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Headwaters Health Care Centre (Orangeville)

Orangeville, ON · Headwaters Health Care Centre - Headwaters Orangeville · Hospital website ↗
Open 24/7☎ (519) 941-2410
2h 35m
current emergency wait
Medium confidence, scraped from the hospital's public page, updated 14 min ago
Posted by the hospital · 2026-10-27T10:29:21.4833292Z
vs its typical now
−1h 5m
usually about 3h 40m at this hour
calmest hour
9am
typically 3h 9m
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Patients waiting
2
In the ED now
4

When this ER is busiest

Based on our archive, this emergency room is typically busiest around 10pm and quietest around 9am.

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Over the last month its posted wait has typically been about 3h 48m, ranging roughly 2h 40m to 5h 47m.

For a non-urgent visit, a calmer hour usually means a shorter wait; in an emergency, go to the nearest ER no matter the time.

Busiest hours, by day
Average emergency wait at Headwaters Health Care Centre (Orangeville) by day of week and hour of day, in minutes
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Sun295263234221216203213202202204210207218220232227229222222237259285301305
Mon296290269244244213220230220204213204193203216215209216227254280304320310
Tue304293273267250246220224201191191194193207212212209209221246280298306305
Wed307300278259237215212202198190200199194201201204205198202233257273294297
Thu295278264224207191188186184174179182173178193199204200198230250272279266
Fri269250230218205202186185183178190190185200202208208205218232265291304315
Sat301286268254244215202200194182184180174180196207213220233249283302313310

For a non-urgent visit, a calmer hour usually means a shorter wait; in an emergency, go to the nearest ER no matter the time.

Next 12 hours

The wait is about 2h 35m right now. If this ER follows its usual pattern, expect it to climb toward roughly 3h 24m over the next 12 hours.

A projection from this ER's own history, not a guarantee. Live conditions can change quickly.

How reliable is this number?

Over the last 49.6 h, this ER's posted wait refreshes about every 15 min, has ranged 2h 5m–6h 8m.

Measured from our own archive of what this hospital posted. See how we check accuracy

Time to be seen (CIHI)

Across Ontario, 9 in 10 patients were seen by a physician within ~4h 30m.

For comparison, the wait this ER has posted runs a median of ~3h 44m over the stretch we've tracked it, the typical live estimate, where the CIHI figure above is the long-wait tail (the slowest 1 in 10).

Province-wide, no hospital-level figure is published for this site. CIHI, fiscal 2024–2025. Source ↗

If you're admitted (CIHI)

Across Ontario, 9 in 10 admitted patients spent under ~44h 24m in the ED waiting for an inpatient bed.

Most ER visits end in discharge and are far shorter, this is the admitted-patient (boarding) figure. Province-wide, no hospital-level figure for this site. CIHI, fiscal 2024–2025. Source ↗

Typical in Ontario (CIHI)

half of discharged ED visits finish within ~2.3–3.7 h; 9 in 10 within ~8.3 h.

Province-wide total time in the ED (arrival to leaving), Apr–Sep 2025, a ballpark where there's no live wait, not this hospital's posted number.

Nearby emergency rooms

Stevenson Memorial Hospital
Alliston · 31 km away
2h 7m
Georgetown Hospital
Georgetown · 33 km away
1h 36m
Brampton Civic Hospital
Brampton · 33 km away
9h 18m
Groves Memorial Community Hospital
Fergus · 34 km away
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Guelph General Hospital
Guelph · 43 km away
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Humber River Hospital -York Finch
Toronto · 48 km away
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Frequently asked questions

How long is the ER wait at Headwaters Health Care Centre (Orangeville) right now?
As of the latest update, about 2h 35m to be seen at Headwaters Health Care Centre (Orangeville). The figure refreshes roughly every 10 minutes and is the hospital's own live estimate, not a guarantee: an emergency room always treats the sickest patients first, so your own wait can differ.
What does the wait time actually measure?
Usually the estimated time to be seen by a physician, but Canada has no common definition. Quebec publishes stretcher occupancy, New Brunswick length of stay, and others an estimate of the wait to be seen, so we keep each province in its own units and never blend them into one misleading number.
How accurate are these ER wait times?
They are the live estimates each hospital publishes, refreshed about every 10 minutes; we stamp every reading with the moment the hospital said it was current and flag a feed that goes stale. They are estimates, not guarantees, an emergency room always sees the sickest patients first, so your own wait can differ. We also backtest our forecasts against what hospitals post next; see the accuracy page.
Should I go to the ER, or somewhere else?
For anything life-threatening, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room now, never wait for a shorter posted time. For a non-urgent problem, calling 811 (free 24/7 health advice), a walk-in clinic, or a pharmacist is often faster. When in doubt, get checked.

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