[Nursing Home Business] First Facility "Heartful Cast Kuwana" Pre-Opens ~ Regenerating Unused Wards, Creating a Haven for Those with High Medical Dependency ~

Global Cast Co., Ltd. (Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture; Representative Director: Hideyuki Kawaguchi) has launched a new "Nursing Home Business" that provides 24/7 nursing care and daily living support for highly medically dependent elderly and disabled individuals. Accompanying this, the first facility for this business, the residential nursing home "Heartful Cast Kuwana" in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture, pre-opened on May 8th.

This facility is an initiative to regenerate and utilize unused wards of general hospitals, aiming to solve the social issue of insufficient facilities for highly medically dependent individuals and to utilize idle assets in medical institutions.

■ Background of Business Launch

While the population of late-stage elderly is increasing nationwide, the shortage of nurses and caregivers has led to a severe lack of facilities to meet medical and nursing care needs. In particular, for those who constantly require medical care, such as terminal cancer patients, those with intractable neurological diseases, or severe disabilities, it is not uncommon for them to remain in hospitals even when discharge is possible, simply because no suitable receiving facility can be found. Furthermore, for many medical institutions, the increase in unoccupied beds has become a management challenge, and there is a demand for new models that effectively utilize idle assets while maintaining hospital functions.

Our company will enter the medical and nursing care fields, leveraging the operational structuring capabilities, human resource recruitment capabilities, and DX promotion capabilities cultivated through our BPO business.

■ Features of the First Facility "Heartful Cast Kuwana"

"Heartful Cast Kuwana" aims to provide a safe and secure recuperation environment through the following systems and initiatives:

* 24/7 nursing staff presence
* Collaboration with visiting nurse stations and affiliated medical institutions
* Facility operation utilizing unused wards of general hospitals
* Visualization and standardization of medical and nursing care operations
* Promotion of DX and Proof of Concept (PoC) utilizing actual operational data
* Establishment of an operational system aimed at stable employment for nursing and care staff

*A formal opening ceremony for stakeholders and local medical institutions is scheduled for the end of June. On the day, facility tours will be conducted, and media coverage and photography will be accommodated.

【Facility Overview】

Facility Name: Heartful Cast Kuwana (Official Website: https://heartfull-cast.com/)
Location: 8-264-3 Izumi, Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture
Facility Type: Residential Nursing Home
Official Opening Date: End of June 2026
Operating Company: Global Cast Co., Ltd.

*As mentioned above, the official opening is scheduled for the end of June 2026, but phased move-ins began with the pre-opening on May 8th.

■ Our Vision for This Business

In our BPO business, our company aims to be "an entity that handles socially indispensable tasks in the highest quality and most sustainable manner."

In the medical and nursing care fields, the following social issues are evident:

* Individuals who need medical care but have nowhere to go
* Families who feel the limits of home care
* Medical institutions with unused beds
* Nurses and caregivers who leave their jobs despite their passion

Our company perceives these as "issues in the operational structure of medical and nursing care, which are social infrastructures," and has decided to enter the nursing home business.

■ Future Outlook

Through "Heartful Cast Kuwana," our company will promote the creation of an environment where highly medically dependent individuals can live with peace of mind, and aim to build a sustainable medical and nursing care operational model. Furthermore, we will expand the operational model established at this facility to medical institutions and nursing care facilities nationwide in the future, developing it into a social problem-solving model.

About Global Cast

Global Cast Co., Ltd. has provided sales and marketing support, agency services, and consulting to many clients for profit creation, leveraging its long-accumulated sales know-how and assets, a nationwide sales partner network, and multi-channel sales infrastructure. We also offer our own solutions that solve challenges arising from changing times with cutting-edge solutions and consulting. We operate a Sales Bank business that integrates this sales infrastructure with our own solutions, and a "Life Value Business" that supports next-generation education and lifelong learning.

By quickly delivering new services, technologies, and changing social infrastructure to all regions, we contribute to updating a rapidly changing world. We are a "transformation partner" company that leaves no one behind at the turning point of an era.

Company Profile

Company Name: Global Cast Co., Ltd.
Representative: Hideyuki Kawaguchi, Representative Director
Established: February 20, 2008
Capital: 100,000,000 JPY
Business Activities: Sales Bank Business, Life Value Business