If you are a low-income family, you may qualify for the Family Health Benefit Drug Program which helps cover the cost of approved prescription medications for you and your children if they are under the age of 19 or under the age of 25 and a full-time student. Who is eligible...
This book contains information for parents, focusing on babies from birth to 6 months old. It includes information about growth and development, play, breastfeeding, crying, sleeping, and health and safety.
This document provides a framework to support teachers in the implementation of PED401A curriculum.
Joelene Spencer wasn’t sure what she would find when she arrived at the Women’s Wellness & Sexual Health Services clinic in Charlottetown. A walk-in clinic doctor had prescribed Nexplanon, a new type of birth control which is implanted in the upper arm. The Women’s Wellness...
This book contains information for parents, focusing on babies aged 6 to 12 months old. It includes information about development, play, behaviour, sleeping, eating, and health and safety.
The Prince Edward Island Immunization Program provides safe and effective vaccines that protect Islanders against some communicable diseases known as vaccine preventable diseases. Over the past 50 years the use of vaccines has prevented life threatening disease, disability...
A new mobile optometry service will offer on-site eye exams for long-term and community care residents in western PEI, improving access to eye care. The provincial government awarded $37,580 from the Health Innovation Fund to Jessica Wood Optometrist Inc., a Prince County-based...
This book contains information for parents, focusing on children aged 1 to 3 years old. It includes information about development, play, behaviour, sleeping, eating, toilet training, and health and safety.
“There’s really something to be said about the PEI charm,” said Amber Johnston, a nurse practitioner newly practicing on Prince Edward Island. “Everyone has been so lovely and happy to have us home.” Amber and her husband moved to Cornwall, PEI in December of 2022 when she was...
MyHealthPEI shows vaccination information that are digitally recorded in PEI’s Immunization Registry. The PEI Immunization Registry was created in 2016 to keep a digital record of vaccines administered in different health care settings across the province. On this page: What...