Long Term Health Care Options

Health Care Options Medical Services Directory

Ontarians often don't realize there are alternatives to an emergency room visit, or where to find those options. Your Health Care Options Medical Services Directory is a user-friendly searchable database of walk-in and after hours clinics, urgent care centres, and family health care providers. By entering your postal code you can find out the hours and services available in your community.


contect to doctor

Do you not have a family doctor? By registering with Health Care Connect, you will be assigned a Care Connector to help you to find family health care in your community.


Family health

A Family Health Team brings together different health care providers to deliver the highest possible quality of care for the patient. Family Health Teams are designed to give physicians support from other health care professionals including nurses, nurse practitioners and other professionals who work together to provide enrolled patients with a range of health care options. Family Health Teams provide after hours services to patients who are enrolled with them.


Continue health care

An intermediary between nursing homes and independent living, continuing care, or retirement communities, offer a wide variety of health benefits and services to their inhabitants. These communities are usually all-inclusive, where dwellers receive lodging, meals, social events, varying levels of health care, and sometimes other perks as well.

Entrance fees for these establishments can be quite high (ranging from $10,000 to over 300,000); added to their monthly fees (ranging from $800-4000), and this option can prove to be expensive health care. However, services are guaranteed for the remainder of your life if you choose this option, and if your health falters, you can always be moved to the nursing home portion of their health care facility.

Because of the all-inclusive nature of this kind of health care, you’ll want to read the fine print carefully in your contract. What are all of the recurring and one-time fees? What exactly is covered with those fees? What health care options are, and are not offered? Do you need to purchase extra health insurance to cover your specific care costs? Also don’t forget to check up with the Better Business Bureau about the status of the facility you are interested in; if you plan on living there the rest of your life, you may want to double check it’s reputation, too.