Hospitals and Walk-ins

Provides health care services such as:

• General physician services
• Home and community care supports
• Substance abuse counselling
• Access to fitness and maternal health professionals
• Child and family wellness programming
• Health and nutrition programs, including services aimed at those with diabetes
• Individual and group wellness programs to help with day to day life skills and help with referrals to other programs that can help
• Gender-Affirming Care referrals
• Drop-in Health Clinic

Epekwitk / PEI has seven hospitals offering varying levels of care.

The two main referral hospitals providing inpatient, emergency, urgent psychiatric care, outpatient, community and specialty services are:

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown
• Prince County Hospital, Summerside

Individuals in need of urgent psychiatric care can go to the Emergency Room at Queen Elizabeth and Prince County Hospitals. They will be triaged and then see trained mental health staff.
Four community hospitals offer a variety of services that may include emergency, acute care, extended care, and community based services:

• Souris Hospital, Souris
• Kings County Memorial Hospital, Montague
• Community Hospital, O'Leary
• Western Hospital, Alberton

One inpatient psychiatric hospital for specialized acute and long-term treatment and rehabilitation:

• Hillsborough Hospital, Charlottetown

Provides individuals experiencing a mental health, addiction, or substance use crisis with streamlined, 24/7 access to a multi-disciplinary team of trained staff in an environment designed to meet emergency/urgent care needs.

Crisis conditions include:

• A serious, immediate mental health, addictions or substance use concern
  
• Risk of self-harm or harm to others
  
• Psychosis
  
• Emotional trauma, agitation, severe depression or anxiety suicidal thoughts

Provides virtual health care to Islanders who are currently without a primary care provider. Patients can speak to a PEI physician virtually to have an assessment, diagnosis, e-prescription, lab requisitions, and more.

Health PEI is operating the program in partnership with a secure private healthcare platform, Maple.
Accessing the program does not remove patients from the waitlist or change their position on the waitlist.

If help is required to sign up, visit an Access PEI location.

Note: Book through Health PEI, not Maple directly. Private bookings ask for payment, but Health PEI-covered ones are free.

• Connect with other health care professionals
• Locate programs and services that are available to help
• Assist with the discharge process from an out-of-province hospital

Allows individuals to see current estimated wait times for various health services online, including:

• Ambulance Response Times
• Cancer Treatment
• Computed Tomography (CT)
• Emergency Departments: Kings County Memorial Hospital * Prince County Hospital * Queen Elizabeth Hospital
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Referral to a Specialist and Radiation Therapy Treatment
• Surgery
• Ultrasound

Walk-in clinics provide non-urgent medical care at locations across Epekwitk / PEI.

If you are sick, call your family doctor or nurse practitioner first (primary care provider). See website for recommendations for when to visit a walk-in clinic.

The website provides an up-to-date list of walk-in medical clinics across Epekwitk / PE. Includes:

• Links to individual clinic websites
• Current week's clinic days and times
• Clinic contact information
• General information about when to visit a clinic and what to expect

For the list of primary care clinic, visit Health Centres Offer Primary Care.

It it is a medical emergency, call 911 or go to an emergency department. If unsure, call 811.