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Thousands of Islanders accessed care under Pharmacy Plus PEI program during first three months
2023-01-27
More than 11,000 Islanders have visited their community pharmacist to access care for certain common ailments or renew eligible prescriptions since the launch of the Pharmacy Plus PEI program last October. “Pharmacists across the Island have been champions over the last few years by quickly...
Volunteer Food Safety Presentations
2023-01-27
Are you a volunteer with a non-profit organization or service club?, Your non-profit organization and/or service club is required to have at least one organizer or volunteer present during food preparation who has completed the Food Safety Training or has a Certificate of Attendance from the...
Pharmacy Plus PEI Participating Pharmacies
2023-01-27
Image with orange background and white text and Pharmacy Plus logo. Text reads "Receive the care you need in your neighbourhood" and the logo features a heart and prescription medication Receive the care you need in your neighbourhood image Pharmacies participating in the Pharmacy Plus...
New Mental Health Structured Programming and Day Treatment facility unveiled; new programs announced for Islanders
2023-01-26
Islanders will soon have access to more mental health treatments, clinical care and life skills development through the new Mental Health Structured Programming and Day Treatment facility. Today, the Government of Prince Edward Island and Health PEI jointly unveiled the new, innovative $4.5...
Questions about Booster Doses
2023-01-25
Why are booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine needed?, Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has released guidance on booster COVID-19 vaccine doses in Canada with the following objectives: minimize serious illness and death, to preserve health care capacity, and reduce...
Register for a Food Safety Course
2023-01-25
Food premises operators in PEI can register online for food safety training. A certified public health inspector will present current information on food hygiene, preparing food safely and preventing food poisoning. The one-day workshop will be offered at various dates and locations throughout PEI...
Food Safety during a Power Outage
2023-01-25
With an extended power outage, food you normally keep in the refrigerator or freezer may become unsafe to eat. In addition, if you are on a well, your water pump and any related treatment devices such as UV lights will not function. The following food safety practices may help prevent unpleasant...
What is Health Promotion?
2023-01-25
Health Promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. Health Promotion is strongly linked to the global challenge of non-communicable disease, also known as chronic disease . It situates health as a product of daily life and focuses on the basic...
What is Wellness?
2023-01-25
Wellness is the optimal state of health of individuals and groups. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. In January 2015 the Department...
Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Vaccine
2023-01-25
What are Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B and what are the complications of having these diseases?, Hepatitis A and B are two of several types of Hepatitis virus that attack the liver. Both Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B are vaccine preventable diseases., Hepatitis A, is most commonly spread by contact...