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The rise of our hospice
The Hospice Wairarapa team. PHOTO/JADE CVETKOV
Emily Ireland It’s hard to imagine Wairarapa not having a local hospice. But the threat of this was very real last decade. The shock closure of Wairarapa’s Hospice, run by Te Omanga, came after a 2006 Wairarapa District Health Board review found there were “gaps and duplications” in the palliative services offered in the region. When the Wairarapa District Health
Board (DHB) took over responsibility for palliative care in 2008, Te Omanga Hospice’s specialist role was, and still is, provided from Hutt Valley. The closure and loss of the local hospice base drew an emotional response from the community. This is when Hospice Wairarapa rose up, officially opening its Renall St premises in 2010. It entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the DHB whereby hospice services were reintroduced to Wairarapa to supplement clinical
services under the DHB’s palliative care service Kahukura. Next week is Hospice Awareness week, and the Wairarapa Midweek is taking a look back at how Hospice Wairarapa rose from the ground to bring terminally ill people quality of life. This is the first in a 10-part Midweek series bringing awareness to the community about Hospice Wairarapa in an effort to increase support for the charity and the services offered.
Hospice philosophy
Suzie Adamson general manager of Hospice Wairarapa firmly believes that dying is a “social event”. Her involvement with hospice began 19 years ago when it was Te Omanga Hospice in Wairarapa. “My father died in Christchurch at 61 from cancer and because I lived here with my young family, I couldn’t get down Continued on page 4
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