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Wakari Hospital

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Wakari continued as a geriatric and psychiatric care facility, the geriatric wards gradually being wound down through the nineties with government reforms to privatise long-term care. The care of the elderly assessment and rehabilitation wards were transferred back to
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was being redeveloped in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the Nurses' home was leased to the University for use as a student hostel, this being taken back with the closure of the
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It contains specialised psychiatric services but also cares for people with intellectual disability and people undergoing physical rehabilitation. It has units for
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already owns. Continuing consideration is being given to whether all the site needs to be retained and it has been proposed that some more land be sold to
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Currently the main block is being redeveloped to house a variety of out-reach services such as
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and increasingly community out-reach services such as public health and district nursing.
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From 1915 the site was initially an infectious diseases centre, and later a
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Coordinates
45°51′32″S 170°28′22″E / 45.858994°S 170.472783°E / -45.858994; 170.472783
Care system
Type
Emergency department
http://www.southerndhb.govt.nz/
Hospitals in New Zealand
hospital
Dunedin
Wakari
Te Whatu Ora
Southern District Health Board
Dunedin Hospital
forensic psychiatry
psychiatric emergency services
Māori
rehabilitation
sanatorium
Dunedin Hospital
Cherry Farm Hospital
Dunedin Hospital
Public Health
District Nursing
Southern District Health Board
Leslie Groves Hospital
"Wakari Hospital - Ministry of Health Profile"
Ministry of Health
Southern District Health Board
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