{"id":586781,"date":"2026-09-01T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586781\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:16:14","slug":"planning-for-hawkes-bay-hospital-multi-storey-acute-services-building-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586781\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital multi-storey acute services building underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPlanning and design is underway for a new multi-storey acute services building,\u201d Trotter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Acute or unplanned care is urgent healthcare for illness or injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The hospital\u2019s current acute assessment unit is a 20-bed unit next to the emergency department. It assesses and treats patients expected to stay less than 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The old nurses' home on the grounds of Hawke's Bay Hospital. Photo \/ Jack Riddell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The old nurses&#8217; home on the grounds of Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hospital. Photo \/ Jack Riddell<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">A source told Hawke\u2019s Bay Today the planned location for the new building was the site of the old nurses\u2019 homes, adjacent to Omahu Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Asked about this, Trotter said no final decisions had been made on the building\u2019s exact location, height, scope or design, with these matters subject to further planning and approval processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">National\u2019s Hawke\u2019s Bay MPs, Catherine Wedd for Tukituki and Katie Nimon for Napier, said the Government had committed to funding the hospital\u2019s upgrade and redevelopment, including a new radiology department and a 28-bed modular inpatient ward. A $44.8 million cancer centre is also progressing, due in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPlanning and design is underway for a new multi-storey acute services building,\u201d Trotter said. Acute or unplanned care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[58301,1561,674,2082,5194,1976,134,527,2241,288947,111,139,69,26346,660,1321,58455],"class_list":["post-586781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-acute","tag-bay","tag-building","tag-for","tag-hastings","tag-hawkes","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-multistorey","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-planned","tag-planning","tag-services","tag-underway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586781","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=586781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}