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Theatres And Interventional Suites Blessed at Hospital
Media Release
Date: 12 July 2013
Theatres And Interventional Suites Blessed at Waikato Hospital
Every 90 minutes a person dies of a
cardiac event in New Zealand and a significant proportion of
those deaths are preventable with appropriate interventions,
says a leading cardiologist.
Dr Gerry Devlin, clinical chair of the Midland Regional Network and cardiology clinical unit leader at Waikato District Health Board (DHB) told guests at the blessings of new theatres and interventional suites at Waikato Hospital on Wednesday (10 July) that the new facilities would contribute to reducing that statistic in the Midland region.
Te Puna
Oranga, Waikato DHB’s Maori Health team, and the hospital
chaplaincy blessed levels 2 and 3 of the new theatres and
interventional suites in Meade Clinical Centre at an
early-morning ceremony in front of around 60 staff and
contractors.
The facilities, stage two of the $130
million Meade Clinical Centre build, boast advanced hybrid
and trauma theatres, minimally invasive interventional
services, and an array of the latest technologies.
The
cardiac catheterisation laboratories, have two new machines
each costing $1 million, are so cutting edge that they are
the first of their type in the country, said Dr Devlin.
Chief operating officer Jan Adams thanked all staff involved in the large project.
“Stage two is the most costly of all the building projects we have and it is exciting to see it all coming together. We have future proofed with spare theatres set aside,” she said.
“Currently we have 16 operating theatres including those in the Menzies Building.”
Features of the
new facilities include:
• Twenty one operating theatres
including:
o Four acute operating theatres with a $1.5
million hybrid theatre for multidisciplinary specialist
procedures. The hybrid operating theatre merges the
technology of a radiology suite with a standard operating
room for advanced hybrid image-guided minimally invasive
surgery. This will allow us to do complicated general,
vascular and trauma surgery
• pre and post operative
care areas for the operating theatres
• cardiac
catheterisation interventional suites with pre and post
recovery areas. This includes an advanced endovascular and
hybrid cardiac catheterisation laboratory for transcatheter
and combined cardiology/cardiac surgical procedures and an
electrophysiology procedure room
• new process
and procedures implemented for these services include:
o
Nursing Model of Care
o supply chain process
o
scheduling process
o Vocera (voice communications
between staff)
The first of the facilities to open
for patients is the Day of Surgery Admission on level 3 of
Meade Clinical Centre followed by:
o Operating theatres
and postanesthesia care units from 5 August with everything
going live by 12 August
o Cardiac catheterisation
laboratory suites will also open on Monday 5 August.
o
Interventional Radiology will open on 3 September.
ENDS
Waikato District Health Board
Healthy People. Excellent Care
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
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