Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
Wellington Hospital is Wellington, New Zealand's main hospital located in the suburb of Newtown. It is the main hospital run by Capital & Coast District Health Board (C&CDHB), the others including Kapiti Health Centre, and Kenepuru Hospital. Wellington Hospital is the region's tertiary hospital with services such as complex specialist and acute (or ‘tertiary’) services, procedures and treatments such as the Intensive Care Unit, cardiac surgery, cancer care, cardiology procedures, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery, and renal care. The Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for the lower half of the North Island and the upper half of the South Island, including the Chatham Islands.It is affiliated with the University of Otago and has The Wellington school of Medicine and Health Sciences situated adjacent to the hospital.C&CDHB has built a new regional hospital on the existing site known as the NRH Project, the programme of work included demolition of some of the older buildings, refurbishment/upgrade of others and the construction of a new main building including wards spread over 47,830 sq metres - this project was completed in December 2008, at a cost of NZ$265m. The rebuild included a new state-of-the-art 18-bed Intensive Care Unit, a new operating theatre complex, and the uniting of medical & surgical wards into a single building. The newly named Wellington Regional Hospital has been built to withstand considerable earthquake shock waves using technology similar to that used in the construction of Te Papa, New Zealand's National Museum.