Chapter III: Conditions for setting up certain healthcare activities and heavy equipment

The purpose of medical care and rehabilitation is to prevent or reduce the functional consequences, deficiencies and limitations of activity, either as part of the care of patients suffering from chronic pathologies, or prior to or following episodes of acute care, whether these consequences are physical, cognitive, psychological or social. This activity includes diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and preventive, therapeutic education and reintegration activities as part of the patient’s therapeutic…

I.-The diagnostic procedures referred to in this section include, in particular, functional assessments prior to the implementation of the therapeutic plan, the exploration of complications and evaluations during and at the end of the implementation of the therapeutic plan. II.-The therapeutic procedures referred to in this section include, in particular, procedures carried out in sub-acute and chronic situations involving monitoring, medical and nursing care, rehabilitation care, adaptation of the environment…

The holder of the authorisation provides assistance to primary care professionals, other health establishments and the medico-social establishments and services concerned in organising the assessment and evaluation of the patient, drawing up the patient’s therapeutic plan and facilitating referral. Within this framework, the holder may set up telehealth activities and mobile teams.

I.-The medical care and rehabilitation authorisation is exercised according to the following terms and conditions: 1° “Multi-purpose”; 2° “Geriatrics”; 3° “Locomotor”; 4° “Nervous system”; 5° “Cardiovascular”; 6° “Pneumology”; 7° “Digestive system, endocrinology, diabetology, nutrition”; 8° “Burns”; 9° “Addictive behaviours”; 10° “Paediatrics” comprising the following fields: a) “Children and adolescents” section; b) “Young children, children and adolescents” section; 11° “Cancer” section comprising the following sections: a) “Oncology” section; b) “Oncology and…

I.-The holder of the authorisation organises both full inpatient and part-time care. If the holder can only offer one form of care, it offers the other form by means of an agreement with another establishment authorised to do so. II -When the care provided in the establishment can only involve full hospitalisation, an authorisation derogating from I may be granted.

Authorisation for medical care and rehabilitation may only be granted if the holder has, on its own site or by agreement with another structure: 1° For all establishments, whatever the category applied for: a) Access to a scanner and magnetic resonance imaging; b) The possibility of having medical biology analyses carried out; 2° For all establishments applying for the following categories, respectively: a) Access to a CT scanner and magnetic…