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...
Betty MacDonald may not think of herself as a hero, but her boss sure does. “There is no doubt in my mind. When I think of unsung heroes of the pandemic, I think of Betty MacDonald. People need to know about her.” – Alicia McCallum, temporary pharmacy manager for Health PEI’s...
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...