Auckland City Hospital

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The new section of the hospital.

The older section of the hospital, as seen from the Auckland Domain.

The Auckland City Hospital is Auckland's main hospital and the largest hospital in New Zealand.^[1] It is run by the Auckland District Health Board. Located in the suburb of Grafton, east of the CBD, it has 3,500 rooms and provides a total of 710 beds.^[2].

The hospital is a research and teaching facility as well, providing training for future doctors, nurses, midwives and other health professionals. Rare or complex medical conditions from all over New Zealand may get referred here. The hospital is closely associated with the Starship Children's Health, another major facility on the same grounds, located just to the northwest of the City Hospital.

1 History
2 Facilities and floors
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The current hospital facility, opened in 2003, is an amalgam of four previously separate hospitals: Auckland Hospital (acute adult care), Starship (acute children's care), Green Lane Hospital (cardio-thoracic care) and National Women's Hospital (maternity, new-born and gynecology).^[1]

The hospital is situated in a NZ$180 million new building which was built between 2000 and 2003.^[2] It is nine levels high (ten including plant), five levels less than the older part of the hospital, which has now become the support building. The new structure with 75,575 m² ^[2] is one of New Zealand's largest public buildings. It was designed by Jasmax and built by Fletcher Construction. ^[3]

[edit] Facilities and floors

The following information are excerpts from the construction company's database^[2]:

Level 01 - Clinical record & medical waste / waste storage
Level 02 - Children’s & adults emergency departments
Level 03 - Cardiology general and specialist wards
Level 04 - Operating theatres (7), intensive care units
Level 05 - Radiology centre
Level 06 - General medicine, dermatology, infectious diseases, oncology and haematology wards
Level 07 - General surgery, trauma, orthopaedic, rheumatology, gastrology, urology and respiratoy wards
Level 08 - Operating theatres (13), neurology, medical physics wards,
Level 09 - Operating theatres (3), pre- and postnatal care, neonatal intensive care units
Level 10 - Plant rooms (air conditioning etc...)

The support building (old hospital) mostly contains administrative offices, clinical and housekeeping support, physio- and occupational therapy, some inpatient and outpatient services as well as teaching and research facilities. The support building is a central part of the hospital complex and is linked to the new building section by a skywalk.^[4]