Ormiston Hospital at Flat Bush: new wing and expanded capacity. That extension is the tan-and-cream building in the centre. The older part is to the far left near the street.
Ormiston Hospital at Flat Bush: new wing and expanded capacity. That extension is the tan-and-cream building in the centre. The older part is to the far left near the street.
A privately owned, $83 million Auckland hospital has doubled in size with a $38 million extension and a $3m robot to cater for the area’s growing population.
Aaron Hockly, lead executive at NZX-listed Vital Healthcare Property Trust, said the first patients were treated at Ormiston Hospital in the past fewweeks.
An official opening is planned for next month.
More diagnostic and surgical facilities have been added to Ormiston Hospital at Flat Bush. Photo / Vital Healthcare Property Trust
“It was only a fortnight ago that the hospital has been able to operate at full capacity,” Hockly said of the expansion, fully funded by Vital with fit-outs funded by tenants.
Savoury Construction built the new tan-and-cream-coloured wing, starting on the job two years ago.
The new wing at Ormiston Hospital in Flat Bush, with the older building on the left. Photo / Vital Healthcare Property Trust
An extra 4500sq m of floor space over three levels has been added at 125 Ormiston Rd.
Vital, with healthcare properties in New Zealand and Australia, owns $3.2 billion of assets. It has a $1.3b market cap and debt is also at $1.3b.
The business owns the hospital, which is operated by Ormiston Surgical & Endoscopy. Southern Cross Healthcare is that company’s major shareholder with a group of surgeons and other investors.
Space for 15 extra beds has been added to the privately owned Ormiston Hospital in Flat Bush, Auckland. Photo / Vital Healthcare Property Trust
Ormiston Hospital chief executive Deb Boyd said the new Da Vinci robot would be used for urology, general and gynaecological surgery.
“This is very precision-driven surgery, so a robot is the gold standard for treating patients with certain procedures,” she said.
The hospital was purpose-built in 2008 as a stand-alone, three-level building, but the new addition is at a perpendicular angle.
Hockly said more space meant residents who needed endoscopy and other surgical procedures would no longer be forced to go to the city or North Shore.
“Endoscopy is becoming a more common procedure. We’ve got some of the worst gut health and other problems in this country. Obesity is part of it, but we haven’t had the preventive procedures via imaging or scans, getting people diagnosed earlier and sooner. The public and private medical service had under-serviced demand for endoscopy,” Hockly said.
Inside the expanded Ormiston Hospital at Flat Bush. Photo / Vital Healthcare Property Trust
At Wellington’s Wakefield Hospital, Vital’s tenants were expanding their endoscopy services in an investment worth nearly $170m, he said.
Vital, with partner associates Healthcare Holdings and Evolution Healthcare, is also expanding capacity at Endoscopy Auckland in Epsom. That facility is doubling its size in the $32.2m expansion.
