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2024-07-22
Whether your gambling involves lottery tickets, casino games, horse racing or sports betting, slot machines, or video lottery terminals (VLTs), a gambling addiction can cause serious harm to you and your loved ones.
Two signs of a gambling addiction are:
You cannot control the amount of...
2024-08-30
If you are living with diabetes or at risk of developing diabetes, the Provincial Diabetes Program can provide you with education, support and management advice.
What can the Provincial Diabetes Program do for me?
The Diabetes Program can offer you information and support on:...
2024-08-14
Health PEI offers mental health services for adults, youth, and those wanting to support family members.
Need Help Now?
Call the Mental Health and Addictions Phone Line at 1-833-553-6983. Calls are answered by trained mental health professionals (a registered nurse or a social worker)...
2023-01-31
Virtual care is a way to visit with your health care provider (e.g., doctor, nurse, social worker) using your phone, computer, or tablet.
You may see a health care provider virtually if:
your health care provider offers virtual visits and believes the visit can be done virtually, OR...
2024-08-05
This page answers common questions about how to access virtual care in PEI through Maple, a secure online health care platform.
The PEI Unaffiliated Virtual Care Program provides this service free of charge to Islanders on the Provincial Patient Registry who do not have a family doctor or...
2024-07-22
Need Help Now?
Mental Health and Addictions Phone Line
1-833-553-6983
Calls are answered by trained mental health professionals (a registered nurse or a social worker) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Mental health care is offered in community health facilities across the province....
2024-07-22
Need Help Now?
Mental Health and Addictions Phone Line
1-833-553-6983
Calls are answered by trained mental health professionals (a registered nurse or a social worker) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Addiction Services provide a range of programs designed to help you through the...
2020-04-09
The Home Care Program supports you and your caregivers so that you can remain in your home safely, with independence and quality of life, for as long as possible.
What can Home Care do for me?
Home Care can provide services in your home, if you:
need support to continue living...
2022-02-24
Youth and Family Addiction Services are provided across Prince Edward Island by youth addiction and family addiction counsellors. If you are a young person whose use of alcohol or drugs is causing you or your family concern, Youth and Family Addiction Services can help.
Services include:...
2024-02-12
Patient Medical Homes have formed at 17 Island primary care locations, beginning the shift in primary health care from solo family practices to collaborative health care and better access to care for Islanders.
Patient Medical Homes deliver team-based care through a model that has...
2023-09-29
You need a PEI Health Card to use services at hospitals and other public health care facilities in Prince Edward Island without being charged. Pharmacists also use your health card to record your medications in the PEI Drug Information System.
Apply for a PEI Health Card ...
2024-05-15
Long-term care provides specialized nursing and personal care services to individuals who can no longer live on their own, with family or home care supports. These services are provided while respecting each resident’s dignity and personal choices.
Services are provided in both public and...
2024-05-06
For immediate help
Call the Mental Health and Addictions Phone Line at 1-833-553-6983 (toll-free).
Calls are answered by trained mental health professionals 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.
Contact the Mobile Mental Health Response Service.
A team of trained health care...
Patient Navigators
2024-08-27
What is a Patient Navigator?
Health PEI Patient Navigators are individuals who can help you and your family to access resources within the health care services, community support organizations and other resources regardless of where you live in PEI or where you are within your health care journey...
Patient Experience
2024-08-27
Patient experience is an important part of the quality of health care one receives. It is everything from a patient’s communication with health care providers, to their ability to get a timely appointment, to receiving information about their care.
Patient navigators
A patient navigator is a...
Provincial Renal Program Travel Package
2024-08-27
This travel package must be completed to arrange for dialysis services in PEI.
Colorectal Cancer Screening Program
2024-08-27
Colorectal cancer often begins as polyps which are abnormal growths in the colon or rectum that can turn into cancer over time. There are often no warning signs. Finding and removing polyps early increases your chance of preventing colorectal cancer or detecting it early when it is most...
Request a Home Screening FIT Kit
2024-08-27
The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) is a safe and painless at-home colorectal cancer screening test. FIT checks someone’s stool (poop) for tiny amounts of blood, which could be caused by colorectal cancer or some pre-cancerous polyps (abnormal growths in the lining of the colon or rectum that can...
Health PEI Public and Patient Engagement
https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/information/health-pei/health-pei-public-and-patient-engagement
2024-08-26
Bringing Islanders’ perspectives to health care services and planning
Public and patient engagement is an important responsibility of a developing and responsive health care system.
Engagement with patients and members of the public ensures:
the health care needs of Islanders are communicated...
Pediatrician Outpatient Services
2024-08-20
Pediatricians are doctors who care for infants, children and adolescents.
Pediatricians in PEI act as consultants, along with your family doctor or nurse practitioner and other members of your child’s health care team.
For information about common childhood issues, see the resources at the...
Health PEI Annual General Meeting
2024-08-20
2024 Annual General Meeting
The 2024 Health PEI Annual General Meeting will happen on October 28 at 6 p.m. at the Delta Hotel (18 Queen St.) in Charlottetown and broadcast live on YouTube.
2023 Annual General Meeting
The 2023 Health PEI Annual General Meeting was on November 15, 6:30 p.m. to 8...