Health PEI has implemented a plan to maintain necessary critical care services at Prince County Hospital during an ongoing internal medicine physician shortage. “Our health-care system is responding to the greatest staffing challenges we have seen as a province and as a county...
Partnering with patients and families is important to the overall well-being and recovery of a patient. Patients and families are encouraged to become partners in care and to be active participants in their health care. Partner in Care A partner in care is a person whom the...
About Summerset Manor Summerset is an 82-bed combined long-term care facility located in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. There are six households, each with 13 or 14 residents. Every household has a kitchen, dining room and living room with a fireplace available to residents...
About Maplewood Manor Maplewood Manor is a 48-bed long-term care facility located in Alberton, Prince Edward Island. There are four households (Farm Brook Lane, Tranquil Garden, Old Time Square and Seascapes Harbour), each with 12 residents. Every household has a kitchen, dining...
Effective July 2023 Financial incentives are designed to attract and retain physicians to designated areas on Prince Edward Island. To be eligible, physicians must be relocating from out of province or be a participant in the PEI Family Medicine Residency Training Program and not...
Physicians must obtain licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Prince Edward Island. If you are already licensed in Canada, you also need to be licensed in the province of Prince Edward Island. Individual provinces are responsible for issuing their own license to...
Health PEI advises that the Evangeline Health Centre (Wellington) Same Day Clinic that operates on Wednesdays will be cancelled for May due to a lack of available staff. All other services at the clinic will continue. The Evangeline Health Centre (Wellington) Same Day Clinic...
Chronic kidney disease, also called CKD, happens when your kidneys have been damaged or not working well for more than three months. Treatment focuses on slowing the progression of kidney damage, usually by controlling the cause. The earlier chronic kidney disease is diagnosed...
The kidneys are two organs found below the ribs with one on each side of your spine. They are shaped like kidney beans and are about the size of your closed fist. Your kidneys cleanse your blood of toxins and transform the waste into urine. What happens when kidneys aren’t...
Approximately three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Health PEI is changing how COVID-19 testing is accessed across the province. The move reflects the continuing decline in the use of testing clinics by members of the public. All stand-alone community testing clinics...