# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": 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: 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2) — address `art-16-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条の二 art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2 **第一項** 地域医療支援病院の管理者は、厚生労働省令の定めるところにより、次に掲げる事項を行わなければならない。 art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1 The administrator of a regional medical care support hospital must undertake the following particulars, pursuant to the provisions of an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該病院の建物の全部若しくは一部、設備、器械又は器具を、当該病院に勤務しない医療従事者の診療、研究又は研修のために利用させること。 art-16-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-1 allowing all or part of the buildings, equipment, instruments, or tools of the relevant hospital to be used by medical care professionals who do not work at the relevant hospital for their practices, research, or training; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 救急医療を提供すること。 art-16-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-2 providing emergency medical care; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 地域におけるかかりつけ医機能の確保のための研修その他の地域の医療従事者の資質の向上を図るための研修を行わせること。 art-16-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-3 carrying out training for ensuring primary care functions in the community and other training to enhance the quality of community medical care professionals; machine translation, not official **四** 第二十二条第二号及び第三号に掲げる諸記録を体系的に管理すること。 art-16-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-4 systematically managing records as listed in Article 22, items (ii) and (iii); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 当該地域医療支援病院に患者を紹介しようとする医師その他厚生労働省令で定める者から第二十二条第二号又は第三号に掲げる諸記録の閲覧を求められたときは、正当の理由がある場合を除き、当該諸記録のうち患者の秘密を害するおそれのないものとして厚生労働省令で定めるものを閲覧させること。 art-16-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-5 when a request to view records listed in Article 22, item (ii) or (iii) has been received from a physician who wishes to refer a patient to the relevant regional medical care support hospital or from other persons as prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, making available for inspection the records which are prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as having no risk of harming patient confidentiality, except where there are justifiable grounds for not doing so; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 他の病院又は診療所から紹介された患者に対し、医療を提供すること。 art-16-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-6 providing medical care to patients referred from other hospitals or clinics; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **七** その他厚生労働省令で定める事項 art-16-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-1/item-7 other particulars as prescribed by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地域医療支援病院の管理者は、居宅等における医療を提供する医療提供施設、介護保険法第八条第四項に規定する訪問看護を行う同法第四十一条第一項に規定する指定居宅サービス事業者その他の居宅等における医療を提供する者（以下この項において「居宅等医療提供施設等」という。）における連携の緊密化のための支援、医療を受ける者又は地域の医療提供施設に対する居宅等医療提供施設等に関する情報の提供その他の居宅等医療提供施設等による居宅等における医療の提供の推進に関し必要な支援を行わなければならない。 art-16-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-2 The administrator of a regional medical care support hospital must provide necessary support concerning the promotion of in-home medical care provision by medical institutions providing in-home medical care, designated in-home service providers pursuant to the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act who undertake in-home nursing under Article 8, paragraph (4) of the same Act, and other persons providing in-home medical care (hereinafter referred to as "in-home medical care providers, etc." in this paragraph), such as supporting close coordination with in-home medical care providers, etc., and providing information concerning in-home medical care providers, etc. to recipients of medical care or medical institutions in the area. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16-2/par-1/item-4: 第二十二条第二号 → 医療法 第二十二条第一項第二号 (Article 22, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-22/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-22/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22/par-1/item-2 - art-16-2/par-1/item-4: 第三号 → 医療法 第二十二条第一項第三号 (Article 22, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-22/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-22/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22/par-1/item-3 - art-16-2/par-1/item-5: 第二十二条第二号 → 医療法 第二十二条第一項第二号 (Article 22, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-22/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-22/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22/par-1/item-2 - art-16-2/par-1/item-5: 第三号 → 医療法 第二十二条第一項第三号 (Article 22, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-22/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-22/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-22/par-1/item-3 - art-16-2/par-2: 介護保険法第八条第四項 → 介護保険法 第八条第四項 (Article 8, paragraph (4)), art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-8/par-4 - art-16-2/par-2: 同法第四十一条第一項 → 介護保険法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-41/par-1 - art-16-2/par-2: この項 → 医療法 第十六条の二第二項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (2)), art-16-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第十六条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-16-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-16-2/par-2 - 医療法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-17/par-1 - 医療法 第二十九条第三項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-29/par-3/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-29/par-3/item-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19