Hospital facility record

茨城県立中央病院

A summary of fields in the published hospital facility record. The facility name and other source proper names remain in Japanese unless the source supplies an English or romanized form.

Source-listed English or romanized name: Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital

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Facility overview

Reported beds: 500The total is from the facility survey. The source field does not say whether beds are licensed, staffed, available or occupied. If the field is blank or unspecified, this page does not infer why.
Listed specialties: 36Listing does not establish that appointments are available
Municipality: 笠間市Ibaraki Prefecture
Address: 茨城県笠間市鯉淵６５２８Original source text
Facility website: Open the facility websiteThe external site may be in Japanese.

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Beds & wards

From facility facts to ward-level published reporting.

Matched to official public data

The 2025 report matched 13 ward records. Function categories below count wards; they are not bed counts.

FY2025

Current bed-function categories by ward count

Categories are reported for 13 of 13 matched wards. Wards without a published category are not assigned to a function.

Acute care10 wards
Advanced acute care3 wards

Comparison group

Reported-bed comparison

Comparison viewRegionalSimilar size

Regional context uses the same secondary medical area first and widens to the prefecture when needed.

Hospital
Same secondary medical area · 水戸

Structural peers: 36
Facilities eligible for reported beds: 36
Facilities with observed values: 36

About these comparison conditions

The structural cohort and the facilities eligible for this metric can differ. Facilities without a verified match or an observed value are not treated as zero.

This is descriptive context. It does not establish equivalent clinical services or patient populations, and it is not a measure of quality or superiority.

Peer Engine: hospital-intelligence-peer-engine-v1 · hospital-intelligence-peer-set-v1

Facility reported beds500 beds

Peer median107.5 beds

Peer middle 50 percent55–178 beds

Reported-bed source: MHLW hospital facility information · reference date 2026-06-01 · MHLW source page

Geographic boundary source: e-Stat secondary medical-area mapping · 2024-10-01 · e-Stat source page

This uses a separate dataset and reference date from the FY2025 ward report.

Differences between published reports

No wards met the stable identity criteria across both reports, so a comparison is unavailable.

FY2025 ward report

Function reference date 2025-07-01 · patient flows use the annual period shown separately

13 wards

The em dash marks source 0 values where true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguished. Open a ward for the raw value and source location.

HCUAdvanced acute carePermitted bedsGeneral 28 bedsLong-term care —

Permitted general beds: 28 beds
Permitted long-term care beds: Source shows 0; true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguished
Maximum general beds reported in use: 24 bedsA reported maximum; this is not an occupancy or utilization rate.
Maximum long-term care beds reported in use: Source shows 0; true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguishedA reported maximum; this is not an occupancy or utilization rate.
New ward entries (annual): 1,982 entries
Ward inpatient-days (annual): 6,507 days
Ward exits (annual): 1,976 exitsMay include transfers between wards; it is not a hospital-wide discharge count.
Planned function at the next report date: Reported as plannedShown separately from the current function.

Field-level source locations

Current bed functionbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!P997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Maximum long-term care beds reported in usebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!X997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Maximum general beds reported in usebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!T997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
New ward entries (annual) bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!BG997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Permitted long-term care bedsbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!W997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Permitted general bedsbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!S997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Planned function at the next report datebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!Q997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Ward exits (annual)bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!DT997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Ward inpatient-days (annual)bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!DG997c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b

ICUAdvanced acute carePermitted bedsGeneral 10 bedsLong-term care —

Permitted general beds: 10 beds
Permitted long-term care beds: Source shows 0; true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguished
Maximum general beds reported in use: 10 bedsA reported maximum; this is not an occupancy or utilization rate.
Maximum long-term care beds reported in use: Source shows 0; true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguishedA reported maximum; this is not an occupancy or utilization rate.
New ward entries (annual): 641 entries
Ward inpatient-days (annual): 2,383 days
Ward exits (annual): 636 exitsMay include transfers between wards; it is not a hospital-wide discharge count.
Planned function at the next report date: Reported as plannedShown separately from the current function.

Field-level source locations

Current bed functionbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!P1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Maximum long-term care beds reported in usebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!X1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Maximum general beds reported in usebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!T1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
New ward entries (annual) bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!BG1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Permitted long-term care bedsbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!W1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Permitted general bedsbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!S1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Planned function at the next report datebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!Q1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Ward exits (annual)bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!DT1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Ward inpatient-days (annual)bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!DG1007c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b

PCUAcute carePermitted bedsGeneral 23 bedsLong-term care —

Permitted general beds: 23 beds
Permitted long-term care beds: Source shows 0; true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguished
Maximum general beds reported in use: 21 bedsA reported maximum; this is not an occupancy or utilization rate.
Maximum long-term care beds reported in use: Source shows 0; true zero and unanswered cannot be distinguishedA reported maximum; this is not an occupancy or utilization rate.
New ward entries (annual): 257 entries
Ward inpatient-days (annual): 5,466 days
Ward exits (annual): 254 exitsMay include transfers between wards; it is not a hospital-wide discharge count.
Planned function at the next report date: Reported as plannedShown separately from the current function.

Field-level source locations

Current bed functionbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!P1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Maximum long-term care beds reported in usebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!X1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Maximum general beds reported in usebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!T1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
New ward entries (annual) bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!BG1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Permitted long-term care bedsbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!W1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Permitted general bedsbed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!S1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Planned function at the next report datebed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!Q1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Ward exits (annual)bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!DT1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b
Ward inpatient-days (annual)bed_function_2025_ward_kanto_ibaraki_chiba.xlsx · Sheet1!DG1017c920c622b44f40afb88cc5a45535f28b1325de7d868882fb92c22746ec4f37b

Sources, reference periods and matching

Official data

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan · Bed Function Report Open Data

Official FY2024 release page

Official FY2025 release page

Reference and refresh

Ward function report date: 2025-07-01

Patient-flow period: 2024-04-01/2025-03-31

MedOpen import: 10/6/2026

Release: 2024-2025-v1.1.1 · hospital-intelligence-beds-wards-292cf0fd5ccb

Release manifest SHA-256: 293bf394c431fa07daec71bc3284f74af1a0016100966ecb5efe5b6c0137883d

Facility match

TIER_3_EXACT_COMPOUND

NFKC + whitespace-collapsed exact name; exact 2-digit prefecture; exact 5-digit official municipality code; unique in contemporaneous P13 snapshot

Current P13 identity snapshot: 2026-06-01

Reuse and modification

Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, Bed Function Report Open Data (FY2024/FY2025). Modified and linked to P13 using exact deterministic matching.

MHLW terms of use · PDL 1.0

The source code is not an official P13 identifier. Displayed rows require a unique exact facility name, prefecture and municipality match in the historical P13 snapshot, followed by unchanged current name, address and geography. Match rule: exact-name-prefecture-municipality-temporal/v1.

Ward reports may not cover all facility activity. Permitted beds, reported maximum use, ward entries/exits and inpatient-days are ward-level fields. No facility totals, occupancy rate or average length of stay are calculated.

Outpatient function

1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 (FY2025 reporting vintage)

Linked hospitals only; not nationally representative.

Peer counts are structural / outpatient-eligible / metric observed; middle 50% is Q1–Q3.

Referral rate (annual)· Form 1

79.5%

Published annual rate: annual referred patients ÷ annual initial patients.

水戸 · 36/15/15
Peer median 31.4% · Q1–Q3 10.3%–57.2%

Reverse-referral rate (annual)· Form 1

106.1%

Published annual rate: annual reverse-referred patients ÷ annual initial patients.

水戸 · 36/15/15
Peer median 17.1% · Q1–Q3 4.5%–35.5%

Referral-focused outpatient share (initial visit)· Form 2

64.0%

Published share: referral-focused consultation-days ÷ all initial outpatient consultation-days (not people).

水戸 · 36/17/17
Peer median 29.6% · Q1–Q3 15.2%–44.1%

Referral-focused outpatient share (revisit)· Form 2

38.0%

Published share: referral-focused consultation-days ÷ all revisit outpatient consultation-days (not people).

水戸 · 36/17/17
Peer median 12.2% · Q1–Q3 6.0%–19.3%

Descriptive published values; no quality assessment or recommendation.

Source: MHLW Outpatient Function Reporting · MedOpen English labels.

Professional hospital intelligence

Facility standards

Published records

Explore notifications listed in the official Regional Bureau publication. MedOpen groups them into categories based on Japan’s medical fee schedule.

Distinct notifications listed216

Rows in the source publications218

Snapshot date2026-08-01

We use sections of Japan’s medical fee schedule as categories. These MedOpen analytical groups are not official ministry categories and do not show which services a hospital provides.

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Changes across published snapshots

This compares published snapshots. First observed means first found in the MedOpen archive, not a filing date. A prior item missing from the latest snapshot does not prove withdrawal or cancellation.

First observed in the available MedOpen archive3

Observed in both published snapshots213

Observed previously, not observed in the latest snapshot2

Comparison group and published-record context

Source and reference

Release: facility-standards-notification-20261006-3ccdf50e017e1dfe

Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare · snapshot: 2026-08-01 · published: 2026-09-15 · Official source page (Japanese)

These records show notifications listed in an official Regional Bureau publication. They do not establish care quality, actual billing or care provided, or whether a service is currently available.

Professional hospital intelligence

Clinical activity in published DPC data

2024

This section organizes case counts and clinical categories published in MHLW’s DPC data. DPC publication coverage is limited and does not represent all care delivered by this hospital.

Reference period: 2024-06-01/2025-05-31
MDC categories with published values: 16 / 18
Published count cells: 31

Case counts are shown by MDC and the publication’s surgery grouping. Because some cells are suppressed, no total hospital case count is calculated.

Published case counts by MDC

Official Japanese MDC names are retained. Counts and source-reported shares are separated by the source’s surgery grouping; they are not added into a hospital-wide total.

Surgery: yes in source category

MDC 06 消化器系疾患、肝臓・胆道・膵臓疾患1,399
MDC 05 循環器系疾患458
MDC 11 腎・尿路系疾患及び男性生殖器系疾患379

Surgery: no in source category

MDC 06 消化器系疾患、肝臓・胆道・膵臓疾患997
MDC 04 呼吸器系疾患936
MDC 11 腎・尿路系疾患及び男性生殖器系疾患490

These are the three largest published numeric counts in each source surgery group. Suppressed cells are omitted and are not treated as zero.

View all 18 MDC categories and comparison details

MDC 01神経系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
51Source-reported share: 1.2%
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Surgery: no in source category
273Source-reported share: 6%
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MDC 02眼科系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
293Source-reported share: 6.9%
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Surgery: no in source category
0 or fewer than 10 (suppressed)Source-reported share: —
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MDC 03耳鼻咽喉科系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
153Source-reported share: 3.6%
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Surgery: no in source category
102Source-reported share: 2.2%
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MDC 04呼吸器系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
246Source-reported share: 5.8%
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Surgery: no in source category
936Source-reported share: 20.4%
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MDC 05循環器系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
458Source-reported share: 10.8%
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Surgery: no in source category
374Source-reported share: 8.2%
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MDC 06消化器系疾患、肝臓・胆道・膵臓疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
1,399Source-reported share: 32.9%
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Surgery: no in source category
997Source-reported share: 21.8%
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MDC 07筋骨格系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
245Source-reported share: 5.8%
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Surgery: no in source category
147Source-reported share: 3.2%
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MDC 08皮膚・皮下組織の疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
44Source-reported share: 1%
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Surgery: no in source category
78Source-reported share: 1.7%
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MDC 09乳房の疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
128Source-reported share: 3%
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Surgery: no in source category
11Source-reported share: 0.2%
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MDC 10内分泌・栄養・代謝に関する疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
48Source-reported share: 1.1%
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Surgery: no in source category
162Source-reported share: 3.5%
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MDC 11腎・尿路系疾患及び男性生殖器系疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
379Source-reported share: 8.9%
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Surgery: no in source category
490Source-reported share: 10.7%
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MDC 12女性生殖器系疾患及び産褥期疾患・異常妊娠分娩
Surgery: yes in source category
374Source-reported share: 8.8%
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Surgery: no in source category
322Source-reported share: 7%
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MDC 13血液・造血器・免疫臓器の疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
39Source-reported share: 0.9%
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Surgery: no in source category
284Source-reported share: 6.2%
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MDC 14新生児疾患、先天性奇形
Surgery: yes in source category
19Source-reported share: 0.4%
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Surgery: no in source category
119Source-reported share: 2.6%
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MDC 15小児疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
0 or fewer than 10 (suppressed)Source-reported share: —
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Surgery: no in source category
0 or fewer than 10 (suppressed)Source-reported share: —
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MDC 16外傷・熱傷・中毒
Surgery: yes in source category
312Source-reported share: 7.3%
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Surgery: no in source category
158Source-reported share: 3.5%
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MDC 17精神疾患
Surgery: yes in source category
0 or fewer than 10 (suppressed)Source-reported share: —
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Surgery: no in source category
0 or fewer than 10 (suppressed)Source-reported share: —
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MDC 18その他
Surgery: yes in source category
68Source-reported share: 1.6%
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Surgery: no in source category
115Source-reported share: 2.5%
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The publication rules show a dash for zero or fewer than 10 cases. Suppressed values are not converted to zero or reconstructed from totals.

Published data over time

An FY2023 hospital-level MDC table is published, but MHLW’s FY2023 method uses the FY2022 DPC classification and this release uses the FY2024 classification. Without an official continuity mapping between those classifications, year-over-year changes are not shown.

Source and method

Source owner: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Source file: 001718078.xlsx

Published: 2026-06-30 · Reference period: 2024-06-01/2025-05-31

These values come from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s published DPC data. They describe only the published DPC records and do not represent all hospital activity, care quality or treatment outcomes.

Data terms: MHLW copyright and reuse guidance

Source: 厚生労働省公表資料（加工して作成）

Source records

Data periods can differ by source. Specialty and facility-standard lists are shown only where a verified source-to-facility match is available.

Sources and reference periods

Hospital facility survey

Source agency or portal: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)
Reference period: 1 June 2026
Retrieved: 22 August 2026 at 03:30:08 UTC

Official source (Japanese) · Source overview (Japanese)

Specialty and schedule records

Source agency or portal: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)
Reference period: 1 June 2026
Retrieved: 24 August 2026 at 11:41:20 UTC

Official source (Japanese) · Source overview (Japanese)

Source titles and official records may be in Japanese. Dates and geographic units are shown separately for each source.

茨城県立中央病院

Facility overview

Analyse this hospital

Beds & wards

Current bed-function categories by ward count

Reported-bed comparison

Differences between published reports

FY2025 ward report

Outpatient function

Referral rate (annual)· Form 1

Reverse-referral rate (annual)· Form 1

Referral-focused outpatient share (initial visit)· Form 2

Referral-focused outpatient share (revisit)· Form 2

Facility standards

Notifications listed by fee-schedule category

Changes across published snapshots

Source and reference

Clinical activity in published DPC data

Published case counts by MDC

Surgery: yes in source category

Surgery: no in source category

Published data over time

Source and method

Source records

Sources and reference periods

Hospital facility survey

Specialty and schedule records