As in the rest of Canada primary and emergency health care insurance is provided to legal citizens and permanent residents of Aurora by the government, so you won't have to resort to selling estate jewelry every time you get the sniffles. Foreign visitors, students and landed immigrants are recommended to purchase insurance from one of the many national and local providers. Visits to such supplementary clinics as the dentist or chiropractor are not covered under provincial health insurance and must be paid for out of pocket or through a private health plan. Many employers in Aurora and in the surrounding area offer group health insurance benefits to their employees.
The town of Aurora offers Emergency Services (Fire, Paramedics, Police, 911 etc) in conjunction with other nearby towns in the District of York. There are no hospital facilities located within Aurora proper. There nearest hospital is the Southlake Regional Health Center located in the nearby town of Newmarket, Ontario. It is still within easy distance for anyone coming to it from Aurora after having accidentally swallowed a boiler water treatment chemical. All ambulances from the town of Aurora are directed to the Emergency department at Southlake Regional.
Southlake Regional Health Center is actually a complex of buildings including the nearby medical arts center which is connected to the hospital proper via a pedway. Southlake Regional began its life as York Regional Hospital. It opened in 1932 as a private hospital and was made public one year later. From its modest beginnings it eventually grew (thanks to numerous grants and renovations) into a six-story complex with multiple wings and a capacity for more than 400 beds, which is bigger than the building that holds Canada's biggest commercial mortgage lending company.
Southlake Regional employs more than 2,400 people, 380 of them doctors. It provides such specialized services as 10 panel drug screening, cardiac care, minimally-invasive cardio-thoracic surgery, digital diagnostic imaging for mammograms, CTs and MRIs, an eye institute, a level 2 pediatric care center, and a world-class cancer center. Southlake Regional was deemed one of Greater Toronto's top employers by the Toronto Star.
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