Masking update: As of November 18, 2025, masks are required in patient care areas, patient rooms and waiting rooms. 

What to Bring to Mount Sinai

Learn more about what to bring to the hospital and what can stay at home.

Being prepared for your visit helps ensure a smooth and comfortable experience. What you bring depends on the reason for your visit.

Outpatient clinic visit

  • Health (OHIP) card or valid health-care coverage
  • A list of your current medications
  • A list of questions you may have
  • Anything else specified by your physician or clinic

Pre-surgery visit to the Pre-Admission Unit

  • Health (OHIP) card or valid health-care coverage
  • ​Policy information for additional health insurance, if applicable
  • ​Your current medications, including vitamins and herbal supplements, in their original bottles
  • The name, address and phone number of your family physician
  • The name, address and phone number of any other medical specialists you are seeing
  • Copies of any recent tests and a consultation letter from the medical specialist(s), if applicable
  • A copy of your completed pre-admission questionnaire and pre-operative health questionnaire, as well as any other documents your surgeon may have given you
  • If you are not fluent in English, please contact your surgical team to arrange an interpreter

Learn more about the Pre-Admission Unit.

Surgery

  • Health (OHIP) card or valid health-care coverage
  • Any additional health insurance and policy information
  • A method of payment (Visa, Mastercard, Interac debit or cash)
  • Containers for hearing aids, dentures, glasses or contacts, as these must be removed before surgery
  • Two reusable bags (one for your shoes and one for your clothes) that can fit into our lockers, which are four feet high and one foot wide
  • Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine, if you use one

If you are staying overnight, please also bring:

  • Overnight personal items and toiletry items, such as a robe or dressing gown, toothbrush or toothpaste

Learn more about Surgery at Mount Sinai.

Overnight or extended stay

  • Health (OHIP) card or valid health-care coverage
  • Identification showing your name, address and date of birth
  • Secondary insurance coverage information, if applicable
  • Your current medications, including vitamins and herbal supplements, in their original bottles
  • Toiletry items such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, brush or comb, shaving equipment, shampoo and deodorant
  • Cotton pyjamas with a button-down top
  • Slippers
  • Housecoat or dressing gown
  • Glasses, hearing aids and dentures

You may wish to bring a small amount of cash; however, please leave valuables at home. Electric razors and hair dryers are the only electrical grooming devices permitted.

Having a baby

Visit our pregnancy, birth and newborn care pages to learn more.