Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system and providing services to the province of Ontario. The current minister is Deb Matthews.

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History

The Public Health Act of 1882 created the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, as it was originally known, and which was the first permanent health care administrative body in the Province. In 1925 it became the Department of Health. In 1930, the Department of Hospitals was established under the direction of the first Minister of Health; that Department became a division of the Department of Health in 1934.

Insured hospital services and insured physicians' services, introduced in 1959 and 1966 respectively, were combined under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) in 1972. The Department of Health became the Ministry of Health in 1971, and then the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in June, 1999.[1]

Ministry Organization

Previous Ministers

Note: This is not a complete list

The Ministry of Health was renamed the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in 1999, and subsequently Elizabeth Witmer was the final Minister of Health and the first Minister of Health and Long-Term Care.

Ministers of Health and Long-Term Care

Ministers of Health

  • Elizabeth Witmer (October 10, 1997 — June 17, 1999)
    • Cam Jackson (July 27, 1998 — June 17, 1999) As Minister of Long-Term Care which was subsequently combined with the Minister of Health in 1999
  • Jim Wilson (February 21, 1997 — October 10, 1997) Second time
  • David Johnson (December 9, 1996 — February 21, 1997) Interim Minister of Health
  • Jim Wilson (June 26, 1995 — December 9, 1996) First time
  • Ruth Grier (February 3, 1993 — June 26, 1995)
  • Frances Lankin (April 22, 1991 — February 3, 1993)
  • Evelyn Gigantes (October 1, 1990 — April 18, 1991)
  • Elinor Caplan (September 29, 1987 — October 1, 1990) Mother of David Caplan
  • Murray Elston (June 26, 1985 — September 29, 1987)
  • Philip Andrewes (May 17, 1985 — June 26, 1985)
  • Alan Pope (February 8, 1985 — May 17, 1985)
  • Keith Norton (July 6, 1983 — February 8, 1985)
    • Thomas Wells (October 11, 1983 — December 5, 1983) Second time
  • Lawrence "Larry" Grossman (February 13, 1982 — July 6, 1983)
  • Dennis Timbrell (February 3, 1977 — February 13, 1982)
  • Frank Miller (February 26, 1974 — February 3, 1977) Premier of Ontario, February 08, 1985 — June 26, 1985
  • Richard Potter (February 2, 1972 — February 26, 1974)
  • Albert Lawrence (March 1, 1971 — February 2, 1972)
  • Thomas Wells (August 13, 1969 — March 1, 1971) First time
  • Dr Matthew Dymond (December 22, 1958 — August 13, 1969)
  • Mackinnon Phillips (August 8, 1950 — December 22, 1958)
  • Russell Kelley (January 7, 1946 — August 8, 1950)
  • Reginald Vivian (August 17, 1943 — January 7, 1946)
  • Harold Kirby (October 12, 1937 — August 17, 1943)
  • James Faulkner (July 10, 1934 — October 12, 1937)
  • John Robb (September 16, 1930 — July 10, 1934)
  • Forbes Godfrey (April 17, 1924 — September 16, 1930)

Services and Programs

The Ministry also regulates hospitals and nursing homes; operates psychiatric hospitals and medical laboratories; and co-ordinates emergency health services for the Province.

The Ministry once operated ambulance services outside of major cities in Ontario, but the services were off-loaded to municipalities circa 1998.

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