With the opening of Te Wao Nui Child Health Service and
Hospital, The New Zealand Community Trust’s (NZCT)
contribution of $1 million in child health for the region
has already made a difference and this will be
ongoing.
NZCT’s generous grant of $1 million, as
part of the $10 million needed to outfit and equip the
interior of the region’s new children’s hospital has
meant this work was completed. This included funding
specialised medical equipment, as well as all the fittings,
furnishings, communications, digital and creative aspects of
this new purpose built paediatric facility.
NZCT
Chair, Alan Isaac said “NZCT welcomed the opportunity to
play a significant part in helping complete the new regional
children’s hospital. As one of the biggest grants that
NZCT has made, we are honoured to partner with Wellington
Hospitals Foundation and Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
and equip this much needed new service for children and
families across central New Zealand.”
Wellington
Hospitals Foundation Chair Bill Day said, “We are
privileged to partner with people who are passionate about
child health. Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital has
a long history of community support, and we are immensely
grateful to NZCT for their incredible investment in this
critical regional project. Their support will help improve
the health and well-being of thousands of sick tamariki and
rangatahi across our wider area.”
Te Wao Nui Child
Health Service and Hospital, in the Mark Dunajtschik and
Dorothy Spotswood building, will be a lifeline for families
across our region. With a large catchment area, the new
tertiary level hospital will provide exceptional high level
health care to almost a million people in the lower North
and upper South islands.
Under a new hub and spoke
model of care, critically and chronically sick children will
be referred from smaller centres for major operations,
specialist consultations and when lifesaving emergency and
intensive care treatment is required.
NZCT are one of
the largest funders of amateur sports and other cultural and
charitable causes in the country including health, returning
proceeds raised via local kiwi hospitality businesses to
assist sports teams and community groups across New
Zealand.
Bill Day said, “We are also very grateful
to the many thousands of individual, community and corporate
donors who have helped turn the dream of a new children’s
hospital into a stunning
reality.”
Background
information
· In 2020/21 NZCT distributed
more than $43m to amateur sports clubs, surf lifesaving
services, education, playgrounds, health, the arts, and
cultural and community groups throughout the
country.
· The total cost of the project is
$110m.
– Mark Dunajtschik and Dorothy Spotswood –
$50m
– Wellington Hospitals Foundation – $10m $1m from
NZCT
– Government – ($25m to the build, $21m initial
site clearance)
– CCDHB now Te Whatu Ora – Health
New Zealand –
$4m
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