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Mental Health Operations Branch
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The Mental Health Operations Branch was created in 1983 within the Ontario Ministry of Health when the former Psychiatric Hospitals Branch was divided into the Mental Health Planning Branch and the Mental Health Operations Branch. It formed part of the Mental Health Division.
In 1985, when the Mental Health Division was disbanded, the Branch Director reported directly to the Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for Mental Health.
In July 1988 the Mental Health Operations Branch ceased to exist and was replaced by a new Psychiatric Hospitals Branch.
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The Mental Health Operations Branch administrated and operated Ontario's psychiatric hospitals, which provide a range of adult psychiatric services including acute care, rehabilitation, long-term care, alcohol and psychogeriatrics.
Until 1987, the Branch administered the Homes for Special Care program, which provided nursing home and residential home care to former patients of psychiatric hospitals and centres for the developmentally challenged. The program was transferred to the Community Mental Health Branch.
It also administered the Community Mental Health Program, which funded a range of both hospital and community-based mental health services, including out-patient and day care treatment programs, supportive housing, vocational training and detoxification services.
The Branch also provided sessional fees for psychiatrists in general hospitals engaged in community mental health services.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Inventory RG 10
Annual reports of the Ministry of Health, 1973-1982
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Not found in Canadiana
Archivist(s):
Marg McIntyre