The

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is a part of the

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. It is charged with administration and delivery of

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History

The department was first established in 1918 as the Department of Health and Labour and gradually grew in importance, splitting in two in 1944 with one section becoming the Department of Health. It began to grow rapidly in the 1960s when

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Louis Robichaud Louis Joseph Robichaud (October 21, 1925 – January 6, 2005), popularly known as "Little Louis" or "P'tit-Louis", was the second (but first elected) Acadian premier of New Brunswick, serving from 1960 to 1970. With the Equal Opportunity p ...

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program consolidated jurisdiction for health with the province as opposed to local governments and also with the introduction of public medicine in the same decade. The department eventually came to be named the Department of Health and Community Services as it gained responsibility for new programs such as long-term care in

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s, local

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services and so on. On March 23, 2000 when Premier

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restructured the New Brunswick Cabinet. He split the department with the health delivery sections of the department becoming the Department of Health and Wellness, while the long-term care and community

services joined with other branches of government to form the Department of Family and Community Services. " Wellness" was included in the name of the new department to draw focus to that relatively new

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on which the government intended to focus. On February 14, 2006, it was again split with the Wellness promotion aspects being joined with the Culture and Sport Secretariat to form the new

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Health authorities

The Department of Health funds two health authorities to deliver operational medical services in the province: *

Horizon Health Network Horizon Health Network is one of two health authorities in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the other being Vitalité Health Network. Horizon Health Network delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of New Brunswick to the central ...

Vitalité Health Network Vitalité Health Network is one of two health authorities in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the other being Horizon Health Network. Vitalité Health Network delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of New Brunswick's Department ...

Ministers

¹ Furlong was Minister of Health and Community Services until March 23, 2000 after which he was Minister of Health and Wellness.

External links

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