A new program will help fund sensors that allow people with diabetes and their health care team better monitor their sugar levels. Over 15,000 Islanders live with diabetes, a chronic disease where the body is unable to produce insulin or properly use the insulin it produces. On...
Health PEI is introducing a new digital assessment tool for older Islanders that will improve the way people are assessed for care needs as they age. The tool, called interRAI-HC, uses a digital platform that replaces the former paper-based system that has been in use on PEI for...
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...
Here are the 17 people appointed or reappointed to five agencies, boards and commissions for April 2022. Atlantic Provinces Harness Racing Commission Jacinta Campbell - Charlottetown Community Care Facilities and Nursing Homes Board Donald Ling - Stratford Danielle Ramsay -...
Health PEI advises that the schedule for COVID-19 testing sites will be modified starting May 16, 2022. Borden Carleton, 20 Dickie Rd: CLOSING May 16 *additional hours added to schedule at Slemon Park location Summerside, Slemon Park: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday and...