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Island hospitals’ family inclusion policies lead Canada
2017-03-28
Prince Edward Island is among Canada’s leaders in making its hospital policies more family friendly.
Nearly 50 Canadian hospitals and health care organizations are participating in the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement’s (CFHI) “Better Together” initiative, which is revolutionizing...
New program promotes brain injury prevention
2017-03-15
Prince Edward Island’s new trauma program is helping Islanders and health care providers better identify, prevent, and manage brain injuries.
Over the past two years, 2,030 Islanders went to an emergency department citing a head injury as one of the reasons for their visit. To address this growing...
Prince County clinics offer walk-in mental health supports
2017-03-10
Three new walk-in clinics offer Prince County residents better access to mental health services.
Clinics in Summerside and in O’Leary will support residents of all ages, while a third at Westisle High School is designed to support West Prince teens age 16 and older. All three will help Islanders...
Early detection saves lives - she's proof
2017-03-02
During her 32-year career in emergency room nursing, Donna Gallant says she has seen plenty of people come in with painful symptoms of advanced cancer that could have been detected much earlier.
It was that memory that finally convinced her to use a FIT kit - an at home test for colon cancer -...
Colorectal cancer screening saves lives
2017-03-01
It was during Colorectal Cancer Screening Month back in March 2012 that Donna Gallant took a test that saved her life.
The Summerside resident ordered a FIT Kit at-home test that came back positive. After undergoing surgery and months of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, Gallant is now cancer-...