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...
Cancer affects not only the physical body, but also the emotional, social, spiritual and financial domains of life. On this page you will find some of the many resources available to cancer patients and their families. To broaden your search, the Canadian Cancer Society provides...
Supporting Island families - You could say that Health PEI’s cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation program is close to Jean-Louis Arsenault’s heart. Approximately 190 patients like Arsenault have completed cardiac (heart) or pulmonary (lung) rehab since the program began in January...
Insurable medical services such as an emergency or sudden illness within Canada may be covered for Island residents with a valid PEI Health Card. How do I get approval for out-of-province non-emergency medical or hospital service? Your PEI physician or nurse practitioner will...
The Health PEI SOHPP provides free preventative services for ALL children from 0 to 17 years old. Preventative services are provided in most schools across the province as well as in provincial public health dental clinics located in Charlottetown, Summerside and Tignish. The SOHPP teams are made up of dental hygienists and dental assistants who will screen your child at school to determine what preventative services your child may require. Dental health is an important part of overall health and tooth decay is one of the most common and preventable childhood diseases. The goal of the SOHPP is...
The Health PEI Board acknowledges and celebrates staff making positive, sustainable changes across the Prince Edward Island health system through the Leadership Excellence in Quality and Safety Award. What is the Leadership Excellence in Quality and Safety Award? This Quality and...
With a second provincial audiologist, wait times are dropping dramatically. Kaitlin MacKay remembers all too well the stress of being PEI’s only provincial audiologist. “I had a lot of sleepless nights,” she said. “For a long time, I struggled with thinking, ‘am I really doing a...
As of April 1, Health PEI will launch the Program for Elementary Eye Care (PEEC), a new program that will fund annual eye exams and up to three prescription pairs of glasses per student during elementary school. This program, the first of its kind in Canada, aims to address the...
At just 21 years old, Bertha Butler knew she wanted to be a nurse. Bertha began her career as an LPN in 1974 and never looked back. “Things looked quite different at the O’Leary hospital when I started,” she said. While the services may have changed at Community Hospital O’Leary...
Health PEI is calling on eligible Islanders who are not yet fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to take advantage of the nearly 2,600 available appointments at clinics across the province over the next week, including hundreds of walk-in opportunities to get a booster dose...