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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.

 

The establishment of a Māori, Equity and Health Improvement directorate in late 2020 / early 2021 reflects Waikato DHB’s desire to drive improvements in equity and health outcomes, especially for our Māori and Pacific communities.

The directorate includes

  • Public Health (Public health advisory and development (PHAD), health promotion and health protection teams, and four Medical Officers of Health)
  • Māori Health Services / Te Puna Oranga - including kaitiaki and kaitakawaenga, and the Whare Ora and Hapū Wānanga programmes
  • Māori Health Innovation, Strategy, and Research – including the Harti Hauora project and the development of Māori and public health research capability
  • Māori Workforce Development – including the PunaWaiora programme
  • Suicide Prevention and Postvention, including a specific role for Māori suicide postvention, recognising the relationship to public health and the high rate of suicide among Māori
  • A new director of Pacific Health, recognising that Waikato has the second highest Pacific population in AotearoaNew Zealand
  • A role that leads tikanga best practice and improvedtikanga capability across Waikato DHB services and staff, working closely with Kaumātua Kaunihera, the group of elders who guide and advise Waikato DHB on matters of tikanga.The role will also strengthen our engagement with Iwi/Māori and the Kīngitanga.


Programmes and research delivered by the Maori Health, Equity and Health Improvement directorate include:

• 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 research study
• Puna Waiora
• Kia Ora Hauora

 

Public Health - https://www.waikatodhb.health.nz/your-health/public-health-services-and-alerts/

Suicide Prevention - https://www.waikatodhb.health.nz/your-health/wellbeing-in-the-waikato/suicide-prevention/ and

Key personnel

Riki Nia Nia
Executive Director Māori, Equity and Health Improvement

Hemi Curtis
Pou Herenga

Location

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

Contact

Phone: 07 839 8899 

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

When Māori turoro/patients and their whānau need Kaitiaki intervention/support ask your ward staff to make a referral to Kaitiaki.

What is the role of Kaitiaki?

  • To offer hauora advice and understanding about your clinical cares, treatment and discharge pathway whilst being a patient keeping your Māori beliefs, values and cultural practices intact.
  • To offer guidance and advice regarding your loved one being Tupapaku/ deceased, understanding Coroners process but still maintaining Māori beliefs, values and cultural practices.
  • To offer korero a Kanohi ki te kanohi and recommendations for Māori patients during their admission in hospital.
  • To connect patients to other hospital services that can help them while they are in hospital
  • To connect patient and whānau to external support services.

John Kopa
Pou Whakahaere

Phone 021 806 171

Waiora Waikato Hospital ward Kaitiaki

  • Dale Marriott -  Floater
  • Tumanako Haumaha
  • Sharlene Henry
  • Mark Waitai
  • Helen Maxwell-Blake

Breast screening

  • Hineiri Rangitutia

Oral Health

  • Maata McManus

Children Development Centre

  • Tina Baty

 Thames Hospital

  • Susan King

Taumarunui, Te Kuiti Hospital and Tokoroa Hospital

  • Cover being provided by Dale Marriott until a permanent appointment has been filled

Complaints

If you have a complaint, stop, think, ask for complaint form, fill in, and be brief to the point, time, and detail how many persons involved, date, and your contact detail. Put in envelope provided and hand to staff or Kaitiaki.

Thank you your complaint helps us be better connected and better providers.

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
  • 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. 

Vicki Phelwasher
Project Manager Whare Ora Healthy Homes

Phone 021 329 084

  • Haylee Simon
  • Michelle Paekau
  • Ezra Dixon
  • Gabrielle Swift
  • Vicki Phelwasher
  • Saffron Paekau
  • Lynda Thompson

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.

Tamati Peni
Kaiwhakahaere – Team Leader

Phone 027 224 2256

  • Erana Tamati
  • Mahara Hepi
  • Raukura Mary Newton
  • Te Okahurangi Ngahana-Hartley
  • Tiana Finai-Matatahi
  • Wikiwira Pohika
  • 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

Mareka Hicks
Admin and Facilitation for Hapū Wānanga

Tamara Karu
Hapu Wananga Facilitator


Phone 021 25 22 779

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

  • Currently recruiting

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 2020/2021

 

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 027 456 4563 if you have any further queries
  5. Applications close 28th February 2021