Background
The Department of Health and Wellness, Health PEI, and health care providers across the Island have continued to advance their approaches to care delivery to meet the growing needs in both volume and complexity, address staffing shortfalls and gaps, and deliver care and services in aging facilities. This work is per a 10-year Mental Health and Addictions Strategy, Moving Forward Together Link To Strategy developed in 2016.
The future of mental health, addiction and substance use services and care is dependent upon partners continuing to work together, including care providers from across the health care system; clients, families, and caregivers; community-based services; and emergency and crisis services to design a high-quality care delivery system.
Results
The future design of the mental health, addiction and substance use system across PEI is guided by a clear provincial vision, supporting principles, and core goals that describe an outcome clients, families, and providers can appreciate and value.
This vision is grounded in a Community First model that nurtures:
- an integrated continuum of services;
- an interdisciplinary care delivery model across providers;
- enabled by supporting technologies;
- and facilitated by optimally designed spaces to allow the right care, close to home, at the right time, by the right providers.