Wakari Hospital

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Wakari Hospital
Otago District Health Board
Wakari Hospital Dunedin New Zealand.jpg
Main Block entrance, Wakari Hospital in 2008
Wakari Hospital
Geography
LocationTaieri Road, Dunedin, New Zealand
Coordinates 45°51′32″S170°28′22″E / 45.858994°S 170.472783°E / -45.858994; 170.472783 Coordinates: 45°51′32″S170°28′22″E / 45.858994°S 170.472783°E / -45.858994; 170.472783
Organisation
Care system Publicly funded
Type Psychiatric
Services
Emergency department Psychiatric
Beds90 [1]
History
Opened1915
Links
Website http://www.southerndhb.govt.nz/
Lists Hospitals in New Zealand

Wakari Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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It is situated in the suburb of Wakari, about three kilometres north-west of the city centre. The hospital is operated by the Southern District Health Board (formerly Otago District Health Board) and is closely associated with Dunedin Public Hospital.

It contains specialised psychiatric services but also cares for people with intellectual disability and people undergoing physical rehabilitation. It has units for forensic psychiatry, psychiatric emergency services, long- and short-term secure psychiatric units, Māori mental health, physical rehabilitation and increasingly community out-reach services such as public health and district nursing.

History

From 1915 the site was initially an infectious diseases centre, and later a sanatorium. In 1957 it was redeveloped as a general hospital, serving as the main Otago hospital while the Dunedin Hospital was being redeveloped in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the Nurses' home was leased to the University for use as a student hostel, this being taken back with the closure of the Cherry Farm Hospital in 1992.

Changing uses

Wakari continued as a geriatric and psychiatric care facility, the geriatric wards gradually being wound down through the nineties with government reforms to privatise long-term care. The care of the elderly assessment and rehabilitation wards were transferred back to Dunedin Hospital. Attempts were made to sell the main block of the hospital, which found occasional use as a facility for live-in drug trials and even a temporary accommodation during important rugby tests.

Current directions

Currently the main block is being redeveloped to house a variety of out-reach services such as Public Health and District Nursing, moving out of expensive leased premises and centralising in properties the Otago District Health Board already owns. Continuing consideration is being given to whether all the site needs to be retained and it has been proposed that some more land be sold to Leslie Groves Hospital.

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References

  1. "Wakari Hospital - Ministry of Health Profile". health.govt.nz. Ministry of Health.