Middlemore Hospital is an 800 bed major hospital in the suburb of Otahuhu, Auckland City, New Zealand. The hospital was founded in 1947, and is the largest hospital operated by the Counties Manukau Health, and offers tertiary-level (hospital and specialist) care as well as a range of other health and social services for for the population of Counties Manukau - the area that stretches from Otahuhu to Port Waikato. Tertiary specialisations include general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery and burns, dentistry, as well as specialised medicine, rehabilitation, renal dialysis, and neonatal intensive care.
Middlemore Hospital is one of the largest tertiary teaching hospitals in New Zealand. Around 4,700 staff (equivalent of 3,500 full-time positions) provide treatment to more than 91,000 in-patients and over 354,000 out-patients or day-patients per year (data from approximately 2007).[1] It is also known to care for an above-average share of expecting mothers, staff generally delivering over 20 babies per day.[2]
The South Auckland Clinical School, which is part of the University of Auckland School of Medicine, is based in Middlemore Hospital.[3][1]
Inpatient services are also provided at other facilities, which include Kidz FirstChildren's Hospital, the Manukau Surgery Centre, Pukekohe Hospital, Franklin Memorial Hospital, Botany Downs Maternity Unit and Papakura Maternity Unit as well as dedicated mental health and rehabilitation units. Outpatient services are primarily provided at Manukau SuperClinic™ and Botany SuperClinic™.
New facilities
New Clinical Services Block (Harley Gray Building)
A new five-storey clinical services block was formally opened in April 2014 at a cost of NZ$ 190 million. This included: 14 new operating theatres, a 38-cot neonatal care unit, a 42-bed medical assessment unit, a 23-bed post-anaesthetic care unit, a 20-bed theatre admission and discharge unit, and a state-of-the-art central sterile supply department. The building was named after orthopaedic surgeon Harley Gray who was an orthopaedic surgeon at Middlemore until 2001 and was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2003.
The Ko Awatea Centre was built in 2011 at a cost of NZ$ 10 million with a mandate to lead an innovative approach to achieving sustainable, high-quality healthcare services. It was designed to to be a hub of education, improvement and innovation to support health systems and public services – foremost to support Counties Manukau Health, but also locally, nationally and internationally. Ko Awatea is also a centre of education dedicated to meeting the needs of students, CMH staff and visitors through education, leadership and professional development.
The name, Ko Awatea, means ‘first light'. The name was gifted from tangata whenua, indicative of the value that Maori place on Ko Awatea and its role in CMH.
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Edmund Hillary Block
The Edmund Hillary Block is a six-storey in-patient building built in 2009 that added 240 in-patient beds, and 12,600m2 of space to the Middlemore Campus. It included: a 15 bed mental health services for older people (MHSOP) ward, a 30 -bed plastics ward, 2 x 30 - bed surgical wards, 2 x 30 - bed medical wards, a 30 Bed gastroenterology ward, a cardiac investigation unit, a medical short stay unit, a haematology day ward and clinic, allied health offices and gymnasium, a new Staff cafeteria, and the clinical equipment pool and orthotics.
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Burn Ward
In June 2006, the hospital opened its new burns treatment ward, the National Burn Centre. The facility cost NZ$ 7.2 million to construct and equip, and treats the most complex burn cases from all over the country, as well as around 400 local and regional burn cases per year.[4]
Intensive Care Ward
In June 2008, a new intensive care unit was commissioned for NZ$ 6.4 million, described as New Zealand's most advanced. The unit provides 18 beds instead of the previous 7, and capacity will be for treatment of about 1,000 patients per year. The unit also has a shower room to bathe patients confined to their beds as well as two pressure rooms for treatment of patients with transmissible infections (or those especially vulnerable to them). Also improved were the available storage spaces, allowing more room for patients, family and working staff.[5]
Affiliated facilities
Manukau Surgery Centre
Manukau Surgery Centre, provides day surgery services and elective and acute arranged surgery for patients who are not expected to need access to intensive care or interventional radiology. The Surgery Centre has 10 operating theatres, 2 procedure rooms and 78 inpatient beds. Surgery performed includes: orthopaedic surgery including joint replacement; general surgery; colorectal surgery; breast surgery including breast reconstruction; gynaecological procedures; plastic surgery; ORL/ ENT and ophthalmology.
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Manukau SuperClinic
Manukau SuperClinic™ provides specialist outpatient appointments and day procedures. Services provided in each Module are:
Module 1: Orthopaedics
Module 2: Anaesthetics Pre-Admission & Laboratory
Module 3: Otolaryngology (ENT) & Audiology
Module 4: Paediatric Medicine
Module 5: Plastic & Hand Surgery
Module 6: Ophthalmology & Paediatric Ophthalmology
Module 7: Neurology, General Medicine & Medical Sub-Specialties and Oncology
Module 8 & 9: General Surgery, Vascular, Breast & Mammography Service and Chronic Pain
Module 10: Women's Health, Urology & General Surgery Pre-admission
Kidz First Children's Hospital
The Kidz First Children's Hospital is purpose built to deliver family centred health care and serve the culturally diverse Counties Manukau community.
Services provided at Kidz First Children's Hospital include: Paediatric inpatient surgical care - acute and elective orthopaedic, plastics (including specialist Paediatric Burns Unit) and otorhinolaryngeal. Paediatric inpatient medical care - acute paediatric specialist medical service. Child protection service - medical assessment, consultation, support, education and liaison with all agencies with regards to child abuse/protection issues.
References
^ abMiddlemore Hospital (database entry on 'healthpoint.co.nz' website. Accessed 2008-02-24.)
