What Otaki Group does

Otaki Group (大滝グループ) is a private, physician-led integrated healthcare and welfare organization operated by Medical Corporation Hojinkai (医療法人穂仁会), headquartered in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Founded in 1962 with the opening of Otaki Hospital, the group runs a four-pillar operating model covering Medical, Welfare, Health, and Home Care Support, delivered across 11 facilities in Fukui City and surrounding districts.

Its core assets include Otaki Hospital (a secondary emergency hospital with internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and home visit services), Otaki East Clinic (pediatrics and internal medicine plus self-immune cell cancer therapy in partnership with Seta Clinic Group and MicroCTC testing), and Fukui Rehabilitation Hospital with an attached 100-bed Kaigo medical wing (介護医療院). Technology includes a multi-detector 80-row AI-assisted CT scanner, 1.5T MRI, transnasal endoscopy, bone density measurement, and a Digikar Smart online reservation system. Welfare assets include Fukui Care Center (140 beds including 50-bed dementia wing), two dementia group homes (45 beds), Care House Nikko (35 rooms), 24/7 home care via Jinai Care Service, a home care support office, and Fukui General Health Plaza for health checkups and lifestyle disease prevention. Childcare assets include Nozomi Nursery (capacity 40) and the Fukui City-commissioned Byoji Sick Child Aftercare Nursery.

The group's revenue model is fee-for-service under Japan's national health insurance (国民健康保険・協会けんぽ) and long-term care insurance (介護保険) schemes, supplemented by selective out-of-pocket co-payments and commissioned public services (notably Byoji Daycare from Fukui City). Pricing varies by facility and care level, with group home average monthly co-pay at ~¥140,000. Distribution is direct, facility-based, and referral-driven through a 365-day Regional Medical Cooperation Office, with no digital marketplace or e-commerce channels. The group employs 424 staff (as of April 2025) and is led by Chairman/President Ootaki Norio.

Name

Otaki Group

Legal name

Otaki Group (大滝グループ)

Website

https://otaki-hp.or.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1962

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Otaki Group is a private, physician-led integrated healthcare and welfare organization in Fukui, Japan, operating 11 facilities across medical, rehabilitation, elderly care, home support, and childcare under Medical Corporation Hojinkai. It serves Fukui City patients and elderly residents with services billed through Japan's national health and long-term care insurance systems.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Integrated Healthcare and Welfare Services

NAICS

Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (623312), Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Assisted Living with Enhanced Care / High-Acuity (Aging-in-Place) (HLADABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Multidisciplinary Outpatient Rehab Centers (PT/OT/SLP) (HLADAJAG), Care Transitions Management (Hospital/SNF-to-Home) (HSABAIAC)

Keywords

• Hospital medical services
• Elderly care facilities
• Home care nursing
• Rehabilitation services
• Welfare services

Headquarters

HQ city

Fukui

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Hospital and Clinic Medical Services: Secondary emergency care, inpatient treatment, outpatient consultations, surgical procedures (including cataract, appendectomy, gallbladder removal, hernia, hemorrhoid/anal procedures), rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, and health checkups/dock services.
2. Elderly Care Facility Services: Fees for elderly care facilities including nursing homes, group homes, and daycare/rehabilitation centers, billed through Japan's long-term care insurance (介護保険) system.
3. Home Care and Nursing Services: Visiting nursing, home help, day care, home bathing services, and care management through Jinai Care Service and Fukui Care Center's home care office.
4. Health Promotion and Checkup Services: Health examinations, comprehensive health checkups (人間ドック), and lifestyle disease prevention programs through Fukui Sogo Kenko Plaza.
5. Childcare Services: In-house nursery (Nozomi Hoikuen) for employees' children and sick-child/daycare services commissioned by Fukui City (Byoji Daycare).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Otaki Group operates an integrated healthcare and welfare network centered on Otaki Hospital, delivering secondary emergency care, inpatient treatment, outpatient consultations, surgical procedures, and rehabilitation through three medical facilities (Otaki Hospital, Otaki East Clinic, Fukui Rehabilitation Hospital). It also operates elderly welfare facilities (Fukui Care Center nursing home, two dementia group homes, Care House Nikko assisted living), home care services (Jinai Care Service), health checkups (Fukui General Health Plaza), and childcare services (Nozomi Nursery, Sick Child Aftercare Nursery), all coordinated through a Regional Medical Cooperation Office for seamless patient transitions across care settings.

Product overview

Otaki Group is a comprehensive healthcare and welfare services organization centered on Otaki Hospital, structured around four pillars: Medical (医療), Welfare (福祉), Health (保健), and Home Care Support (在宅支援). The group operates as a unified platform consisting of a general hospital (Otaki Hospital) with secondary emergency, surgical, and rehabilitation capabilities; two clinic/facility brands (Otaki East Clinic and Fukui Rehabilitation Hospital); two nursing care/welfare facilities (Fukui Care Center and Care House Nikko); two dementia group homes (Kentoku and Shimizu); a home care service provider (Jinai Care Service); a health promotion center (Fukui General Health Plaza); and two childcare facilities (Nozomi Nursery and Sick Child Aftercare Nursery). All facilities are coordinated through a Regional Medical Coordination Office to enable seamless patient transitions across medical, welfare, and home care settings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Self-Immune Cell Therapy (自己免疫細胞療法): Cancer treatment service offered at Otaki East Clinic in partnership with Seta Clinic Group, involving extraction and enhancement of immune cells.

Products and services

• Otaki Hospital (大滝病院) The central hospital of Otaki Group, providing secondary emergency care, inpatient treatment, intensive rehabilitation, and home medical care visits. Offers internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, urology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, neurosurgery, and rehabilitation departments for general patients across Fukui City and surrounding areas.
• Otaki East Clinic (大滝東クリニック) A clinic adjacent to Otaki Hospital offering internal medicine and pediatrics services. Also provides self-immune cell therapy for cancer treatment in partnership with Seta Clinic Group and MicroCTC advanced cancer risk testing. Features a web-based online reservation system for outpatient appointments.
• Fukui Rehabilitation Hospital (福井リハビリテーション病院) A rehabilitation hospital designated as a workers' accident insurance facility, providing internal medicine, neurology, cardiovascular medicine, and rehabilitation services. Includes a 47-bed medical care unit and an attached 100-bed Medical Care Facility (介護医療院) for long-term elderly care.
• Fukui Care Center (福井ケアセンター) A nursing care health facility (介護老人保健施設) with 140 inpatient beds (including a 50-bed dementia specialist ward) and 50-person day care capacity. Provides general admission, short-term admission, day rehabilitation, and home care support office services under Japan's long-term care insurance.
• Group Home Kentoku (グループホームけんとく) A three-unit dementia-friendly group home (9 persons per unit, 27 total) providing 24-hour residential care for elderly residents with dementia in a home-like environment, with an average monthly co-pay of approximately ¥140,000.
• Group Home Shimizu (グループホームしみず) A dementia-friendly group home with 2 units and 18 beds (all single rooms) providing residential care for persons with dementia.
• Care House Nikko (ケアハウス日光) A low-cost welfare facility (軽費老人ホーム) for independent elderly aged 60 and over, offering 35 rooms (17 general and 18 special with care services), meals, bathing, health management, and emergency medical access.
• Jinai Care Service (仁愛ケアサービス) A home care service provider operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, offering visiting nursing, visiting care, visiting bath, day care, nursing product sales, housing modifications, and meal delivery services.
• Fukui General Health Plaza (ふくい総合健康プラザ) A health promotion facility offering health examinations, human dock (comprehensive medical checkups), and lifestyle disease prevention programs.
• Nozomi Nursery (のぞみ保育園) An in-house company nursery school (事業所内託児施設) for children of Otaki Group employees from infancy to preschool age. Operates daytime, nighttime, and holiday childcare with a capacity of 40 children.
• Sick Child Aftercare Nursery (病児病後児保育園) A Fukui City-commissioned daycare facility for children from 2 months to 6th grade who are undergoing treatment or recovering from illness, with a capacity of 9 children per day, operating Monday through Friday 8:00-18:00. Pricing is ¥2,000 full day/¥1,000 half day for Fukui City residents and ¥4,360 full day/¥2,180 half day for non-residents.
• Home Visit Medical Services (訪問診療・訪問リハビリテーション) Home medical visits, home rehabilitation, and home nutritional counseling services provided by Otaki Hospital for bedridden patients, those requiring care, and those unable to visit the hospital due to illness, covering Fukui City and parts of Sakai City and Eiheiji Town.

Quantifiable outcome

• Past 5-year new graduate turnover rate within 1 year: 8.0%
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Seta Clinic Group (瀬田クリニックグループ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOtaki Higashi Clinic (大滝東 Clinic) partners with Seta Clinic Group to provide self-immune cell therapy (自己免疫細胞療法) for cancer patients. The treatment involves extracting the patient's immune cells (lymphocytes), culturing and enhancing them at Seta's specialist facility, and reinfusing them. Can be combined with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy for advanced cancer treatment or post-surgery recurrence prevention.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sawayaka Group (さわやかグループ): Japanese multi-facility care home and welfare services operator with a similar mix of group homes, day services, and residential care for the elderly. Comparable to Otaki Group's Fukui Care Center, Group Home Kentoku/Shimizu, and Care House Nikko operations, and is a direct competitor for elderly welfare contracts in regional Japan.
• Seirei Social Welfare Community (聖隷福祉事業団): Long-established Japanese integrated healthcare and welfare network operating hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, group homes, and home-care services. Highly comparable to Otaki's full-service integrated model across hospital, rehab, welfare, and home support in regional Japan.
• Zenkoukai (善光会): Tokyo-based integrated social welfare corporation operating hospitals/clinics, group homes, day services, and home care under a single medical-and-welfare network. Closely mirrors Otaki Group's four-pillar model (medical, welfare, health, home support) with 365-day regional coordination as a stated differentiator.

Broad incumbents

• Kameda Medical Center (亀田総合病院): Large integrated medical center in Chiba with hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation, and welfare-adjacent services. A broader incumbent comparable to Otaki's integrated model but at substantially larger scale and with more advanced medical and digital capabilities.
• JCHO (Japan Community Health Care Organization): Nationwide publicly-affiliated hospital network focused on community healthcare, including rehabilitation and chronic-care services. Comparable in mission and regional secondary-care positioning to Otaki Hospital, though operates at much larger national scale.
• Tokushukai Medical Group (徳洲会): One of Japan's largest hospital groups, operating 70+ hospitals and extensive welfare/home-care services nationwide. A broader incumbent that competes with Otaki Hospital's secondary emergency and Fukui Rehabilitation Hospital on regional inpatient referrals, while also operating welfare facilities overlapping with Otaki's care center and group homes.
• Saiseikai (済生会): Major Japanese social welfare medical organization operating 80+ hospitals plus welfare facilities across Japan. Overlaps with Otaki's hospital, rehabilitation, and elderly welfare footprint, but operates nationally at significantly larger scale and as a broader incumbent.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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