Wards at Waikato Hospital

Antenatal Ward 54 Burns/Plastics Ward 7 General Medicine Ward 23 General Surgery Ward 12 Gynaecology Ward 51 Newborn Intensive Care Unit Orthopaedics Ward 26 Postnatal Ward 55 Respiratory Ward 22

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Ward 7 - Burns, plastics and maxillo-facial surgery

• Location:
  7th floor, Menzies Building
  
  
• About the ward:
  25 beds, caring for all ages
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Normal visiting rules apply

Ward 12 - General Surgery

• Location:
  2nd floor, Menzies Building
  
  
• About the ward:
  27 beds
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  No visiting between 1.30pm - 2.30pm - patients rest period.

Ward 22 - Respiratory

• Location:
  2nd floor, Smith building
  
  
• About the ward:
  26 bed ward, single, twin and four bedded rooms.
  Rooms allocated by patient need.
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  No visiting between 1.30pm - 2.30pm - patients rest period.
  Overnight stay by one family member by arrangement only.

Ward 23 - General Medicine

• Location:
  Level 3, Smith building
  
  
• About the ward:
  27 beds
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Visiting hours are from 11am - 8pm with a strict rest period from 1.30pm - 2.30pm unless prior approval has been arranged with the clinical nurse manager.
  
  There are a number of factors including isolation requirements that may impact on the number/type of visitors and this should be discussed with nursing staff.
  
  Visitors after 8pm will be required to produce a visitor’s pass.
  

Ward 26 - Adult/Paediatric Orthopaedic Care

• Location:
  Level 6, Smith Building
  
  
• About the ward:
  27 beds - Four single rooms and the remainder are four-bed rooms.
  Rooms allocated by patient need.
  Specific rooms for children.
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Family visiting is encouraged as this is a paediatric environment.

Ward 51 - Inpatient Gynaecology

• Location:
  Level 1, Elizabeth Rothwell Building
  
  
• About the ward:
  20 beds
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Normal visiting rules apply

Ward 54 - Antenatal Ward

• Location:
  Level 4, Elizabeth Rothwell Building
  
  
• About the ward:
  16 beds 10 single rooms, two with ensuites and two multi bedded rooms.
  
  Available to all women: washing machine and dryer, hair dryer, DVD library, book library, puzzles and games. The ward also encourages Art for Health - please enquire at the reception area.
  
  Due to the nature of the admission within Ward 54, accommodation is available at Hilda Ross. This may or may not be funded according to the National Travel Assistance criteria. Please ask at reception for information regarding accommodation. Subsidised parking tickets are available from our receptionist to assist with costs.
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Family and friends all welcome between 7am and 10pm

Ward 55 - Postnatal Ward

• Location:
  Level 5, Elizabeth Rothwell Building
  
  
• About the ward:
  24 beds - 10 single rooms, one double and three four-bedded rooms.
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Chidren are welcome and must be supervised at all times. They are unable to stay overnight.
  
  No visitors after 8pm.
  
  No visitors with potentially contagious infections such as the flu, measles.
  
  Under special circumstances partner or support person MAY be able to stay overnight to support and assist unwell mother or baby. This requires negotiation with the ward coordinator at the time.

Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

• Location:
  Level B1, Elizabeth Rothwell building
  and Level 4, Elizabeth Rothwell building (Ward 54 nursery)
  
  
• About the ward:
  Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) - 41 cots with three levels of care.
  
  Level 3 has 15 intensive care cots catering for premature infants from 24 weeks gestation to sick term infants with a variety of life threatening conditions requiring intensive medical/nursing interventions.
  Level 2 has 14 high dependency cots catering for infants requiring low level respiratory support, support with feeding, needing medical investigations and treatment of high jaundice levels.
  
  Level 1 consists of 10 cots and the facility of two rooming – in beds for mums to stay with their baby in preparation to go home (located in Ward 54 nursery).
  
  
• Specific visiting rules:
  Parents are able to visit 24 hours. Visitors for babies must have parental permission.
  
  Quiet hour for nurseries is 1pm - 2pm, so visitors preferred to come outside these times. 
  
  Two visitors per baby at a time. No children under two years old are not permitted into the nurseries unless a direct sibling and during winter months June-Oct (dates on the Unit entry door) no under two year olds are allowed in the nurseries.
  
  Cell-phones MUST be turned off in the nurseries, including use for photos, due to signal interference with medical equipment.
  
  ALL visitors must adhere to strict hand washing on entering the nursery, to reduce risk of transmitting germs to babies. Anybody who is unwell themselves e.g have a cold, should not come to visit and may be asked to leave the nursery, due to the life threartening risk to the babies.
  
  During doctors rounds and nursing handover visitors are requested to leave the nursery in order to maintain confidentiality and privacy. When individual babies are being discussed parents may be present but then asked to leave once discussion of their baby has finished.