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News before 1996 is not available online.
Supporting Island families - For Jeremy Measham, the Paramedics Providing Palliative Care at Home Program is an opportunity to help people through some of the hardest periods of their lives. The program, launched by Health PEI in 2015, involves paramedics providing ongoing care -...
Strengthening mental health services - The world can be a stressful and threatening place for many teens, and especially for those with mental health challenges. Through Health PEI’s INSIGHT program, a group of trained and concerned professionals is offering these Prince Edward...
Distributed at the request of Medavie Health Services - Prince Edward Island paramedics recognized with the Governor General’s Emergency Medical Services Exemplary Service Medal during a ceremony at Government House. The exemplary service medals recognize those persons in high...
A provincial program helping Island palliative care patients remain in their homes longer has received national recognition for its innovative approach to end-of-life care. The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improve (CFHI) recognized Health PEI’s Paramedics Providing...
Health PEI’s acting Chief Executive Officer Denise Lewis Fleming is confirming a breach of patient records at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. “Unfortunately, there has been an incident involving a former employee of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital who inappropriately viewed the...
Strengthening mental health services - A family can feel trapped inside a cycle of anger and blame when one of their own suffers from addiction - but a new approach from Prince Edward Island's addiction services offers a way out. Greg Purvis, addictions team lead at the...
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will carry out a mock disaster exercise this Wednesday, October 18 to test its emergency and disaster responses. Although the hospital’s emergency department will play a large role in the disaster exercise, Islanders seeking emergency medical...
Strengthening mental health services - Expanding mental health walk-in clinic services will provide better access to care for a growing number of Islanders seeking non-urgent and non-life threatening mental health and addictions care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH)...
Strengthening mental health services - Expanding mental health walk-in clinic services will provide better access to care for a growing number of Islanders seeking non-urgent and non-life threatening mental health and addictions care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH)...
Whether in person or on the web, Islanders who attend Health PEI’s annual general meeting can give their input and participate in quality discussions about health care on Prince Edward Island. The meeting is this evening, October 5, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Credit Union...