Tauranga Campus
New hospital facilities
Construction and refurbishment of Tauranga Hospital began in 2005 and is now 75 per cent complete. It has cost around $139 million. The last phase – the new east wing – started in November 2009 and will take around 18 months.
The north wing tower is now complete. It features:
- new operating theatre suite for acute, elective and day stay surgery
- new outpatients department, relocated and expanded Assessment Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit and Allied Health Unit
- relocation and consolidation of maternity, antenatal and the special care baby unit into the main hospital building
- expanded emergency department, with increased treatment places
- new Admission Planning Unit
- expanded imaging department
- refurbished west ward
- central and theatre sterile supplies unit consolidated into a single facility co-located with the theatre suite
What’s happening now?
BOPDHB Chair Mary Hackett (left) is delighted to welcome Tauranga MP Simon Bridges (centre) and Minister of Health, Mr Tony Ryall (right) to the Tauranga Hospital site on 22 January 2010. My Ryall announces funding approval for the building of the new East Wing (Building 50).
Work on the new five-storey east wing block is underway and expected to be completed by mid 2011. It will cost approximately $25 million.
A number of enabling works will be happening over the next few months to prepare for this.
A number of smaller refurbishment and renovation projects are currently in progress. We expect to complete these with a minimum of disruption or inconvenience to patients and visitors.
East wing (Building 50) time-line
| May / June 2009 |
finalise design of building |
| July 2009 |
enabling works (work needed before construction can commence e.g. drainage work; relocating hospital services; repositioning underground services) |
| November 2009 |
construction begins – ground-breaking |
| December 2009 |
piling and foundation work |
| Mid 2010 |
shell of building complete |
| Mid 2011 |
building complete; fit-out of ground and first floor complete |
| July 2011 |
all services relocated |
East wing services
The new east wing block will house the following services:
- Ground Floor: Medical Day Stay ward; Endoscopy unit
- First Floor: Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Coronary Care Unit (CCU)
- Floors 2, 3 and 4: will not be included in this building phase, these floors will be part of the hospital’s future development
Other campus redevelopment
- Parking: the former maternity unit is being demolished to make way for a new carparking area. This is expected to be ready to use by April 2010.
- Radiology: refurbishment of this area will be completed by mid 2010.
- RSA, Cameron Rd: the DHB takes possession of this site in December 2009. No decision has yet been made on how the DHB will use it.
