Patient & Family Resource Centre

Borrow a book, video, DVD, or CD from our collection
Access our computers to find health information or connect with your family members
Learn about resources in your community
Access health information in other languages
Ask a Librarian, our friendly and professional staff will find up-to-date and reliable information. We are here to help!
Enjoy the library’s quiet area to read or just to sit and relax.

Attend an Educational Workshop!

The Patient & Family Resource Centre offers free educational classes on topics such as using technology to manage your health information or how to keep loved ones safe from infection while visiting the hospital. These sessions are open to all. View current classes and register by calling 416-242-1000 x81200.

If you need help finding a family doctor, you can:

Search on your own for a family doctor

Humber River Hospital keeps a list of family doctors affiliated with our hospital who are accepting new patients. Check the list here.

Use Health Care Connect

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care can help you find a family doctor. For more information visit the Health Care Connect program or call 1-800-445-1822.

Search the College of Physicians and Surgeons website.

If you need medical care while you wait to find a family doctor:

Visit a Walk-in Clinic

Visit an Urgent Care Centre

Call Telehealth Ontario
Call 1-866-797-0000 to get health advice or general health information from a registered nurse.

If you don’t have an OHIP card, you can visit a Community Health Centre.

Patient Education Publications provide instructions on how to prepare for your hospital stay and how to care for yourself at home. You’ll also find information about disease and treatments.

Search the online catalogue for books and videos.

Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center

Access health and medical reference books, consumer health video library, web sites and journals in English and Spanish with information on diseases and conditions, drugs, diagnostics, tests, therapies, treatments and surgeries from. To access the database, use Password: river – Searching tips.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Access 26 e-books on specific areas such as diet and nutrition, cancer, children’s health, medicine, mental health, neurological disorders, surgery, genetics, sexually transmitted diseases. To access the database, use Password: river

Patient Education publications provide you with information about preparing for your stay, your upcoming procedures, diseases and conditions as well as what to do when you go home.

These publications complement the health education you are receiving from your health care providers. Information on this website should not be considered personal medical advice.