Child and youth health is unique and different. To acknowledge this Waikato District Health Board now has ‘Waikids’, a new name and a new look to unite all Waikato child and youth health services!
| The Child and Youth Health service is a dynamic forward-thinking department. Integration of care comes from the community to acute care with good working relationships between professionals who continue to provide a child-friendly service. Their service comprises secondary and tertiary paediatric medical and surgical inpatient services (48 beds), acute and elective, and newborn intensive care (level 3 - 36 cots), with the retrieval and transfer of sick neonates by air. They have a brand new Newborn Unit opened February 2009. They provide outpatient services for paediatric medicine and surgery (both secondary and tertiary) – region-wide (e.g. Tauranga, Thames etc). Paediatric surgery includes neonatal surgery and is the tertiary service for the Midland region. There is accreditation for paediatric surgical training. Waikids is a spectrum of services including Mothercraft, Child Development Centre, Children's Clinic, Mental Health services, Emergency Department, Child Protection Service, Oral Health, and inpatients. It involves all high quality services with specialist staff meeting the short term and chronic health and disability needs of children and their families. Who They are:
For more information in Waikids please phone The Waikato District Health Board on (07) 839-4679 or check out their website www.waikatohb.govt.nz |