Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay are upgrading and expanding Hawke’s Bay Hospital’s surgical services to increase the number of public surgeries the hospital undertakes each year and improve patient experience.
The upgrade includes:
The renovations will improve patient flow through theatre, from the time of pre-admission through to discharge, and the efficiency of operations through the layout of pre and post-operative areas.
STAGE 1: Link bridge, pharmacy room, theatre storage and more
Completed September 2021.
STAGE 2: Theatre Admissions and Discharge Unit
Completed 31 March 2022.
We’ve replaced the former staff change rooms with the new pre and post-operative unit, called the Theatre Admissions and Discharge Unit TADU)(external link). This is a larger, more welcoming environment, which will help improve flow through the Perioperative Unit and the overall patient experience.
STAGE 3: Orderlies base
Completed July 2021.
We’ve converted the old gift shop at the hospital main entrance into the Orderlies base so that Sterile Services could expand in to their former space.
STAGE 4a: Theatre eight shell/temporary sterile storage
Completed March 2023.
STAGE 4b: Secondary acute entrance to theatres
Completed 12 June 2023
STAGE 5: Extra space for Central Sterile Services Department
Completed 2023.
We’ve converted the former Orderlies base and part of the cleaners’ area near the hospital kitchen into additional space for Central Sterile Services Department to house their offices and loan store.
STAGE 6a: PACU expansion and refurbishment
Completed September 2023.
The PACU expansion will provide additional capacity. This will help Hawke’s Bay Hospital support an eighth operating theatre, due to be completed next year.
STAGE 6b: Acute theatre entrance refurbishment
STAGE 7: Central Sterile Services Department refurb and modification
Started December 2022, expected to be complete late 2023.
STAGE 8: Perioperative Unit refurb and modifications
Due to start mid-2023, expected to be complete late 2023.
STAGE 9: Theatre eight construction.
Due to start late 2023 and is expected to be complete early 2024.
Pattons Engineering Site Team Leader Ray Karauria and Te Whatu Ora Hawke's Bay Senior Project Manager Janet Heinz at Stage 6, which will eventually be the new Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (formerly known as Recovery)