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Glucose Sensor Technology available for Islanders living with Diabetes
2022-05-18
A new program will help fund sensors that allow people with diabetes and their health care team better monitor their sugar levels. Over 15,000 Islanders live with diabetes, a chronic disease where the body is unable to produce insulin or properly use the insulin it produces. On average, 860...
New Long-Term Care assessment tool to provides better care plans for Islanders
2022-05-17
Health PEI is introducing a new digital assessment tool for older Islanders that will improve the way people are assessed for care needs as they age. The tool, called interRAI-HC, uses a digital platform that replaces the former paper-based system that has been in use on PEI for many years. The...
COVID-19 testing clinics schedule update beginning May 16, 2022
2022-05-13
Health PEI advises that the schedule for COVID-19 testing sites will be modified starting May 16, 2022., Borden Carleton, 20 Dickie Rd:, CLOSING May 16 *additional hours added to schedule at Slemon Park location, Summerside, Slemon Park:, Monday - Friday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m...
Health PEI introducing new day program for acute mental health patients
2022-05-10
Health PEI’s Mental Health and Addictions division is introducing a new 12-space acute day program and consolidating acute mental health care beds in order to help improve patient care and increase access to acute inpatient and psychiatry services. The new Partial Hospitalization Program will...
May 9 to 15 is National Nursing Week #WeAnswerTheCall
2022-05-09
May 9 to 15 is National Nursing Week in Canada. Nurses play a pivotal role in the health care of Islanders, working tirelessly at every level of the health care system, be they Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, or Nurse Practitioners. “PEI’s nurses have always been the face of health...
Organ Donation: Giving - and receiving - the gift of life
2022-04-26
The gift of life is something most parents give their child only once. But not Crystal Ogden. “People tell me I gave her life twice.” In 2013, Ogden donated part of her liver to her daughter Cadence, who was just five years old when she learned she needed a liver transplant. At age two, Cadence was...
First five Patient Medical Homes launched
2022-04-01
Patient medical homes have been formed at five 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 been...
Cough and Fever clinics closing March 31 as family physician offices, walk-in clinics take over care
2022-03-28
Health PEI Cough and Fever Clinics in Charlottetown and Slemon Park will end on March 31 as routine care for Islanders with respiratory illness is transitioned back to family physician offices and walk-in clinics. “Cough and Fever Clinics were established in 2020 to provide a place for people with...
Now is the time for Island children and adolescents to get vaccinated against COVID-19
2022-03-10
March break week is an opportunity for Island parents and guardians to make an appointment for their children and adolescents to get vaccinated for COVID-19, including the booster dose if eligible, and reduce their child’s risk of severe illness when they come into contact with the virus. “As...
Hundreds of available appointments for Islanders to get vaccinated against COVID-19 this week
2022-03-07
Health PEI is calling on eligible Islanders who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 to take advantage of the more than 900 available appointments at clinics across the province this week, including for children. Starting today and through the end this week, there are more than 550 appointments...