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Te Puna Oranga (Māori Health service)

Mihi

Ka tū whera te tatau pounamu o te Ao
E takoto te whāriki o te Atua ki mua i a tātou
He hōnore, he korōria ki te Atua
He maungārongo ki te whenua
He whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa
Ka huri te kei o te waka ki te Kīngi a Tūheitia
Me te whare Kāhui Ariki whānau whānui tonu
Mā te Atua e tiaki, e manaaki i a rātou
Me ngā whakaaro tonu ki ngā mate o te wā
Takoto mai, moe mai koutou, haere, haere, haere
Kāti rātou ki a rātou, tātou ki a tātou
Nō reira, he korowai rau whero o te whare Waiora o Waikato
Haere mai, Haere mai
Nau mai.

The green stone door to the world opens
The whariki of God is laid before us
All honour and glory be to God
May there be peace on Earth
And good will to all people
The keel of our waka turns to King Tuheitia
And the house hold of the Kahui Ariki
May God care and bless them
Our thoughts turn to those who have passed on recently
Rest in peace sleep in peace depart journey on
Let the dead be separated from us the living
Therefore to our distinguished guests gathered here
Welcome, welcome,
Welcome.

Te Puna Oranga's purpose is to drive and deliver radical improvement in Māori health outcomes by eliminating health inequities for Māori. 

Service profile

Te Puna Oranga (Māori Health Service) is made up of two teams, Puna-Strategic and Oranga- Frontline and Projects teams.

The Puna Team drives radical improvement in Māori health outcomes by:

  • Project and Programme Board representation,
  • Business Cases,
  • Data Analysis,
  • Māori equity assessment across a variety of platforms,
  • Policy development, and
  • System plans

The Oranga Team delivers radical improvement in Māori health outcomes by focusing on the following services:

  • Kaitiaki cultural support
  • Kaitakawaenga cultural support for mental health services
  • Tuapeka Kore (Tobacco Free)
  • Whare Ora Health Homes Programme
  • Hapū Wānanga: A kaupapa Māori antenatal education class
  • Harti Hauora
  • Puna Waiora
  • Kia Ora Hauora

Kaitiaki Frontline Service offers cultural support for Māori and their whānau, who are accessing health and disability services in Waiora Waikato, Tokoroa, Te Kuiti, Thames and Taumaranui hospitals.

Patients and their whānau can be put in touch with Kaitiaki by asking ward staff to refer them, or by phoning the Kaitiaki team leader.

What is the role of Kaitiaki?

  • To offer assistance, regarding Māori beliefs, values and cultural practices
  • To offer assistance, regarding Tupapaku, Māori values and cultural practices and whanau hui
  • To offer support for Māori patients during their admission in hospital
  • To help the patient and whānau understand the type of care provided by health clinicians
  • To link patients to other hospital services that can help them while they are in hospital
  • To link patient and whānau to external support services.

John Kopa
Team Leader

Phone 021 806 171

For Waiora Waikato Hospital Campus

  • Tumanako Haumaha
  • Dale Marriott
  • Hori Solomon
  • Tau Smith - Renal dialysis
  • Sharlene Henry - After hours
  • Hineiri Rangitutia - Breast screening
  • Maata McManus - Oral Health

For Tokoroa Hospital

  • Hemi Curtis

For Thames Hospital

  • Susan King 

For Taumarunui Hospital and Te Kuiti Hospital

  • Rangiarahina Onehi

Patients and their whānau can be put in touch with the Kaitakawaenga team by asking ward staff to refer them, or by ringing the team leader.

What is the role of Kaitakawaenga?

  • To provide cultural support to tangata whaiora and their whānau on admission to the Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre and within Waikato DHB’s Mental Health and Addiction Services.
  • As part of multidisciplinary teams, to help tangata whaiora and their whānau through their journey of care at Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre.
  • To identify and address ways to improve service delivery to Māori.

Millie Berryman
Team Leader

Phone 021 341 209

For Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre (acute adult wards and Puawai) and CAHT (Crisis and Home Treatment Team)

  • Tapi Rippey
  • Hone Thompson
  • George Smiler
  • Te Aroha Ngapo
  • Zane Hohua
  • Awarua Karena

Whare Ora is our Healthy Homes programme operating in the Waikato DHB district. The objective of the programme is to create safe, healthy, warm homes for children and families.

The team partner with public health nurses and Māori providers to do healthy home assessments with whānau. The whānau then work with Whare Ora to confirm actions plans and way forward.

To find out more and check if you are eligible, click here. 

Erana Severne
Team Leader and Senior Programme Manager

Phone 027 345 8808

  • Brogan Lomaz
  • Gabrielle Swift
  • Ihaka Stanley
  • Vicki Phelwasher

The purpose of Puna Waiora is to pipeline rangatahi Māori into the health workforce. The programme targets rangatahi Māori either attending a wharekura / secondary school within the Waikato DHB catchment; or enrolled in a health related programme with a tertiary provider.

Erana Severne
Team Leader and Senior Programme Manager

Phone 027 345 8808

  • Tamati Pene
  • Erana Tamati
  • Sherylee Matenga
  • Raukura Mary Newton
  • Hapū Wānanga, a free kaupapa Māori labour, birth and parenting programme.
  • Tuapeka Kore (Tobacco Free), a progression from Auahi Kore (Smokefree), and a programme that brings tikanga to the forefront in the war against tobacco use and smoking within Māori whānau.
  • Safe Sleep training and distribution to providers throughout the Waikato Region

Nikki Barrett
Team Leader and Senior Project Manager

Phone 021 815 861

  • Kelly Spriggs
  • Rawinia Hohua
  • Sarah Greenwood

This is a Health Research Council funded research project led by Dr Nina Scott, Clinical Director Māori Public Health, and investigators Dr Polly Atatoa-Carr and Dr Bridgette Masters-Awatere from the University of Waikato.

  • The study aims to assess the effectiveness of the Harti Hauora Tamariki tool at reducing hospital readmission rates and improving outcomes for tamariki in the WDHB.
  • The purpose of the tool is to improve the health and wellbeing of tamariki and their whānau by identifying health, wellbeing and social needs for tamariki and whānau and address unmet needs.
  • This project was funded for 3 years and will be completed October 2020.

Research team

Dr Amy Jones
Project Manager

Phone 021 343 9715

Research assistants

  • Pera Paekau
  • Tina Baty
  • Helen Foy

For more information email: HartiHauora@waikatodhb.health.nz

The Waikato District Health Board is pleased to announce we are accepting applications for the 2019 Health Workforce New Zealand Hauora Māori Training Fund/grant. This training fund was created to remove barriers for working kaimahi within the health or disability sector, who are looking to study in 2017 toward a Level 2-7 (excluding degrees) NZQA accredited training programme, course or qualification. It is open to the entire Māori non-regulated health and disability workforce within the Waikato DHB district.

Criteria

If you are:

  • Māori
  • a NZ citizen (or hold a NZ residency permit)
  • Employed by the Waikato DHB or a service that is funded by the Waikato DHB or Ministry of Health? (Including, but not limited to, Māori providers, primary healthcare, aged care (community, all levels of residential care facilities), rural healthcare etc.)
  • part of the non-regulated health workforce
  • a kaimahi that works over 10 hours a week
  • studying in 2018/2019

And, if your qualification:

  • falls within the health and disability sector
  • Is a certificate, diploma or graduate certificate level qualification? (Level 2-7 excluding degrees)
  • Is NZQA or ITO accredited

then we encourage you to apply. Please feel free to print the attached criteria [PDF, 132 KB] to distribute to your networks

How to apply?

  1. Download the attached PDF [PDF, 234 KB]
  2. Complete the application form
  3. Return via email to TPOtraining@waikatodhb.health.nz
  4. Contact Te Puna Oranga (Māori Health Service) on 07 839 8899 if you have any further queries
  5. Applications close 28th February 2019

Key personnel

Loraine Elliott 
Executive Director of Māori Health

Dominque Harema 
Personal Assistant Executive Director of Māori Health

Matua Hemi Curtis
Pou Herenga

Ikimoke Tamaki-Takarei 
Cultural Advisor

Location

Hockin Building, Waiora Waikato Hospital Campus, Pembroke Street, Hamilton

Contact

Phone: 07 839 8899 ext 97528