) See it in the glossary long-term care health facility
介護老人保健施設（ かいごろうじんほけんしせつ ）
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
Article 1-6, paragraph (1) See it in the glossary integrated facility for medical and long-term care
介護医療院（ かいごいりょういん ）
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
Article 1-6, paragraph (2) See it in the glossary hospital, etc. managed by a designated administrator
指定管理者として管理する病院等（ していかんりしゃとしてかんりするびょういんとう ）
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.
Article 42, paragraph (1) See it in the glossary profit-making activities
収益業務（ しゅうえきぎょうむ ）
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.
Article 42-2, paragraph (1) See it in the glossary social medical corporations
社会医療法人（ しゃかいいりょうほうじん ）
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).
Article 42-2, paragraph (1) See it in the glossary authorization as a social medical corporation
社会医療法人の認定（ しゃかいいりょうほうじんのにんてい ）
In Article 42-3, paragraph (1) and Article 64-2, paragraph (1), the prefectural governor's authorization of a medical corporation as a social medical corporation (社会医療法人) under Article 42-2, paragraph (1).
Article 42-3, paragraph (1) See it in the glossary