You may need to wait longer than the wait time posted when you arrive at the emergency department to see a physician. For a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1. Emergency departments provide care to those who are the most sick or have critical, life-threatening health...
You may need to wait longer than the wait time posted when you arrive at the emergency department to see a physician. For a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1. Emergency departments provide care to those who are the most sick or have critical, life-threatening health...
You may need to wait longer than the wait time posted when you arrive at the emergency department to see a physician. For a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1. Emergency departments provide care to those who are the most sick or have critical, life-threatening health...
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a free at-home monitoring program available to Islanders who live with heart failure or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). How can RPM help me? If you have heart failure or COPD, you can: learn to manage your chronic disease from the...
How a PEI tech company made booking lab tests much easier “I feel like you could say this about almost every facet of health care, but the pandemic really did change everything for us,” said Brian Timmons, provincial director of Medical Laboratory Services at Health PEI. “We...
The Addictions Intensive Day Program (IDP) supports participants in obtaining, understanding, and processing pertinent information about their addiction, including learning about skills and tools of the recovery process and developing a personal recovery plan and relapse...
The Needle Exchange Program is available in communities across the province to prevent the spread of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV – diseases that can be transmitted by sharing equipment to inject drugs. Naloxone kits are also available at all sites to prevent opioid-related...
Islanders can now apply for Prince Edward Island’s new Provincial Dental Care Program. “Oral health is such an important component of our overall health, so I am pleased to see our government’s plans for the Provincial Dental Care Program become a reality. This program will allow...
Health PEI is asking members of the public to submit samples of biting ticks for a study tracking the human risk of tick-borne illness on Prince Edward Island. Please note: The study began in May of 2019 and concluded in 2021. Dr. Greg German, Health PEI medical microbiologist...
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...