If you need care, you have options. Depending on your needs, know where you can go for care in the community. If you think your illness or injury is an emergency or may be life-threatening, please call 911 immediately.
COVID-19, cold and flu care clinics
Go to a Central West Ontario Health Team COVID-19, cold and flu care clinic if you:
- Have moderate cold, flu or COVID-like symptoms (e.g., new or worsening cough, fever and/or chills, shortness of breath)
- Tested negative for COVID-19 and continue to have cold, flu or COVID-like symptoms
- Need to see a doctor for an in-person visit to assess your symptoms
Virtual Urgent Care (available seven days a week)
Use Osler's Virtual Urgent Care for non-life threatening illnesses or injuries:
- Non-life threatening illness or injuries
- Minor injuries including cuts and sprains
- Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or urinary tract infection
- Cough, nasal congestion, cold symptoms
- Questions about COVID-19 symptoms
When necessary, the physician will order diagnostics (e.g., x-ray, CT scan or lab tests), prescribe drugs or treatment, and/or refer you to another specialist and may direct you to the closest Emergency Department.
Urgent Care Centre (open 24 hours a day, every day)
Use the Urgent Care Centre at Peel Memorial for non-life threatening illnesses or injuries:
- Sprains, strains or broken bones
- Allergic reactions or skin rashes
- Asthma attacks
- Minor burns
- Cuts that might need stitches
- Earaches or eye injuries
- Fevers (in infants older than three months), coughs and colds
- Infections
- Nose and throat complaints
Emergency Department (open 24 hours a day, every day)
Go to Brampton Civic or Etobicoke General's Emergency Department for medical emergencies and serious injuries or conditions:
- Chest pain or abdominal pain
- Shortness of breath
- Internal bleeding
- Numbness or weakness in arms or hands
- Major trauma
- Mental health issues
- Fever in infants three months old and younger
- Pregnancy-related emergencies
- Seizures or stroke symptoms
Other resources
- Visit your family doctor (or nurse practitioner), a walk-in clinic or a community urgent care centre for minor illnesses, minor injuries or sprains or long-standing or chronic medical problems.
- Find a family doctor or nurse practitioner through Ontario's Health Care Connect.
- Visit the Central West Healthline to learn more about health care options in our community.
- Use Ontario's health care options tool to find health care services near you. You can also search for options elsewhere in the province, if you have a loved one out of town.
- Ask a registered nurse for health care advice by calling Health Connect Ontario at 1-866-797-0000 / TTY: 1-866-797-0007.
