{"id":4954,"date":"2025-11-01T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/prince-county-hospital-hemodialysis-unit-to-close-temporarily-for-renovations\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:15:16","slug":"prince-county-hospital-hemodialysis-unit-to-close-temporarily-for-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/prince-county-hospital-hemodialysis-unit-to-close-temporarily-for-renovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince County Hospital hemodialysis unit to close temporarily for renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PEIA hemodialysis unit in Prince County Hospital will be closing temporarily for renovations, which are needed in part due to high humidity issues in the space. Officials with Health P.E.I. say the humidity issues have been fixed, but cupboards in the unit need to be replaced due to moisture damage caused by high humidity and manufacturing problems. Closure will take place in either December or January and is expected to last 2 weeksJenna Banfield \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Oct 31, 2025 8:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesSome people are upset about a Summerside dialysis unit closing temporarily for renovations, while a P.E.I. politician is also asking questions about past problems with the unit. CBC\u2019s Laura Meader has more.Some people are upset about a Summerside dialysis unit closing temporarily for renovations, while a P.E.I. politician is also asking questions about past problems with the unit. CBC\u2019s Laura Meader has more.A hemodialysis unit in Prince County Hospital will be closing temporarily for renovations, which are needed in part due to high humidity issues in the space. Officials with Health P.E.I. say the humidity issues have been fixed, but cupboards in the unit need to be replaced due to moisture damage caused by high humidity and manufacturing problems. The closure is expected to take place over a two-week period in either December or January, and will mean some patients will have to travel farther for treatment. Tignish resident Greg Gavin is one of those patients. He regularly receives dialysis at PCH. He was told that Western Hospital cannot treat him during the closure, and that he must seek treatment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown. \u201cMost days after my treatment I feel very tired and just completely drained, and now I gotta drive an extra two-and-a-half hours to get home,\u201d he said.Gavin says he often feels \u2018completely drained\u2019 after his dialysis treatment, and is concerned about the extra driving he will have to do to receive treatment at the QEH during the PCH dialysis unit closure. (CBC)Spencer MacDonald, the manager of the provincial renal program, said re-distributing patients and staff between QEH and Western Hospital is not an easy task, but they will do their best to ensure the transition is smooth.\u201dIt\u2019s not ideal,\u201d he said. \u201cBut because of the nature of dialysis, this is how we have to do it, and we have to ensure that it\u2019s safe for all the patients to get their treatments.\u201dHumidity an issue in the unitLiberal MLA Hal Perry recently raised concerns about the PCH dialysis unit on social media. He said families and staff have complained to him about issues such as mold, high humidity and water leaks.Perry says he\u2019s heard concerns about the safety of patients and staff reagarding various humidity-related issues in the PCH dialysis unit. (Zoom)\u201dThe humidity is so high that the floors are slippery, there\u2019s moisture coming off the windows and doors where they have to put towels just to catch it,\u201d he told CBC News of the complaints he has heard. \u201cIt\u2019s unsafe working conditions, it\u2019s unsafe care environments for the patients and it\u2019s disruptive to patient care.\u201dHealth P.E.I. says there hasn\u2019t been leaks, and that there was a small bit of mold at one point, but it was quickly dealt with. MacDonald said upgrades to the ventilation system and dehumidifiers placed in the unit have helped address concerns about slippery floors. \u201cI feel that we\u2019ve done a lot of good work to ensure that the unit is comfortable for patients coming here every day, and safe for staff to work in.\u201dMacDonald said the upcoming renovations are strictly to replace cupboards due to moisture damage and manufacturing problems. (CBC)MacDonald said this closure will be solely to replace the millwork.\u201dIt was a two stage project to ensure that the humidity was dealt with, and now we\u2019re at the stage where we\u2019re trying to make sure that the unit is safe\u2026 and ensure that we\u2019re going to have a beautiful unit for patients to come to for their treatments, and a safe space for staff to work in.\u201dABOUT THE AUTHORJenna Banfield is an associate producer for CBC Prince Edward Island. She can be reached at jenna.banfield@cbc.caWith files from Laura Meader<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince County Hospital hemodialysis unit to close temporarily for renovations PEIA hemodialysis unit in Prince County Hospital will be closing temporarily for renovations, which are needed in part due to high humidity issues in the space. Officials with Health P.E.I. say the humidity issues have been fixed, but cupboards in the unit need to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,131,1],"tags":[116,130],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-prince-edward-island","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-prince-edward-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}