Urgent Care appointments are for people who have unexpected but non-life-threatening health concerns that usually require same-day or next day treatment. Urgent care is not appropriate for life-threatening conditions. Urgent care appointments are available for basic illness or injuries such as:
- Sprains or strains of the ankle, knee or shoulder
- Minor cuts and lacerations
- Minor burns or other injuries
- Minor Abdominal Pain
- Urinary tract infections
- Allergies and asthma
- Pink eye
- Bronchitis
- Common cold
- Flu (influenza)
- Ear ache
- Sore throat
- Swollen glands
- Rash and itching
- Diarrhea
- Other unexplained pain or swelling
Urgent Care Appointment Bookings
Weekday Urgent care appointments must be booked by calling the office. Availability differs by day, based on patient bookings.
Afterhours Urgent Care (5-8 pm) appointments are available Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thur alternating between our Leamington and Kingsville offices. Appointments are necessary, please call the office to book.
On Saturdays the ESFHT offers Urgent Care 'walk-in" appointments . No appointment is necessary.
This clinic runs between 8am - 5pm each Saturday, alternating between Leamington and Kingsville locations.
Please click on "Urgent Care Clinic" for a schedule of weekly locations.
A primary goal of health care is to keep people healthy. Preventative care appointments typically involve care to maintain your health. Such appointments are not urgent and can be scheduled with your provider well in advance. Preventative care appointments are appropriate for:
- Annual physical health assessments: Ontario no longer recommends annual health exams, and many of our providers no longer offer them. You can still book an appointment with your physician to go review any exams or tests you may need based on your age and risk factors.
- Vaccinations – infant, child, adult
- PAP/ HPV tests. In 2025, Ontario switched from Pap tests to HPV tests. HPV, or human papillomavirus, is responsible for causing nearly all cervical cancers. Finding the HPV virus can help monitor and detect cervical cancer much better than a pap test. The test looks and feels the very same as the pap test. To learn more, visit Cancer Care Ontario's website.
- Driver physicals
The purpose of a '
Shot Only' appointment is to provide patients with care that requires brief and specific nursing intervention such as:
- Application of a 24 hour blood pressure monitor or holter monitor
- Various injections: allergy shots, routine immunizations for some patients, Vitamin B12 shots, Jubbonti
- Suture/staple removal
- Please call the office for more details
Follow up appointments are used to pull everything together. There was a reason for a test, procedure, prescribed medication, or recommended lifestyle change. A follow-up appointment is the opportunity for the provider to discuss results of testing or assess the patient’s response to a medication or recommendation. Additionally, follow-up appointments can lead to specialist referrals or further assessment and treatments. Reasons to schedule a follow-up appointment:
- Discuss test results
- Review patient response to a new medication or a dosage change
- Discuss referral to a specialist or further diagnostic testing
- Discuss goals of care/answer patient questions