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Wellington Hospital's Redevelopment

Wellington Hospital is the region’s only tertiary hospital. Its services include very complex specialist and acute (or ‘tertiary’) services, procedures and treatments such as the Intensive Care Unit, cardiac surgery, cancer care, cardiology procedures, neurosurgery and renal care.

The new Wellington Regional Hospital will be fully open to the public in March 2009. The purpose built, state of the art facility has been designed to meet the future health needs of the people of the greater Wellington region and beyond.

The seven storey building has been designed to be more user friendly for patients and families. Departments and services which have close links will be nearer to each other, making it easier for patients and their families to move around. Whanau rooms, plenty of rest areas and rooms which are large enough to allow whanau/families to stay overnight, will provide a more comfortable patient and family experience.

The new building hospital will be base isolated allowing it to withstand an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude on the Wellington/Hutt section of the Wellington fault or an 8.2 magnitude event on the Wairarapa fault.

An additional 15, 622 square metres of existing hospital space will be refurbished as support facilities for the new hospital.

There has been a hospital on the Newtown site since 1881. The new Wellington Regional Hospital marks a new era in the history of health services in the region – it’s fitting almost 120 years since the first hospital was built we are about to move into our new modern facility.

What's in it for You?

The new Wellington Regional Hospital will have:

• Covered parking with internal access to the building – 270 carparks
• Covered single entry and drop off point – easier to find
• Atrium with landscaped courtyard which will feature part of the entrance façade of the 70 year old front block and a cafeteria
• State of the art theatres and a new neonatal unit with 40 cots – 8 more than previous levels
• Base isolators which allow health care to continue in the event of an emergency – can withstand 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Wellington/Hutt section of the Wellington fault and 8.2 magnitude event on the Wairarapa fault.
• Better public transport access to the front door
• Better access for people with disabilities
• A more intuitive design – it’s easier to get around once you’re inside
• Skylights providing more natural light
• Transit lounge for patients being transferred or going home
• Specimen collection centre so people don’t need to go to laboratories to have tests taken
• Hearing booth in Outpatients Department so children can have their hearing tested when going to ENT
• More convenient location of Women’s Health
• A larger Intensive Care Unit and more surgical recovery places
• 33% of beds located in single rooms – more treatment rooms on each ward floor

Note: we are currently looking to move the Children’s Hospital into the Grace Neil Block to give it a much greater area for specialised child and adolescent services.

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