COVID-19 on P.E.I.: What s happening Sunday, April 11
Coffee shops in Charlottetown are delicately discouraging computer campers from taking up tables for hours at a time when space is at a premium.
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Posted: Apr 11, 2021 12:43 PM AT | Last Updated: April 11
Anyone 55 and older can start receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine Monday at select pharmacies on P.E.I. (Laura Hasani/Reuters)
More Prince Edward Islanders have begun foraging for their own food, and experts say a snack can be as close as your own backyard.
Even as the Atlantic bubble is scheduled to bring down barriers in the Atlantic provinces in a little more than a week, many P.E.I. tourism operators are still trying to decide whether to open this season.
P.E.I. pottery designs Angel Mug to honour health care workers
Island Stoneware in Summerside has come up with its own way to honour and celebrate health care workers: a locally designed mug featuring angel wings.
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Posted: Jan 21, 2021 8:00 PM AT | Last Updated: January 22
While Summerside s Prince County Hospital has six ICU beds, just four are operational due to the nursing shortage. (Steve Bruce/CBC) comments
Health PEI says the province s two intensive care units are operating at reduced capacity, all as a result of a nurse staffing crunch.
According to the agency, only four of the six ICU beds at Summerside s Prince County Hospital are operational. That s because 9.6 of the 15.6 ICU nurse positions there are vacant.
At Charlottetown s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, just eight of the 10 ICU beds are open. The agency says between the ICU and the critical care unit, which share staff, there are 5.9 vacant nursing positions.
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 18
A lawsuit filed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association seeks to change New Brunswick law so that surgical abortions at Clinic 554 in Fredericton can be funded by medicare. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
A group suing the New Brunswick government in an effort to get it to fund abortions in private clinics is pointing to a similar restriction in Prince Edward Island, calling P.E.I. s law discriminatory and one that has no place on the books.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed its constitutional challenge earlier this month in Court of Queen s Bench in Fredericton.
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 7:47 PM AT | Last Updated: January 15
Those in mental health crisis in Charlottetown will now go to the emergency department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, instead of the urgent care clinic. (Steve Bruce/CBC)
A special facility to treat those in psychiatric emergencies in Charlottetown won t be reopening, despite earlier assurances from the health minister that the closure was temporary.
The psychiatric urgent care clinic or PUCC as it s called operated from April to the end of October at the Hillsborough Hospital, just around the corner from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
It was set up to handle those in mental health crisis a place for them to go for specialized support, and also divert them away from the QEH s emergency department to reduce visitors there during the early days of the pandemic. The clinic was staffed with a team, including a psychiatric nurse, who triaged patients and arranged virtual psychiatric appointments.