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Better health and healing for teens with mental illness
2017-10-30
Strengthening mental health services -
The world can be a stressful and threatening place for many teens, and especially for those with mental health challenges.
Through Health PEI’s INSIGHT program, a group of trained and concerned professionals is offering these Prince Edward Island youth aged...
Island paramedics recognized for exemplary service
2017-10-27
Distributed at the request of Medavie Health Services -
Prince Edward Island paramedics recognized with the Governor General’s Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medal during a ceremony at Government House.
The exemplary service medals recognize those persons in high-...
Paramedic palliative care nationally recognized
2017-10-23
A provincial program helping Island palliative care patients remain in their homes longer has received national recognition for its innovative approach to end-of-life care.
The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improve (CFHI) recognized Health PEI’s Paramedics Providing Palliative Care at Home...
Family centred approach offers help for addictions
2017-10-17
Strengthening mental health services -
A family can feel trapped inside a cycle of anger and blame when one of their own suffers from addiction - but a new approach from Prince Edward Island's addiction services offers a way out.
Greg Purvis, addictions team lead at the Provincial Addiction...
Emergency care not affected by QEH disaster simulation
2017-10-16
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will carry out a mock disaster exercise this Wednesday, October 18 to test its emergency and disaster responses.
Although the hospital’s emergency department will play a large role in the disaster exercise, Islanders seeking emergency medical care will continue...
Walk-in mental health service expands
2017-10-13
Strengthening mental health services -
Expanding mental health walk-in clinic services will provide better access to care for a growing number of Islanders seeking non-urgent and non-life threatening mental health and addictions care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) emergency department.
As...
KCMH’s emergency department wait times now online
2017-10-03
Islanders can make better-informed decisions about where to access emergency care now that wait times for Kings County Memorial Hospital’s emergency department are online.
Kings County Memorial Hospital is the final Prince Edward Island emergency department to make its wait times available online...
Out-of-Province Travel Declaration Form
2017-10-02
PEI Pharmacare clients travelling outside of the province may be allowed to obtain up to 180 days of their eligible medication prior to leaving the province. If your medication is eligible, complete this form prior to leaving the province and take it to your pharmacy, so they can keep it on file....