One of Helen Johnson s twin daughters suffered brain damage due to medical mistakes at Hutt Hospital.
Women who have miscarried will no longer sit next to those who are still pregnant, and sick babies and their families will be socially distanced following a multi-million dollar refit of maternity facilities at Hutt Hospital. Work on the $9.4 million upgrade of maternity services will begin next month and continue into 2023. It will nearly triple the size of the ward, and give patients and staff more privacy and space. But a midwife shortage continues to batter the service. In January 85 women turned up at the hospital because of a shortage of community midwives.
She would have liked the opportunity to make the decision to follow her doctor or to stay at the practice before the staff left. “You spend years building a rapport with your doctor. We should have been given the chance to consult with our doctor, so we could make decisions on what we were going to do.” The exodus of clinical staff follows the resignation of the centre’s directors in November last year. In December, Te Rūnanganui o Te Āti Awa announced that chief executive Wirangi Luke had been appointed as the centre’s sole director. Luke said the medical centre had run as a separate business for the last 12 years, but late last year it became clear that the centre had financial issues and the rūnanga, aligned with Waiwhetu Marae, had to take control of it.
Resident s decline was accelerated by problems at her Lower Hutt rest home, son claims
22 Dec, 2020 07:19 PM
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Woburn Masonic Care home in Hutt has been at the centre of an investigation into complaints of abuse and neglect. Photo / Supplied
RNZ
By Phil Pennington, of RNZ
The son of a woman who died aged 100 in a troubled Lower Hutt rest home claims its systemic problems absolutely accelerated her decline .
The Woburn Masonic Care home in the Hutt s wealthiest suburb is having its management overhauled amid an official investigation into five complaints of abuse and neglect.
Hutt Valley District Health Board has now intervened to force change at the Masonic Villages Trust, eight months after the DHB was alerted by the Health and Disability Commissioner.
The son of a woman who died aged 100 in a troubled Lower Hutt resthome claims its systemic problems accelerated her decline.
Woburn Masonic Care home in Hutt has been at the centre of an investigation into complaints of abuse and neglect.
Photo: Woburn Masonic Care Trust
The Woburn Masonic Care home in the Hutt s wealthiest suburb is having its management overhauled amid an official investigation into five complaints of abuse and neglect.
Hutt Valley District Health Board has now intervened to force change at the Masonic Villages Trust, eight months after the DHB was alerted by the Health and Disability Commissioner.
The son of a woman who died aged 100 in a troubled Lower Hutt resthome claims its systemic problems accelerated her decline.
The Woburn Masonic Care home in the Hutt s wealthiest suburb is having its management overhauled amid an official investigation into five complaints of abuse and neglect.
Hutt Valley District Health Board has now intervened to force change at the Masonic Villages Trust, eight months after the DHB was alerted by the Health and Disability Commissioner.
The DHB was separately made aware of the issues around the culture and managing of Woburn last year.
After meeting residents and staff this month, the DHB spurred the trust to bring in a new temporary manager, as well as take on two DHB personnel in clinical support.