Your Health Care Options

Your options for immediate and unscheduled care

• For minor problems like coughs and colds, minor injuries, and more long-standing or chronic medical problems, you can get care at a doctor's office, an urgent care centre or a walk-in clinic.
• If you think you have the flu, visit our Influenza page to learn more about it and how to manage it.  
• For more serious problems that require immediate medical attention, you may need to visit an emergency department, an urgent care centre or a walk-in clinic that offers these services. 
• If you have time, consider calling Telehealth Ontario at 1 (866) 797-0000. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• In an emergency call 911.

Resources

• hnhbhealthline: Health Services for Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand, Brant
  (and Burlington)
• Emergency departments 
• Urgent care centres 
• Walk-in medical clinics