Ontario Waits
All surgeries and scans

Esophageal/diaphragm (benign)

Ontario average, April to June 2026

129 days

51 days to see the surgeon, then 78 days to surgery

Time for tests between the two is not tracked. How these numbers work

Ontario Health reports this one over a longer period, not month by month. Every hospital below covers the same period.

Near L8N 4A6, Hamilton

Shortest wait within 25 km

St. Joseph's Health Care System - Hamilton

Hamilton · under 1 km

103 days

26 days shorter than the Ontario average.
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What you can do: ask your family doctor or surgeon about a referral to a hospital with a shorter wait.

1 hospital within 25 km

Only 1 within 25 km.

Total days at each hospital. Green: the three shortest in this list. Pick a pin for details.

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  1. St. Joseph's Health Care System - HamiltonHamilton · 1 kmSee surgeon 43 · Surgery 60103 days