Appointment Checklist
Before you leave your house on the day of your appointment, review the checklist below to make sure you come prepared.
Wear Comfortable Clothes and Bring:
- $1.00 and $2.00 coins for the parking garage ($7.00 total). You may be at the Cancer Centre for more than two hours on your first visit.
- Someone to wait with you and support you during your visit.
- Your Grand River Regional Cancer Centre Patient Orientation Resource Guide.
- Your Ontario Health Card.
- The name, address and phone number of your family doctor.
- If you have a drug benefits plan, please bring your card with you.
- The current medications you are taking in their original containers.
- Any vitamins, minerals, herbal supplements you are taking, in their original containers.
- A list of your allergies and sensitivities.
- A notebook and pen to record information.
- A list of questions you may have for the doctor or nurse.
- A drink and/or snack from home. Or you may choose to purchase a snack from the cafeteria or Tim Hortons, both conveniently located on the main level of the Hospital.
- Something to help you pass the time while you wait (a book, knitting, etc.).