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Waikato District Health Board
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Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
Waikato District Health Board - Latest News [Page 45]
Hospital Gets Gift From Grateful Firefighters
Sunday, 20 September 2009, 10:55 am | Waikato District Health Board
The Waikato Hospital ward where Hamilton firefighters recovered after last year's Icepak Coolstore fire at Tamahere now has two fold out sofa chairs and a two-seater couch courtesy of a fund set up for their families. More >>
Photo: Seth Tera
Monday, 14 September 2009, 2:30 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Click to enlarge Seth Tera, middle, with his nieces, left Xianthea Tera, 4, and right Braxton, 6, in Tokoroa earlier this year. Picture: supplied More >>
Statement - Survivor Mt Ruapehu Fall
Monday, 7 September 2009, 5:39 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Colin Lightbody, 41, an IT consultant from Malvern East, Melbourne, Australia who survived a 200 metre fall from Mt Ruapehu yesterday asked us to release the following statement. Colin is in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital. He has two broken ... More >>
Waikato Hospital has employed a security manager
Monday, 7 September 2009, 11:39 am | Waikato District Health Board
The appointment was one of four recommendations made by Waikato Police in a research review completed last month by a police district problem-solving team. Waikato District Health Board sought help from the police following a number of security issues at ... More >>
Fatal Car Crash Rotorua - patient update
Friday, 4 September 2009, 4:37 pm | Waikato District Health Board
The 19-year-old Rotorua man transported to Waikato Hospital yesterday on the Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance is now out of intensive care and stable in a ward. More >>
Biggest hospital building just what the Dr ordered
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 4:00 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Construction of Waikato Clinical Centre will create up to 400 jobs, but when it opens, it will also make visiting Waikato Hospital much easier. With most clinics inside, theatres and day procedures, most visitors to the hospital will be heading for the ... More >>
South Waikato health services - the future
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 3:46 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato DHB board members say they want management to come back to them with a clinically sustainable plan for delivering health services in South Waikato. The board recently received a 71-page report commissioned by Waikato DHB, Waikato PHO and Pinnacle. ... More >>
The Plan: To Eliminate Peripheral Costs
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 5:06 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board has no plans to cut services to the public or to make cuts in essential service delivery. More >>
Busy year for Health Waikato
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 3:59 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board's hospital and health services provider arm Health Waikato had a year to remember. In the financial year 1 July 2008-30 June 2009, the organisation: did 21,686 surgical operations saw 78,275 people in its emergency departments ... More >>
Waikato DHB District Annual Plan
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 4:14 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Health Minister Tony Ryall signed off Waikato DHB's district annual plan this month. He told chairman Graeme Milne the plan presents "as a clear and concise business plan that provides an accountability framework for the DHB to monitor progress." More >>
Hospice Waikato to enhance services
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 4:53 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Hospice Waikato is to appoint its own palliative care physician based in Hamilton at the Gallagher Family Hospice and working throughout the Waikato community. Chief executive Elizabeth Bang today said the hospice hoped to have a specialised doctor ... More >>
Norovirus outbreak at Tokoroa Hospital
Friday, 14 August 2009, 9:13 am | Waikato District Health Board
Tokoroa Hospital continues to remain closed to inpatients for the next 24 hours due to a norovirus outbreak. More >>
Community Support For Tokoroa Hospital
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 5:36 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Another member of staff at Tokoroa Hospital has gone home with norovirus-like symptoms bringing the number of those affected to 21, 10 of them patients. The virus, which results in violent symptoms including diarrhoea and vomiting, probably came from ... More >>
Norovirus Update Tokoroa Hospital
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 3:31 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Three patients and eight staff members at Tokoroa Hospital still have norovirus-like symptoms this afternoon. All patients will continue to be either isolated in single rooms or separated in multi-bed rooms with contact precautions. More >>
Norovirus At Tokoroa Hospital
Monday, 10 August 2009, 3:39 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Tokoroa Hospital is battling a norovirus outbreak and Waikato District Health Board is urging people, in particular visitors with diarrhoea and vomiting, to stay away until the hospital is symptoms free. More >>
Waikato DHB hotline to stamp out health fraud
Friday, 7 August 2009, 11:26 am | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) today introduced a fraud hotline to try to stamp out health fraud. Audit and Compliance, a Ministry of Health business unit responsible for managing risks associated with payment for services to contracted health providers, ... More >>
Patient updates - Waikato Hospital
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 4:43 pm | Waikato District Health Board
A 30-year-old Hamilton man is under assessment in Waikato Hospital emergency department following an explosion at Gas Pro in Grey St, Hamilton earlier today. The man sustained burns to his face. The owner of Gas Pro said the accident happened as the man was ... More >>
Dog Attack- Arapuni
Monday, 3 August 2009, 4:42 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Further to this release, a 36-year-old Putaruru woman is in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital emergency department and will go to theatre in the next two hours and then onto a ward. Her husband thanked all those who assisted at the scene including ... More >>
Tokoroa Hospital Celebrates 40th With The Board
Friday, 31 July 2009, 3:52 pm | Waikato DHB
Tokoroa Hospital has extended their 40th birthday celebrations over a week so they can have some special guests to join in the festivities. While the hospital's official birthday is on Sunday (2 August), Waikato District Health Board is also holding a ... More >>
Local project supports stepfamilies
Friday, 31 July 2009, 9:44 am | Waikato District Health Board
Joining families together can be a challenge, especially when children are involved, but one Hamilton course is helping families get through these tough times. Piloted by the Western Community Centre in April, a Blending Families programme provided ... More >>
