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Christchurch Hospital is the largest
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in the
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of New Zealand. The public hospital is in the centre of
Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River ...
city, on the edge of Hagley Park, and serves the wider
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region. The
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(CDHB) operates the hospital with funding from the government. Christchurch Hospital is the major trauma centre for northern and central Canterbury, and the tertiary major trauma centre for the wider Canterbury and West Coast regions. It has the busiest ED in the South Island and sees more major trauma than any other hospital in New Zealand, and all but a handful of hospitals in Australia. The Christchurch School of Medicine is on the hospital campus, the school provides teaching for fourth, fifth and sixth year medical students, and is part of the University of Otago. A new building, sitting behind the original Christchurch Hospital buildings, named ‘Waipapa’ was opened in 2020 and houses Canterbury DHB’s acute services. Christchurch Hospital’s Emergency Department is now located within Waipapa. The hospital’s helipad now sits atop of the Waipapa building, and replaces the previous one situated in Hagley Park, to the southwest along Hagley Avenue.


History

The Provincial Government voted £1,500 to building the hospital in Christchurch in 1861. The initial building was a two-storied "barn-like structure" on Hagley Park at Riccarton Avenue. It opened on 1 June 1862, after "Hands off Hagley" protests by citizens. The last of the original buildings were demolished in 1917. In 2009, the CDHB announced a
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400 million proposal to replace some of the hospital buildings, including a new 450-bed hospital, a rooftop helipad and additional operating theatres. The construction was due to start in 2011, and be expected to take three years. Following the earthquakes, construction plans were scrapped and over the next five years, the Burwood Health Campus and the Christchurch Hospital underwent a $650 million redevelopment. This is the biggest ever investment in public health facilities in New Zealand. At Christchurch Hospital, the new Acute Services Building, now named Waipapa, has: * 62,000m2 total area * 13 lifts in the building * Built with steel framing (6,000 tonnes of structural steel and over 100,000 bolts) with a curtain wall made up of 1,300 panels * Lots of natural light * Significant seismic protection in the building – apart from the base isolators there is a large amount of seismic bracing, gaps in the stairs to allow movement and special joints in the pipes that run services such as hot water, steam and air conditioning * Tower A (Level 3 – 9) – General Surgery wards, Vascular, Stroke, Children’s medical, Children’s Haematology and Oncology Centre (CHOC) and the helipad * Tower B (Level 3 – 8) – Neurology and Neuro Surgery, Children’s Surgery, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer support, Oncology, Orthopedics and General Surgery * Level 2 – Sterile Services and administration areas * Level 1 – Intensive Care, Theatres and Radiology * Ground Floor – Emergency Department, Medical Assessment, Acute Care and Radiology * The Lower Ground Floor has meeting rooms, shared work spaces and changing rooms for staff. The hospital played a key role in treating casualties of the February
2011 Christchurch earthquake A major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC, 21 February). The () earthquake struck the entire of the Canterbury region in the South Island, centred south-east ...
, admitting 164 people with serious injuries. The quake also caused the evacuation of one ward. The hospital also played a key role in the immediate aftermath of the
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, admitting 49 people with injuries from the shooting, two of whom later died in the hospital.


Notable people

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Courtney Nedwill Courtney Nedwill (14 August 1837 – 10 April 1920) was a New Zealand doctor and public health officer. He was born in Ballyronan, County Londonderry, Ireland. He is said to have been "one of Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi ...
(1837–1920), public health officer with a 30-year connection to the hospital


See also

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List of hospitals in New Zealand This is a list of hospitals in New Zealand. It includes hospitals certified by the Ministry of Health, such as public hospitals, maternity centres, private surgical centres, psychiatric hospitals and hospices. It does not include facilities whi ...
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Nurses' Memorial Chapel The Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, is registered as a Category I heritage building. The chapel is significant as New Zealand's first hospital chapel, and as the country's only World War I memorial solely dedicated ...
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Princess Margaret Hospital, Christchurch Princess Margaret Hospital is a public hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is run by the Canterbury District Health Board. History The SEGAR block was opened on 31 August 1959 as a general hospital, but is primarily used for older persons ...


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