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The Department of Health and Welfare was formally established on October 1, 1946, with George Pearson as the inaugural minister. [ 6 ] During the first term of the Gordon Campbell government, a separate Ministry of Health Planning was created (led by Sindi Hawkins ) but that ministry was later merged back into the main ministry. [ 7 ]
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia.PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services, although within British Columbia the First Nations Health Authority is also non-regional and highly dispersed.
Fraser Health was created in December 2001 as part of a province-wide restructuring of health authorities by the then-new BC Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell. It is the merger of three former health regions: Simon Fraser Health Region (SFHR), South Fraser Health Region, and the Fraser Valley Health Region (FVHR).
It was established as one of five geographically based health authorities in 2001 by the Government of British Columbia. [ 2 ] Island Health provides health care to over 850,000 people [ 1 ] over a geographic area of 56,000 sq km. [ 3 ] In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia , Island Health had 96 intensive care unit ...
Interior Health is a regional health authority in British Columbia. It is one of the five publicly-funded regional health authorities, serving the southern Interior region of British Columbia. [ 2 ]
Health regions, also called health authorities, are a governance model used by Canada's provincial and territorial governments to administer and deliver public health care to all Canadian residents. Health care is designated a provincial responsibility under the separation of powers in Canada's federal system .
This is a list of hospitals in British Columbia, grouped by health authority and sorted by hospital name. This list does not include extended care facilities, health ...
The FNHA is part of a First Nations Health Governance Structure in BC that includes the First Nations Health Council and First Nations Health Directors Association. The First Nations Health Authority emerged from a number of Tripartite agreements between BC First Nations, the Province of BC, and the Government of Canada that included the Transformative Change Accord: First Nations Health Plan ...