Waikato Hospital

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Name = Waikato Hospital
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Location = Hamilton
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Country = New Zealand
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Type = Specialist, Teaching
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Beds = 600
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Website = http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/WDHB/default.asp?Content=9
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Waikato Hospital is a major regional hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand. It provides specialised and emergency healthcare [http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/WDHB/default.asp?Content=9 Waikato Hospital] (from the Waikato District health Board website. Retrieved 2007-10-09.)] for the Midlands and Waikato area with patients referred there from feeder hospitals like Whakatane, Lakes area, Tauranga, Thames, Tokoroa and Rotorua." [http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0708/S00046.htm Waikato Hospital in Overload for Fourth Day in Row] " - Waikato District Health Board media release, via "Scoop", Friday 10 August 2007]

Facilities

The hospital provides 600 beds and employs approximately 2,500 staff. It treats approximately 39,350 inpatients and 161,500 outpatients, and has around 3,000 births annually. Specialist services include:

* Anaesthesiology * Cardiac surgery / cardiology * Dermatology * Emergency medicine * Gastroenterology * General surgery * Gynaecology

* Haematology * Intensive care / Neonatal intensive care * Obstetrics * Oncology * Ophthalmology * Orthopedic surgery

* Oral and maxillofacial surgery * Otolaryngology * Paediatric surgery * Paediatrics * Plastic surgery * Psychology * Radiology

* Renal care * Respiratory care * Urological care * Vascular surgery

The centre is the main trauma facility for the area, and close connection to road and air transport (air ambulances, helicopter or fixed wing plane) allow patient-hospital transport in less than an hour from any place in the region.

Other services

The hospital has an academic division of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Auckland, acting as a teaching and training centre for undergraduates and postgraduate medical and allied health science students. There is a dedicated training facility, the Bryant Education Centre. Research is also undertaken in cooperation with the Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre and the University of Waikato.

The hospital also has five chaplains who help perform social services and provide counseling, assisted by volunteers. The services are part-funded by the Ministry of Health, churches and donations. [" [http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikatotimes/4210158a6579.html Hospital kindness strapped for cash] " - "Waikato Times", Saturday 22 September 2007] The hospital also operates 'Hilda Ross House', a hospital hotel owned by the District Health Board.

History

Sir Archibald McIndoe, the eminent plastic surgeon, trained as a house surgeon at Waikato hospital prior to working in the US, and UK with his cousin Harold Gillies.Fact|date=March 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.waikatodhb.govt.nz/WDHB/default.asp?Content=9 Waikato Hospital] (official hospital website from the Waikato District Health Board)