Summerside hospital’s ICU will be back up and running this summer, province says – CBC
Prince County Hospital’s intensive-care unit has been shut down since May 2023
Apr 10, 2025
P.E.I.’s health minister says the province will have enough staff to restore Prince County Hospital’s intensive-care unit by this summer.
The announcement was part of the Progressive Conservative government’s 2025-26 budget address Thursday in the legislative assembly.
Finance Minister Jill Burridge hailed “the return of full-time internal medicine coverage at Prince County Hospital, allowing their ICU to formally reopen this summer.”
Health Minister Mark McLane later told CBC News the province has hired a sixth internal medicine doctor who’s expected to start at the Summerside hospital later this year.
“We certainly won’t say no to any [additional] internal medicine physicians,” McLane said. “They are very difficult to recruit and to hire.”
