For physicians and nurse practitioners

Refer a patient for HBOT

  • ✓ Text message
  • ✓ Ocean eReferral or EMR
  • ✓ Fax
  • ✓ Phone for urgent cases, with a response within 24 hours, often the same day

Any Ontario-licensed physician or nurse practitioner can refer for OHIP-covered conditions. Send what your EMR produces. If anything is missing, our team will follow up with your office.

Four ways to refer

TEXT US

Text message

Text for referral enquiries and assistance. Please send clinical documents through Ocean or fax, not by text.

905-614-0057

Hours: Mon–Fri, 7am–4pm

Text us
FASTEST

Ocean eReferral / EMR

Send from PS Suite, Accuro, OSCAR or Med Access, or find MO2R on the Ocean Healthmap. Status updates come back to you automatically.

Acknowledged: same business day

Open Ocean eReferral

Fax

Fax your EMR referral or our referral form, with supporting documents.

833-440-0202

Acknowledged: within 1 business day

Download referral form
URGENT

Phone

For urgent referrals, for example sudden hearing loss within 14 days, a compromised graft or flap, or acute ischemia. Also to discuss a case.

833-440-0202

Response: within 24 hours, often the same day. Mon–Fri, 7am–4pm.

Call now

After hours, send urgent patients to the nearest emergency department.

What to include

  • Patient name, date of birth, phone and OHIP number
  • Reason for referral and a brief clinical summary
  • Relevant results: imaging, wound cultures, and audiology reports for hearing loss
  • Treatment so far
  • Comorbidities and current medications
  • Recent chest X-ray, ECG or spirometry, if available
  • Your name, phone, fax and OHIP billing number

Missing something? Send what you have. We'll request the rest from your office.

What happens after you refer

  1. We confirm receipt. Same business day for Ocean; within 1 business day for fax.
  2. A hyperbaric physician triages the referral. Urgent cases within 24 hours, often the same day.
  3. We book the consultation directly with your patient.
  4. You receive our consult note with the treatment plan.
  5. Treatment begins at our Mississauga clinic.
  6. You get a progress update during treatment.
  7. You get a discharge summary when treatment ends.

Patient without a referral?

Physician referrals are preferred, but patients can contact us directly. We'll guide them on next steps.

Printable forms

For offices that refer by fax.

Ready to refer or discuss a case?

Led by Dr. A. Wayne Evans, the first physician in Ontario to receive national hyperbaric medicine certification.