Work has started on a new hospital extension in central\u00a0Christchurch.<\/p>\n
Fort\u00e9 Health, in collaboration with property partners NHL and Mainland Capital, broke ground on its major Kilmore St hospital expansion on Monday.<\/p>\n
The new\u00a06000sq m facility will triple Fort\u00e9 Hospital’s bed capacity and nearly double theatre space when it opens in mid-2027.<\/p>\n
Its four operating theatres, 39 beds and special care unit will allow it to perform more complex operations, such as joint replacements, bariatric and cancer surgery.<\/p>\n
The site was blessed yesterday at a ceremony involving mana whenua, Fort\u00e9 staff and stakeholders.<\/p>\n
Fort\u00e9 Health chief executive Michael Woodhouse said the new facility was being built in response to increasing demand from surgeons and patients.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemand for the services Fort\u00e9 can offer is increasing, and this trend is likely to continue as our population ages,\u201d Woodhouse said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe expansion will further enhance Canterbury\u2019s position as a significant hub for private healthcare services, with the enhanced facility expected to attract patients from across the South Island.”<\/p>\n
Woodhouse said the project was a boost for Canterbury\u2019s construction sector. The completed facility will create more nursing jobs and include a graduate nursing programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cA tremendous amount of work has gone into getting to the start of a project that will see the expanded facility commissioned in mid-2027 with the overall project completed by the end of 2027,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The foundation works were contracted separately, with the process of selecting the main contractor well under way.<\/p>\n
The tender will close in early October, after which construction work\u00a0is set to start at the site in mid-November.<\/p>\n
It comes after Fort\u00e9\u00a0opened its fifth operating theatre in January, which has allowed it to perform an additional 1800 surgeries a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work has started on a new hospital extension in central\u00a0Christchurch. Fort\u00e9 Health, in collaboration with property partners NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}