About designation of medical institution

　Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, or home-visit nursing establishments (hereinafter referred to as medical institutions) and practitioners seeking medical benefits to social security recipients must be designated under the Public Assistance Act. In addition, even after becoming a designated medical institution or designated practitioner, when there is change in name location (name place of residence) of designated medical institution and designated practitioner, or when we abolish business Is required.

About medical assistance

　It is a bookmark that summarizes the outline of the National Assistance Act and an overview of the designated medical institution system. Designated medical institution and designated practitioner, please confirm contents.

Bookmark of a medical institution designated by the National Assistance Act (PDF: 1,183KB)
Bookmark of the practitioner designated by the Public Assistance Act (PDF: 854KB)

（１） Medical institutions
　In principle, the designation of medical institutions located in Yokohama City is performed by the The Mayor of Yokohama (excluding medical institutions established by the government), but at the same time as reporting to the local welfare bureau regarding insurance medical institutions, etc. When we perform notification of designation application about designated medical institution, report of change, notice of abolition, notice of suspension, notice of resumption, and report of decline, we can omit separate report to Motoichi. For more information, please refer to the following link.

About procedure such as designation application of medical institution (PDF: 134KB)

（２） Practitioner
　The designated location changes depending on the practitioner's Address and the location of the practitioner. Please check the following notes before proceeding with the procedure.

Notes on procedures such as designated application of practitioner (PDF: 104KB)

　Please refer to "3 Notifications" for specific procedures.
※As the effect of the designation extends nationwide, if you receive designation in Yokohama City, you do not need to receive the designation of another prefectural governor (other mayor) again when you receive designation in Yokohama City.

（１） About unification of report to Health and Welfare Bureau
From 　July 1, 2023, when submitting a report on insurance medical institutions, etc. to the local welfare bureau and submit various reports on social security designated medical institutions at the same time, omit the separate notification to Motoichi (excluding decline, etc.). This treatment applies to hospitals, clinics, Dentistry and dispensing pharmacies. About home-visit nursing establishment, practitioner, report to Motoichi is necessary as before.

（２） About application in Yokohama-shi electronic application, report system
　（１） About report which does not apply to, we accept various reports by Yokohama-shi electronic application, report system from January 11, 2024. User registration is required to use the service. In addition, if you perform the procedure using the electronic application / notification system, you do not need to submit a paper application form.
　In the use of the Yokohama City Electronic Application and Notification System, you can access it from the following link. When using the service, the medical institution must be registered as a "business" (the practitioner can also be used for "individual" registration). After that, enter "Welfare Protection Act" in the "Keyword Search" field and search. From the search results, select "designated medical institution" or "designated practitioner / midwife" from the search results.

Yokohama City Electronic Application and Notification System (outside site)

　In addition, manual about report of designated medical institution using Yokohama-shi electronic application, report system and designated practitioner, midwife is here. The first registration method is also described, so please also check it.

Electronic application system operation manual (PDF: 1,309KB) for designated medical care and nursing institution application

（３） Regarding written application
　（１） If the report does not apply to the Yokohama City Electronic Application and Notification System cannot be performed, we will accept the written application as before. About documents to submit, please confirm downloading such as the next designated application. In addition, please refer to “4 Documents Submission Deadline” and “5 Document Submission Deadline” for the submission destination and submission deadline.

Download of designated applications (medical care)

　If you wish to submit a document, please mail it to the following address. If there are any deficiencies in the documents, please contact us.

〒２３１－０００５
6-50-10, Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi
City of Yokohama, Health and Social Welfare Bureau Life Support Section, Life Support Section, Life Support Section

[Contact]
TEL ０４５－６７１－４０８８

　Must arrive on the 10th of every month
※Documents that have not arrived by the deadline will be treated as the following month.