As respiratory illness season ends, Health PEI is lifting the mandatory masking policy in all its facilities. Monitoring data from Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Office show the positivity rate for influenza testing is well below five per cent, the national benchmark...
Community Paramedic Response Units (CPRUs) have responded to more than 1,000 low urgency medical calls since they were introduced last May. This has resulted in fewer unnecessary transports to the emergency department (ED) and more than 275 scheduled follow-up visits for patients...
Spring has sprung, and the countdown is on for Kyra Stiles and her team to get out into the fields for the 2025 growing season. Stiles is a Nutrient Management Specialist with the PEI Department of Agriculture and works on the Soil Quality Monitoring Project, which has been...