The patient medical home model is working at the Kinlock Medical Centre. Four years ago, a group of Charlottetown-area doctors came together for a meeting. “We didn’t even have a name for what we were talking about, but we all knew the current system isn’t working,” said Dr...
Ann Millar knows first-hand what it feels like to have your life flipped upside down. Thirty years ago, her mother was given a life-altering diagnosis. In the difficult weeks ahead, one of the big hurdles was navigating the health care system. “The system is complex,” she said....
Public Health Nursing goes out of its way to accommodate everyone’s needs for vaccination. We know vaccines are important, but for some people, the vaccination clinic itself is so intimidating or scary, it can be a serious barrier. “New spaces are difficult for anybody,” said Dr...
With a second provincial audiologist, wait times are dropping dramatically. Kaitlin MacKay remembers all too well the stress of being PEI’s only provincial audiologist. “I had a lot of sleepless nights,” she said. “For a long time, I struggled with thinking, ‘am I really doing a...
“I don’t know if there was ever a time in my life when I wasn’t thinking about being a physician,” said Dr. Trina Stewart, a family physician in Summerside. “I grew up in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick. When I was in Grade 11, I sent letters to medical faculties all over Canada and...
Meet Health PEI’s Mental Health and Addictions Patient Navigator Working in Community Mental Health and Addiction from 2018-2021, Kaley Knox could see firsthand how difficult it can be for people to find the help they need. When she saw a job posting for the then-new position of...
Rachel Morgan’s three-year-old son Link has always been a good communicator. He’s just not much of a talker. “Oh, he has no problem letting you know what he’s thinking!” said Morgan with a laugh from her home in Miscouche. “We taught him sign language when he was a baby, and he...
A look at life inside PEI’s COVID unit “For a long time, it felt like all the training we did to get ready for COVID was for nothing,” said Chelsea Chessman, the patient care coordinator of Unit 3 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). “But when the omicron variant started to...
Leon Robinson figured he wasn’t having a heart attack. The 74-year-old Charlottetown man woke up early one Saturday morning last May. He and his wife were going shopping for a new car that afternoon, so he decided to clean out the old one. As he vacuumed the seats, he felt a...
Screening for colorectal cancer works. Just ask Dr. Rosemary Henderson. “There’s no doubt about it. The screening program caught my cancer so early, my entire journey with cancer was a minor inconvenience that lasted a few months. It could have been so much worse.” – Dr. Rosemary...