Taranaki Base Hospital’s new $80 million building will “go live” on Monday 5th August 2013 as three years of construction draw to an end. The hospital redevelopment, Project Maunga, is on track to come in on time and on budget when it is officially opened early in 2014. Kaumatua from across Taranaki have blessed the new hospital at a dawn ceremony in preparation for staff and patients to move across to the new building. Services will start to move in now although the building will not be finished until the end of the year. The old building will then be demolished. The first patients will be moved to TSB Ward 2B (children and young people) on Monday morning and from there each area has a designated moving day for the remainder of the week. Visiting times in the wards will continue to be from 2pm to 8pm.There will be a four-storey link between the new construction, through what is now the in-patient block, to connect with the rest of the hospital.
