2018 - Funding received for improving facilities at Whangarei and Bay of Islands Hospitals | Jim Carney Cancer Centre gets a Facelift | Refurbished Pou

In October 2018, seven men from Programmed Property Services volunteered on a Saturday morning to give the BNZ Community Wall inside the Jim Carney Cancer Treatment Centre a facelift, with paint donated by our local Dulux team.

The BNZ Community Wall was part of the Project Promise fundraising programme managed on behalf of Northland DHB by Northland Community Foundation. More than 400 bricks were sold during the Project Promise campaign, and even now, people continue to support the ongoing work of the Centre by buying a ‘brick’.

In late September, the Minister of Health Dr David Clark announced Northland DHB  would be receiving more than $30 million towards improving facilities at Whangārei Hospital and the development of a combined outpatient and  general practice facility at Bay of Islands Hospital.

Northland DHB submitted single stage business cases for a number of projects seen as critical in creating adequate capacity while redevelopment of Whangārei Hospital is planned.

These projects include a Whangārei Hospital Theatre extension, a new Endoscopy Suite and Cardiac Catheter Laboratory. This interim work will enable our organisation to meet the demand for the immediate to short-term – the next 5–10 years.

On December 11 people gathered at sun rise to bless the refurbished Pou at Tumanako Mental Health Inpatient Unit. The Pou definitely needed the care and attention from Simon Cooper who completely refurbished the Pou treasures.