# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号 - English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準） — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十九条（指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準） — (Standards for Operations of Designated Home-Nursing Services) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79 **第一項** 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。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-1 Standards for operations of a designated home-nursing provider are provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 指定訪問看護事業者は、前項に規定する指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準に従い、高齢者の心身の状況等に応じて適切な指定訪問看護を提供するとともに、自らその提供する指定訪問看護の質の評価を行うことその他の措置を講ずることにより常に指定訪問看護を受ける者の立場に立つてこれを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-2 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項に規定する指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準（指定訪問看護の取扱いに関する部分に限る。）を定めようとするときは、あらかじめ中央社会保険医療協議会の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-3 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). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "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 designated home-nursing prescribed in paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning the treatment of designated home-nursing)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb **第四項** 第七十一条第二項の規定は、前項に規定する事項に関する中央社会保険医療協議会の権限について準用する。 art-79/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-4 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-1 - art-79/par-3: 第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-1 - art-79/par-4: 第七十一条第二項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十一条第二項 (Article 71, paragraph (2)), art-71/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-71/par-2 - art-79/par-4: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第三項 (Article 79, paragraph (3)), art-79/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-3 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十八条第七項（訪問看護療養費） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-78/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-78/par-7 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第二項（指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-2 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第三項（指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七十九条第四項（指定訪問看護の事業の運営に関する基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-79/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-79/par-4 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八十二条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-82/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-82/par-6 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-33/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律), Article 79, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19