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St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large teaching hospital in western Toronto, Ontario. It is located west of downtown Toronto, along the Lake Ontario shore at the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of St. Joseph order on the site of an orphanage.
The Ministry of Health is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system in the Canadian province of Ontario. [ 1 ] The ministry is responsible to the Ontario Legislature through the minister of health, presently Sylvia Jones since June 24, 2022.
2005 - Toronto Grace Hospital celebrates its 100th birthday at Church and Bloor Streets in downtown Toronto. 2007 - Toronto Grace is renamed the Toronto Grace Health Centre (TGHC), and increases its focus on rehabilitation introducing slow-paced rehab programs. 2010 - TGHC submits its retrofit application to the Ministry of Health.
Introduced by the Progressive Conservative (PC) government of Premier Doug Ford, as the Health Program Initiatives, [4] the agency's mandate is defined in the Connecting Care Act, 2019, [5] and through memorandums of understanding, mandate and strategic priorities letters and other documents from the ministry of health. [1] [6] [7]
As of December 15, 2008, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced that all employees, programs and functions of the Ontario Public Health Laboratories (OPHL) had been transferred to the OAHPP. [4] In early June 2011, the OAHPP announced that it would operate under the name Public Health Ontario beginning on June 11, 2011. [5]
In Ontario, under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, a public health unit (PHU) is an official health agency established by a municipality. [2] PHUs administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development, health education for all age ...
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).
William Osler Health System, formerly William Osler Health Centre, is a hospital network in Ontario, Canada that serves the city of Brampton and the northern portion of the western Toronto district of Etobicoke.