An agreement between the Province of Prince Edward Island and City of Summerside will provide the building site for a new community health centre. Under the arrangement, Summerside will purchase the land, located at 425 Granville Street, remove existing buildings and prepare the...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced four new cases of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island. One of the individuals is in their 50s, one is in their 30s and two are in their 20s. One individual is a close contact of a previously announced case; two...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced six new cases of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island. Two of the individuals are in their 40s, one is in their 30s, one is in their 20s and two are under the age of 12 years. Three of the cases are linked to travel...
More than 170 community-based health-care providers have signed up to adopt the provincial Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to help improve and streamline patient care for Islanders. The move to electronic patient charting will make it easier for health-care providers to securely...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents itself in a variety of ways and ranges from mild to severe. In PEI, a child may be identified with signs of autism at a very young age through a Public Health Nursing screening program. Public Health Nursing offers pre-school health clinics...
A new Psychologist Incentive Program will improve access to psychology services and increase support to meet the mental health needs of Islanders. “Psychologists are in high demand in Prince Edward Island, and we are pleased to offer this new incentive program to bring even more...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced three new cases of COVID-19 in Prince Edward Island. One of the individuals is in their 60s, one is in their 40s and the other is between the ages of 10 and 19 years. All three recently travelled outside Atlantic...
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, has announced two additional cases of COVID-19. Both cases are linked to the outbreak at the West Royalty School. One of the cases is a student at École La-Belle-Cloche in Souris and attended school today, Thursday, September 16...
The Chief Public Health Office has received an interjurisdictional notification regarding a COVID-19 case who traveled to PEI prior to testing positive. The individual is from Atlantic Canada and recently tested positive in their home jurisdiction. The individual was on Prince...