Subsidy for Disaster Recovery of Medical Facilities

(1) Overview: This MHLW national subsidy reimburses medical facilities damaged by storms, floods, earthquakes and other abnormal natural phenomena for disaster-recovery construction and equipment costs, within annual budget limits, under the "Subsidy for Disaster Recovery of Medical Facilities Grant Guidelines" (1995, last revised 24 Dec 2020). Niigata Prefecture publishes the program information for local medical facilities. (2) Eligible recipients: Public medical institutions (prefectural, municipal, Japanese Red Cross, Saiseikai, JA Koseiren hospitals/clinics), remote-area clinics, emergency centers, on-duty rotation hospitals, designated emergency hospitals, on-call clinics, holiday/night emergency centers, disaster-base hospitals (core and regional), remote medical hub hospitals, perinatal centers, pediatric emergency hubs, home-medicine hospitals/clinics, cancer/stroke care facilities, kidney-transplant centers, geriatric day-care, joint-use facilities, training schools for nurses/physiotherapists/paramedics/dental hygienists, regional and residency training centers, hospital childcare, nurses' dorms and emergency-medical info centers. National-government, IAA, national-university-corporation and Medical Act §7-2-1 facilities are excluded. (3) Eligible expenses: construction/contract works for damaged portions, medical equipment integrated into the building, instruments over ¥500,000 per unit (¥100,000 for dental), training-school teaching materials. (4) Rate/cap/schedule: standard rate one-half; two-thirds for designated extreme-disaster cases or East-Japan-quake-damaged public medical facilities. Standard caps include emergency center ¥769.1M, core disaster-base ¥677.3M, regional disaster-base ¥447.4M, joint-use ¥388.9M, remote hub ¥229.2M, residency training ¥198.7M, geriatric day-care ¥165.2M, perinatal ¥83.3M, on-duty/designated emergency/home-medicine hospitals ¥80.2M, kidney transplant ¥44.3M, pediatric emergency ¥28.16M, on-call clinics ¥13.14M. Amounts under ¥1,000 per facility are truncated. Applications use Form No.2 to the MHLW Minister by the date notified each year; standard decision time is within 2 months; performance report via Form No.3 within one month of completion or by 10 April of the following year, whichever is earlier.