This year's Anzac Day will mark the 90th anniversary of the opening of Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, the country's sole soldiers' memorial hospital.
Hawke's Bay District Health Board chief executive Kevin Snee said although the DHB held an Anzac Day service outside the hospital's Memorial Chapel every year, this week's commemorative service would be particularly special.
"Our Anzac Day services are always well attended by staff, locals, families and patients, who are able, who come to pay their respects," he said.
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"This year's service has an extra special meaning, given it will be the 90th anniversary of the hospital's official opening on Anzac Day 1928.
"The order of service will reflect on this, especially as after the Great War of 1914-1918 the people of Hastings chose to name their new hospital after soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom."
![Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Hastings, as it stands today.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/XIKAM5ZU7DU7SMTQ7OS2BUPSYA.jpg?auth=fa12bbace16c1e6592c9f335044f9b2aa8e34ab4c221614b58ccd631e8934498&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)