# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第七十条 (Article 70) - 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: 第七十条 (Article 70) — address `art-70` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70 - 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. --- ### 第七十条 art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70 **第一項** 次に掲げる者（営利を目的とする事業を営む者を除く。以下この章において「参加法人等」という。）及び地域において良質かつ適切な医療を効率的に提供するために必要な者として厚生労働省令で定める者を社員とし、かつ、病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設又は介護医療院（以下この章において「病院等」という。）に係る業務の連携を推進するための方針（以下この章において「医療連携推進方針」という。）を定め、医療連携推進業務を行うことを目的とする一般社団法人は、定款において定める当該連携を推進する区域（以下「医療連携推進区域」という。）の属する都道府県（当該医療連携推進区域が二以上の都道府県にわたる場合にあつては、これらの都道府県のいずれか一の都道府県）の知事の認定を受けることができる。 art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1 A general incorporated association that has as its members the following persons (excluding persons engaged in a business for profit; hereinafter referred to as "participating corporations, etc." in this Chapter) and persons specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as persons necessary for efficiently providing high-quality and appropriate medical care in the region, and that has the purpose of establishing policies for promoting coordination of operations pertaining to a hospital, clinic, long-term care health facility, or integrated facility for medical and long-term care (hereinafter referred to as "hospital, etc." in this Chapter) (hereinafter referred to as the "medical coordination promotion policy" in this Chapter) and performing medical coordination promotion operations may obtain approval from the governor of the prefecture to which the area to promote the relevant coordination specified in the articles of incorporation (hereinafter referred to as "medical coordination promotion area") belongs (in the case where the relevant medical coordination promotion area extends over two or more prefectures, any one of these prefectures): machine translation, not official **一** 医療連携推進区域において、病院等を開設する法人 art-70/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1/item-1 a corporation that establishes a hospital, etc. in the medical coordination promotion area; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 医療連携推進区域において、介護事業（身体上又は精神上の障害があることにより日常生活を営むのに支障がある者に対し、入浴、排せつ、食事等の介護、機能訓練、看護及び療養上の管理その他のその者の能力に応じ自立した日常生活を営むことができるようにするための福祉サービス又は保健医療サービスを提供する事業をいう。）その他の地域包括ケアシステムの構築に資する事業（以下この章において「介護事業等」という。）に係る施設又は事業所を開設し、又は管理する法人 art-70/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1/item-2 a corporation that establishes or manages in the medical coordination promotion area a facility or office related to nursing care business (meaning business that provides welfare services or health and medical services to persons with physical or mental disabilities that hinder them from performing daily activities, including care for bathing, excretion, meals, etc., functional training, nursing care and medical treatment management, and other services, to enable them to lead self-reliant daily lives according to their abilities) and other businesses that contribute to the establishment of a community-based integrated care system (hereinafter referred to as "nursing care business, etc." in this Chapter); machine translation, not official **三** 医療連携推進区域において、病院等を開設する者（法人を除く。） art-70/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1/item-3 a person (excluding corporations) that establishes a hospital, etc. in the medical coordination promotion area; or machine translation, not official **四** 医療連携推進区域において、介護事業等に係る施設又は事業所を開設し、又は管理する者（法人を除く。） art-70/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1/item-4 a person (excluding corporations) that establishes or manages a facility or office related to nursing care business, etc. in the medical coordination promotion area. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の医療連携推進業務は、病院等に係る業務について、医療連携推進方針に沿つた連携の推進を図ることを目的として行う次に掲げる業務その他の業務をいう。 art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-2 The medical coordination promotion operations set forth in the preceding paragraph means the following operations and other operations performed for the purpose of promoting coordination of operations pertaining to a hospital, etc. in accordance with the medical coordination promotion policy: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 医療従事者の資質の向上を図るための研修 art-70/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-2/item-1 training to improve the qualities of medical care professionals; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 病院等に係る業務に必要な医薬品、医療機器その他の物資の供給 art-70/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-2/item-2 supplying medicines, medical equipment and other supplies necessary for operations pertaining to a hospital, etc.; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 資金の貸付けその他の参加法人等（前項第三号及び第四号に掲げる者を除く。）が病院等に係る業務を行うのに必要な資金を調達するための支援として厚生労働省令で定めるもの art-70/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-2/item-3 fund lending and other support specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as support for raising funds necessary for a participating corporation, etc. (excluding the persons listed in items (iii) and (iv) of the preceding paragraph) to perform operations pertaining to a hospital, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-70/par-2: 前項 → 医療法 第七十条第一項 (Article 70, paragraph (1)), art-70/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1 - art-70/par-2/item-3: 前項第三号 → 医療法 第七十条第一項第三号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-70/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1/item-3 - art-70/par-2/item-3: 第四号 → 医療法 第七十条第一項第四号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-70/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第三十条の四第十二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-4/par-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-4/par-12 - 医療法 第三十条の十八の五第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-30-18-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-30-18-5/par-4 - 医療法 第七十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-2 - 医療法 第七十条第二項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70/par-2/item-3 - 医療法 第七十条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-2/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-3/par-1/item-1 - 医療法 第七十条の三第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-3/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-3/par-1/item-4 - 医療法 第七十条の三第一項第九号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-3/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-3/par-1/item-9 - 医療法 第七十条の三第一項第十八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-3/par-1/item-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-3/par-1/item-18 - 医療法 第七十条の八第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-8/par-2 - 医療法 第七十条の九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-9/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の十第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-10/par-1 - 医療法 第七十条の十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-70-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-70-14/par-1 - 医療法 附則第十四条第三項（第二条の規定の施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/suppl-4041-89/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4041-89/art-14/par-3 --- ## 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-20261019T151250-008, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19