Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (also known as HEW) was a cabinet level department of the United States government from 1953 until 1979. In 1979, a separate Department of Education was created from this department, and HEW was renamed as the Department of Health and Human Services. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.