Health Care Services

Health Care Connect What is Health Care Connect? Health Care Connect refers Ontarians who don’t have a physician to a family health care provider who may be accepting new patients. How does Health Care Connect work? Unattached patients can call or go online to ontario.ca/healthcareconnect to register with the program. To successfully register, unattached patients must have a valid OHIP card and complete a health questionnaire to determine their need for family health care services. Priority is given to individuals who have greater health needs. Once registered, program participants are assigned to a Care Connector.

The Health Unit provides programs in the following areas: community sanitation, control of infectious diseases, health promotion, health protection, disease and injury prevention, family health, and additional health programs and services prescribed by regulation.

Help people who have long-term physical disabilities get needed equipment and supplies. In some cases, ADP pays up to 75 per cent of the cost of the items like orthopaedic braces, wheelchairs, hearing aids, and breathing aids.