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Submit Nominations for the Shelley L. Woods Excellence in Person-Centered Care Award

The Shelley L. Woods Excellence in Person-Centered Care Award recognizes a Health PEI employee working in long-term care who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to the person-centered care philosophy. Person-centered care means: Treating residents as individuals Working with residents to help them make decisions and manage their health Forming trusting and supportive relationships with residents Considering residents’ needs, wishes, values, family dynamics, social circumstances and lifestyles Being compassionate and respectful Engaging in activities with residents Providing residents with...

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Islanders will help shape new diabetes strategy

Islanders living with diabetes are invited to a series of important conversations next month that will shape Prince Edward Island’s renewed diabetes strategy. Health PEI will hold four focus group sessions across the province from June 5 to 13 to help inform the new multi-year...

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Cancer screening is important to prevention

Regular cancer screening is important to keeping Islanders healthy. Screening helps catch some cancers early when they are the most treatable, and almost half of all cancers can be prevented by eating well, being active, maintaining a healthy body weight, limiting alcohol use and...

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Nursing Student Summer Employment Program - Student Application

Health care facilities across Prince Edward Island offer summer employment opportunities for nursing students to work in the private and public health care sectors. Students have the opportunity to gain meaningful nursing work experience while contributing to our health care system and services. Eligibility Students of a Bachelor Degree in Nursing program who have successfully completed three years of a four year nursing program are eligible for summer positions within Health PEI and private long term care facilities. You must also meet the following criteria to be eligible to apply to the...

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Cancer patients benefiting from leading-edge treatment

Island cancer patients requiring radiation therapy are now benefiting from more advanced treatment available thanks to new technology at the PEI Cancer Treatment Centre. A new $10 million state-of-the-art TrueBeam linear accelerator enables higher precision radiation techniques...

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Home care takes collaboration

The very fabric of home care is embedded with collaboration. It takes an enormous team of professionals to make the system work and to ensure the best quality of care for Islanders. As Crystal Praught, director of Home Care Services for Health PEI said, "I want people to know the...

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Remote monitoring program helps keep Islanders at home, out of hospital

It didn’t take long for Island physician Dr. Shannon Curtis to notice how a new remote-monitoring program helped one of her patients with congestive heart failure take more control of her own illness. Since it was introduced in November 2015, the Remote Patient Monitoring program...

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