Best In-Home Nursing Care Agencies in Mississauga

The best in-home nursing agency in Mississauga has RNs and RPNs on its own staff, can pick up a discharge from the Mississauga Hospital or Credit Valley within a day or two, and works alongside the nurses Ontario Health atHome already sends. Private nursing here costs about $60 to $90 or more an hour in 2026, and publicly funded visits are free to the patient.

Here's our ranking of Mississauga's skilled nursing agencies, how we built it, and how to slot private visits around the public plan. If you need personal support rather than a nurse, browse our Mississauga home care directory.

How we ranked Mississauga's in-home nursing agencies

Only agencies that list nursing or other skilled clinical care in Mississauga, with five or more Google reviews, are eligible. A rating backed by many reviews counts for more than a perfect score from a handful, because nursing quality shows up over dozens of discharges.

The SCP Confidence Score breaks near-ties. Placement on the list isn't for sale, and we update it quarterly.

What can a visiting nurse do for your parent at home?

An RN or RPN handles the clinical jobs a personal support worker can't: dressings and incision checks, injections, IV lines, catheters and ostomies, and sorting out a new list of medications. Most Mississauga families need one in the first weeks after discharge. Many agencies only send PSWs, so ask before you book. Our in-home nursing guide has the detail.

Is in-home nursing funded in Mississauga?

It is, once your parent has been assessed. Call Ontario Health atHome's Mississauga Halton office at 310-2222 (no area code needed), and the nursing visits it approves are free. Most referrals start on the ward at Trillium, though a family member or doctor can also call if your parent is already home.

If your parent can get out of the house, the public plan may book them into a community nursing clinic instead of home visits. Ontario Health atHome lists Mississauga clinics run by CarePartners on Minnesota Court, Bayshore on Watline Avenue and on King Street West, Closing the Gap on Matheson Boulevard, and Spectrum on Central Parkway. They're free with OHIP, by appointment only, and only for patients already in the program.

Trillium's THP@home program is another free option after a hospital stay. A care navigator meets your parent on the ward, and the program can send nursing, personal support, and therapy home for 4 to 16 weeks while longer-term care is set up.

The public plan won't time visits around your schedule or add an overnight nurse after surgery. Private agencies charge about $60 to $90 or more an hour for that in 2026 (see the home care cost guide), and the refundable Ontario Seniors Care at Home Tax Credit gives some of it back.

Which Mississauga hospitals does home nursing connect with?

Most home nursing in Mississauga follows a stay at one of the two Trillium Health Partners hospitals: the Mississauga Hospital near Hurontario and the QEW, or Credit Valley Hospital on the west side. Trillium's Queensway site in Etobicoke handles rehab, and patients from there often come home with a nursing plan.

Ask each agency whether its nurses regularly pick up discharge plans from those sites, and whether they cover your parent's neighbourhood. Port Credit, Streetsville, Meadowvale, Erin Mills, and Malton are far apart in rush hour, and a nurse who lives nearby is more reliable than one crossing the city. Our Mississauga hospitals page has every site.

What does premium private nursing in Mississauga buy?

Near the top of that range you should get an RN who writes the care plan and revisits it, two or three nurses your parent comes to know, and someone who picks up the phone at 9 p.m. Visit notes should be clear enough to hand to the family doctor or the Credit Valley geriatric clinic.

Before signing, find out whether the agency charges extra for travel from across the city or for Sunday visits. A guaranteed backup nurse is worth the higher rate.

The bottom line

Choose a Mississauga agency with nurses on staff, based near your parent, who already know how Trillium's discharge plans work. Accept the public nursing first, including a clinic slot or THP@home if offered, and bring in a private agency only for the visits the plan can't cover.

Each listing above links to a full profile. For the hospital side, read our Home First discharge guide, and for everyone else in the city, our Mississauga home care directory.