Since October 2023, the Alberton Community Health Centre (CHC) has been welcoming West Prince residents to a bright, welcoming and new building. Located at 397 Church Street, the CHC provides nearly 20,000 square-feet of specially designed space to allow for multiple health care...
Pictured above from left to right: Mark McLane, Minister of Health and Wellness; Diane Griffin, Health PEI Board Chair; Audrene Mattheson, RN Team Lead; Lorraine Drost, NP; Tasha MacDonald, RN Supervisor; Lorna Hutt, Director of Community Mental Health and Addictions; and Melanie...
Due to inclement weather and road conditions, the following health services have been impacted as of noon: • all primary care appointments at the Alberton, Tyne Valley and O’Leary Health Centres scheduled for this afternoon are cancelled; • all public health nursing appointments...
A more accessible screening program and more available human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are working together to help reduce the number of Island women diagnosed with cervical cancer. The number of Island women diagnosed per year has slowly declined from an average of eight...
Health PEI is asking the public for patience as Island hospitals operate above normal capacity. This added pressure makes for longer wait times, slows the flow of patients through the system, and creates stress for patients, loved ones, and our hard-working staff. Island...
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...
Islanders with breast cancer now have help to pay for Ibrance, a life sustaining drug which has been added to the provincial drug formulary effective immediately. Ibrance is a treatment option for people with metastatic breast cancer and is now available for eligible patients to...
The emergency department at Kings County Memorial Hospital will be closed this evening (March 1) from 7 to 10 p.m. due to a temporary lack of nursing coverage. The department will reopen Friday, March 2 at 8 a.m. Anyone with urgent medical needs should call 9-1-1 or seek...
Health PEI is participating in a national pilot program, in collaboration with Canada Health Infoway and other provinces and territories, to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) scribe technology in primary care settings. The AI scribe technology is designed to reduce...
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...