Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Emergency Health Services Group
Other form(s) of name
Ontario. Emergency Services, Laboratories and Drug Programs division
Ontario. Emergency and Special Health Services Division
Ontario. Emergency Health Services Division
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Emergency Health Services Group was established in 1983 under the area of Institutional Health to put in place the building blocks for a comprehensive emergency health services system across the province. This new program was to cover a range of emergency health services initiatives from the training of paramedics to the development of trauma care programs at designated hospitals. During the next few years the group worked to create an integrated pre-hospital and hospital emergency care network in each region of the province.
In 1985 the emergency health services function merged with the laboratories and drug programs and the division was renamed the Emergency Services, Laboratories and Drug Programs division. By 1987 the emergency care programs were separated from the laboratories programs and the area given the name of the Emergency and Special Health Services division.
By mid-1988 the Ministry underwent a reorganization that emphasized three main areas of responsibility--personal health, community health and institutional health. The emergency health services function became the responsibility of the area of Personal Health. By 1990 the area of Personal Health created a branch named Emergency Health Services Branch, to oversee the provision and administration of emergency health services in the province.
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Emergency Health Services Group was responsible for ensuring the provision of emergency health services, that is, the air and land ambulance services, central ambulance communication centres and paramedics, and for organizing the hospital emergency facilities and resources.
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Internal structures/genealogy
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Relationships area
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Ontario Ministry of Health Annual Reports; Government of Ontario Telephone Directories
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Stabile