Capital & Coast District Health Board / March 2022
Capital & Coast District Health Board (C&C DHB) is the leading provider of specialist health services in the central region of New Zealand. We deliver health services from Wellington, Kenepuru, and Paraparaumu, as well as from various community bases.
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Overcoming barriers to communication
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Nurse Educator Zoe Perkins, who is based in Wellington Regional Hospital’s Ward 6 North - Orthopaedic and Urology, recently reached out to the Disability Strategy team for guidance on caring for a Deaf consumer, Sean.
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Marking a milestone: new Wellington children’s hospital one step closer
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Capital & Coast DHB (CCDHB) has entered a new phase of the journey to a new children’s hospital for the region, with practical completion of its new building now achieved.
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Changes to requirements to scan
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- From 11.59pm Friday 25 March, scanning when entering our hospitals will no longer be compulsory
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Kenepuru Community Hospital is now open to visits by kaitiaki and partners in care only
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Kenepuru Community Hospital is now open to visits by kaitiaki and partners in care only. The hospital remains temporarily closed to general inpatient visitors. This will be reassessed again early next week.
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Kenepuru Community Hospital to remain temporarily closed to visitors
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Kenepuru Community Hospital remains temporarily closed to all visitors due to the need for additional surveillance testing after a small number of additional patients tested positive for COVID-19.
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Hospital upgrades to enhance care and COVID-19 response
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Work to boost hospital resilience underway in both the Hutt Valley and Wellington will help ensure the continuation of safe care and support for both COVID-19 and non-COVID patients.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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People asked to be kind while awaiting rapid antigen tests
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs ask people to be patient and kind – both to one another and to staff – at the region’s community testing centres (CTCs) following widespread abusive, aggressive, and violent behaviour and treatment.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dr Junior Ulu: what is Care in the Community?
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- The COVID-19 Care in the Community Framework was set up by the Ministry of Heath, which ensures that people with COVID-19 receive the support they need. It’s a regionally coordinated, locally-led approach to managing COVID-19 patients and their whānau, understanding that local health and welfare providers know their communities best.
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World Hearing Day 2022: Listening right
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Today (March 3) marks World Hearing Day and this ‘ear’, the theme is ‘To hear for life, listen with care’.
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Visiting our Emergency Department
- Capital & Coast District Health Board
- Te Pae Tiaki Wellington ED has a number of precautions and screening measures in place in place to manage COVID-19 – this can lead to longer wait times.
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