Your Care Options

Your choices 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 family care provider’s office, an urgent care centre or a walk-in clinic.
• If you think you have the flu, read our helpful Influenza FAQs to learn more about it and how to manage it.  
• For medical problems which are more serious and require immediate medical attention (e.g., x-rays, laboratory testing or treatment), you may need to visit an emergency department, an urgent care centre or a walk-in clinic that offers these services. Some urgent care centres or walk-in clinics can provide services like sutures and splints. Others cannot.
• If you have time, consider calling Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000. Telehealth Ontario is a free and confidential telephone service that you can call for advice on whether you need to get emergency care or whether another option is right for you. You can call Telehealth Ontario 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• A call to Telehealth Ontario does not replace 911 — that is always the first number you should call in emergency situations.
• You can also call the hospital ER that you are considering going to, to see if they can help you to decide if you need to visit the ER

*The information above is from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

For your convenience we have listed some Burlington area walk in clinics below: