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Ministry of Health (Ontario)

Canadian provincial ministry

Field	Value
agency_name	Ministry of Health
type	Ministry
nativename	fr
logo	[[File:Ont-Gov-Shield-Logo.png	150px	class=skin-invert]]
logo_caption	Arms of the Government of Ontario
formed	1882 (current name since June 20, 2019)
preceding1	Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
jurisdiction	Government of Ontario
headquarters	777 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
minister1_name	Sylvia Jones
minister1_pfo	Minister of Health
minister2_name	Vijay Thanigasalam
minister2_pfo	Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions
child1_agency	Ontario Health
child2_agency
keydocument1
website

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Ministry of Health is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The ministry is responsible to the Ontario Legislature through the minister of health, presently Sylvia Jones since June 24, 2022.

Services and programs

Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
Ontario Drug Benefit Program - prescription drug coverage
Community and public health through Public Health Ontario
Ontario Health agency
Health811

The ministry also regulates hospitals, operates some medical laboratories and regulates others, and co-ordinates emergency medical services for the province.

The ministry once operated ambulance services outside of major cities in Ontario, but the services were downloaded to municipalities around 1998.

History

In the early years of Canadian Confederation, health was still considered primarily a municipal rather than provincial matter. The Public Health Act of 1873 permitted the Lieutenant Governor to establish, by proclamation, a temporary "Central Board of Health" to deal with disease if it reached epidemic proportions. However, no proclamations were ever made, and a Central Board was never established.

The Provincial Board of Health was established on March 10, 1882, and it was charged with overseeing the many local health boards. It also assumed the responsibility of dealing with an epidemic, if one should arise. The board reported to the Lieutenant Governor (1882-1903), to the Provincial Secretary (1904-1918), then to the Department of Labour (1919-1924).

In 1924, the Provincial Board of Health was replaced by the Department of Health. In 1930, the department accepted from the Department of the Provincial Secretary the responsibilities for administering Ontario's psychiatric hospitals and inspecting the province's public and private hospitals. Also 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. In 1952, cancer research and the operation of cancer clinics was added to the department's responsibilities. 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 also had responsibility over areas that are no longer associated with health, such as water and sewage functions (prior to 1957), mental retardation facilities and children's services (transferred to the Ministry of Community and Social Services in 1974), and occupational health (transferred to the Ministry of Labour in 1976).

In 1961, the Royal Commission on Health Services, chaired by Justice Emmett Matthew Hall, was appointed, which served as a catalyst for a major overhaul of the department.

In 1972, the Department of Health was renamed the Ministry of Health in a government-wide restructuring. In 1999, the Ministry of Health was renamed the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. In 2011, the Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport was combined with the Ministry. On June 20, 2019, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care was split into the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Long-Term Care. The Ministry of Health retained responsibility for most of the health care system, but the Ministry of Long-Term care is responsible for long-term care homes and placements.

List of ministers

Name	Term of office	Tenure	Name	Term of Office	Tenure	Political party
(Ministry)	Note			colspan="3"	Ministers of Health			Other Ministers						ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Ferguson)	ON	Conservative}};"	Conservative
(Henry)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Hepburn)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Conant)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Nixon)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Drew)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Kennedy)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Frost)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Robarts)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Davis)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Miller)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Peterson)	ON	NDP}};" ;	NDP
(Rae)	ON	PC}};" ;	PC
(Harris)	Minister of Long-Term Care			colspan="3"	Ministers of Health and Long-Term Care	Minister of Health Promotion	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Eves)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(McGuinty)	ON	Liberal}};"	Liberal
(Wynne)	ON	PC}};"	PC
(Ford)			colspan="3"	Ministers of Health	Minister of Long-Term Care
ON	Conservative}};"		Dr. Forbes Godfrey
ON	Conservative}};"		John Robb
ON	Liberal}};"		Dr. James Faulkner
ON	Liberal}};"		Harold Kirby								Concurrently Minister of Public Welfare (October 27, 1942 – May 18, 1943)
ON	PC}};"		Dr. Percy Vivian								Concurrently Minister of Public Welfare
ON	PC}};"		Russell Kelley
ON	PC}};"		Dr. Mac Phillips
ON	PC}};"		Dr. Matthew Dymond
ON	PC}};"		Tom Wells
ON	PC}};"		Albert Lawrence
ON	PC}};"		Dr. Richard Potter
ON	PC}};"		Frank Miller
ON	PC}};"		Dennis Timbrell
ON	PC}};"		Larry Grossman
ON	PC}};"		Keith Norton								Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Tom Wells served as acting minister while Norton was on sick leave (October 11 to December 5, 1983)
ON	PC}};"		Alan Pope
ON	PC}};"		Philip Andrewes
ON	Liberal}};"		Murray Elston
ON	Liberal}};"		Elinor Caplan								Mother of later minister David Caplan (2008–09)
ON	NDP}};"		Evelyn Gigantes								Resigned after inadvertently revealing the name of a Toronto man who had been sent to the United States for drug treatment that wasn't offered in the province.
ON	NDP}};"		Frances Lankin
ON	NDP}};"		Ruth Grier
ON	PC}};"		Jim Wilson
(first instance)					Resigned for ministerial responsibility (his aide improperly disclosed confidential health information to a reporter), reinstated after conclusion of investigation.
ON	PC}};"		David Johnson								Interim Minister, while Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet
ON	PC}};"		Jim Wilson
(second instance)
2 years, 32 days in total
ON	PC}};"		Elizabeth Witmer				Cam Jackson
ON	PC}};"		Elizabeth Witmer
ON	PC}};"		Tony Clement								Helen Johns (February 8, 2001 – April 14, 2002) & Dan Newman (April 15, 2002 – October 22, 2003) served as Associate Ministers
ON	Liberal}};"		George Smitherman				Jim Watson				Smitherman is also Deputy Premier (September 22, 2006 - November 9, 2009)
Margarett Best
ON	Liberal}};"		David Caplan				Son of previous minister Elinor Caplan (1987–90)
ON	Liberal}};"		Deb Matthews				While Deputy Premier (February 11, 2013 - January 17, 2018)
ON	Liberal}};"		Dr. Eric Hoskins								Dipika Damerla served as Associate Minister (Long-Term Care and Wellness) (June 24, 2014 – June 13, 2016)
ON	Liberal}};"		Dr. Helena Jaczek								While Chair of Cabinet
ON	PC}};"		Christine Elliott								While Deputy Premier
ON	PC}};"		Christine Elliott				Merrilee Fullerton		last=D'Mello	first=Colin	date=June 18, 2021	title=Doug Ford shuffles cabinet, brings back minister who violated travel guidance	url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/doug-ford-shuffles-cabinet-brings-back-minister-who-violated-travel-guidance/	access-date=December 24, 2021	website=CTV News}}		Elliott is Deputy Premier;
Michael Tibollo is Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, from to and for
	Rod Philips	June 18, 2021	January 14, 2022
Paul Calandra				While Government House Leader
ON	PC}};"		Sylvia Jones
	Stan Cho				Jones is Deputy Premier;
Michael Tibollo is Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, from to and for
	Natalia Kusendova-Bashta

References

[https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-health Ministry of Health]
"Gassing sport ministry is dumb {{!}} Steve Buffery {{!}} Columnists {{!}} Sports {{!}} London Free Press".
"Ministry of Long-Term Care". Government of Ontario.
D'Mello, Colin. (June 18, 2021). "Doug Ford shuffles cabinet, brings back minister who violated travel guidance".
"Ontario Newsroom".

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