Article 118Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan

①A prefecture, with regard to Basic Guidelines, is to provide a plan concerning efficient implementation of Insurance Benefits pertaining to an Insured Long-Term Care Project by specifying three years as one term (hereinafter referred to as "Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan").

②A Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan is to provide the matters listed as follows:

③A Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan is to endeavor to provide for the following matters, in addition to the matters listed in the items of the preceding paragraph:

④A Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan, in addition to matters listed in each item of paragraph (2) and matters listed in each item of the preceding paragraph, may provide the total necessary capacity of persons who utilize Daily Life Activities of a Long-Term Care Patient Admitted to a Combined Specified Facility in each fiscal year by area specified by said prefecture pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), item (i).

⑤A prefecture is to endeavor to prepare a Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan, after analyzing information on the status of implementation of the Insured Long-Term Care Project, such as the results published pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article, taking into account the results of that analysis.

⑥A prefecture, in preparing a Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan, is to pay attention to the importance of effective and efficient provision of medical care and long-term care, taking into account the physical, mental and social characteristics accompanying the aging of residents.

⑦A Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan must be prepared in conjunction with a Prefectural Welfare Plan for Elderly as prescribed in Article 20-9, paragraph (1) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly.

⑧A prefecture is to conduct investigation and analysis regarding the status of implementation of the measures prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) and the status of achievement of the targets prescribed in item (iii) of the same paragraph, and to evaluate the performance of the Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan.

⑨A prefecture is to endeavor to publish the results of the evaluation under the preceding paragraph, and is to report said results and the results of the evaluation under paragraph (8) of the preceding Article by the Municipalities within the prefecture to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑩A Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan must be one for which consistency has been ensured with the prefectural plan prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promotion of Comprehensive Securing of Medical and Long-Term Care in Communities and the medical care plan prescribed in Article 30-4, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act.

⑪A Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan must maintain a harmonious balance with a Prefectural Community Welfare Support Plan as prescribed in Article 108, paragraph (1) of the Social Welfare Act, a Prefectural Plan for Securement of Stable Supply of Elderly Persons' Housing as prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securement of Stable Supply of Elderly Persons' Housing, and plans pursuant to the provisions of other Acts that provide matters concerning health, medical care, welfare, or housing of Persons Requiring Long-Term Care, etc.

⑫A prefecture, when providing or changing a Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan, submit said plan to the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare without delay.