Wellington Hospitals Foundation

Wellington Hospitals Foundation Wellington Hospitals Foundation is the official charity for the hospitals served by HealthNZ Te Whatu Ora - Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley.

Community support enables us to provide equipment and resources that help people receive better healthcare. Wellington Hospitals Foundation is the official charity for the hospitals served by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora I Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley. This includes Wellington Regional Hospital, Kenepuru and Hutt Hospitals, Te Wao Nui Child Health Service, Kapiti Health Centre and the Mental Health, Addictions and Intellectual Disability Service. Community support enables the Foundation to assist our hospitals to keep pace with the latest technology and treatments, and to provide resources, care and comfort items that help thousands of people in the Greater Wellington Region receive better healthcare. Foundation volunteers are also an integral part of healthcare in the Greater Wellington Region and our hospitals rely on their assistance. We proudly manage over 450 volunteers across a range of areas.

September is Wills Month. After remembering loved ones in their wills, many people want to leave something to help make...
08/09/2025

September is Wills Month. After remembering loved ones in their wills, many people want to leave something to help make a difference. A gift in your will is more than a donation, it’s a legacy - one that will live on in the care provided to future patients and their whānau, long after we’re gone. Whether it helps to fund equipment, family centred spaces or compassionate patient care; your support will continue to make a difference where it’s needed most. Thank you for considering this extraordinary way to care for your community. All enquiries are confidential and without obligation.

😍🐾 Sometimes the best medicine has four paws!We love this sweet snap of Isla, her mum Paula and the adorable Juno, taken...
04/09/2025

😍🐾 Sometimes the best medicine has four paws!

We love this sweet snap of Isla, her mum Paula and the adorable Juno, taken during a recent visit to Te Wao Nui Children’s Hospital.

Research shows that pet therapy can ease anxiety, lower stress and even reduce pain for patients in hospital. Thanks to our amazing volunteers, therapy dogs like Juno are helping patients and their families feel more supported during their hospital stay. And it’s not just patients who benefit - Juno is always a huge hit with staff too!

We wish Isla all the very best for her care and recovery.

♻️ Turn your old phone into support for Child Health!A big thank you to Daniel and the team at Recycling For Charity, Ne...
04/09/2025

♻️ Turn your old phone into support for Child Health!

A big thank you to Daniel and the team at Recycling For Charity, New Zealand. They’ll help you safely and sustainably recycle your unwanted phones with proceeds going towards Child Health projects.

📍 Drop-off zones:
Wellington Regional Hospital (Main Reception)
Kenepuru Hospital (Main Entrance)
Hutt Hospital (Main Entrance)
Kapiti Health Centre
Noel Leeming Porirua
Or contact Recycling For Charity directly.

Together we can care for the planet and help care for our young patients.

📷 Tiaki - the new children’s hospital kaitiaki - dropping in their old phone!

😍 A huge thank you to all the wonderful knitters who’ve helped us get through winter!We’re still in need of more beautif...
02/09/2025

😍 A huge thank you to all the wonderful knitters who’ve helped us get through winter!

We’re still in need of more beautiful handmade newborn-sized baby cardigans made from 100% new wool to help keep precious pēpi warm and cosy. Wool is a natural fibre that helps babies regulate their temperature, something especially important for our tiniest patients.

We’d also love cardigan, bo**ie and beanie sets like the one pictured. Patterns can be found here: https://whf.org.nz/sewing-knitting-patterns/

If you can help, please send your finished knits to: Wellington Hospitals Foundation, PO Box 7902, Newtown, Wellington 6242.

Thank you for caring for our littlest patients.💛

Inpatient oncology wards care for people undergoing intensive cancer treatments. These patients often face long hospital...
09/08/2025

Inpatient oncology wards care for people undergoing intensive cancer treatments. These patients often face long hospital stays, physical discomfort, emotional distress and uncertainty about their future.

More and more we know it’s not just physical health that matters, but emotional and mental wellbeing are just as important. Creative art can help reduce stress, lift someone’s mood and give them back a sense of control, even when facing serious illness.

Thanks to your generosity, we’re pleased to help bring a new creative art programme ‘Canvass of Calm’ to patients receiving inpatient cancer care at Wellington Regional Hospital.

📷 Joyce Lam, Oncology Social Worker with some of the art supplies

Having a tiny, fragile baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit can be one of the most stressful and heart wrenching exp...
08/08/2025

Having a tiny, fragile baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit can be one of the most stressful and heart wrenching experiences a new parent will ever face. The need for specialist psychotherapy support is especially important when babies are critically unwell or when families are facing the unimaginable reality that their little one may not survive.

That’s why the work of NICU’s Parent and Infant Psychotherapist, Dr Lucie Zwimpfer, is so vital. Thanks to your generosity, the Foundation has helped create a dedicated Wellness Room, a quiet, calm space where parents can take a break and find the emotional and counselling support they so desperately need.

Staff also find the new space and support invaluable. Lucie shared the story of a nurse who, after a particularly upsetting moment caring for a wee baby, was heading to the bathroom for a quiet cry. Instead she saw Lucie was there, and in that moment received the compassionate support she needed.

📷 Shona Brunton WHF, Dr Lucie Zwimpfer, Rosemary Escott, Charge Nurse Manager NICU

A huge thank you to Beanies for Babies NZ 2019 for the beautiful box of knitted treasures we received this week! From co...
07/08/2025

A huge thank you to Beanies for Babies NZ 2019 for the beautiful box of knitted treasures we received this week!

From cosy cardigans and singlets to the sweetest little hats and bo**ies, your handiwork will help keep our tiniest patients warm and wrapped in love. We’re so grateful for your kindness and care.💛

📣 Calling all knitters! Our supplies of beautiful handmade baby cardigans are running low and we need your help! We’re l...
24/07/2025

📣 Calling all knitters!

Our supplies of beautiful handmade baby cardigans are running low and we need your help!

We’re looking for newborn-sized cardigans made from 100% new wool to help keep precious pēpi warm and cosy. Wool is a natural fibre that helps babies regulate their temperature, something which is especially important for our tiniest patients.

One of our favourite patterns can be found here:https://whf.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/V-Neck-Cardigan.pdf

If you can help, please send your finished knits to:
Wellington Hospitals Foundation, PO Box 7902, Newtown, Wellington 6242.

Thank you for caring for our littlest patients.💛

For the past five years, Wellington Hospitals Foundation has been proud to sponsor the Manawa Ora Hospital Orchestra and...
21/07/2025

For the past five years, Wellington Hospitals Foundation has been proud to sponsor the Manawa Ora Hospital Orchestra and Choir. Complementing the Foundation’s regular volunteer music programme, these talented hospital professionals help bring moments of calm and connection to patients, whānau as well as hospital colleagues.

Hospital staffer Jacob Barrett is also an award winning composer and current Choirs Aotearoa composer-in-residence. Jacob has been commissioned by SOUNZ to create a suite of nine lullabies - each one inspired by the Matariki stars and what they represent. With lyrical input by children from Newtown School who wrote poems in te reo Māori, these lullabies are a beautiful collaboration between the hospital and our local community.

📣Four of these lullabies will be performed Manawa Ora’s Winter Concert on Friday 25 July at 1.00pm in Wellington Regional Hospital’s Atrium.

Thanks to the generous support of our long term charity partner, Jack Jeffs Charitable Trust, children needing extra sup...
05/07/2025

Thanks to the generous support of our long term charity partner, Jack Jeffs Charitable Trust, children needing extra support in hospital and at home now have access to a range of new equipment that’s making a real difference to their care.

This includes therapy tools for the Child Development Service, equipment for our Play Specialists, and colourful, practical tube-feeding backpacks in a variety of sizes for tamariki receiving home enteral (tubed) nutrition.

Tube feeding is used when a child can’t eat enough by mouth due to illness, injury or disability. These specially designed backpacks make it easier for children on continuous feeds to move about freely, feel more confident and enjoy a bit more normality in their day. With fun designs they look like any regular backpack - but with features that make feeding on the go safer and simpler for families.

We’re incredibly grateful to the Jack Jeffs Charitable Trust for helping us support whānau navigating complex health journeys.

📷 Tube-feeding packs: Carly Fry, Clinical Dietician, Allied Health.
📷 Child Development equipment: Jo Mills, Paediatric Physiotherapist, Child Development Service & Diane Davis, Therapy Assistant, Child Development Service.

On her 41st birthday, Cushla received the gift of a second chance at life – a lifesaving liver transplant in Auckland. ...
04/07/2025

On her 41st birthday, Cushla received the gift of a second chance at life – a lifesaving liver transplant in Auckland. After a long and complicated recovery, she continued to receive expert care at Wellington Regional Hospital through the Gastroenterology, Oral Health and Dermatology teams.

Grateful for the compassionate care she received, Cushla was determined to give back. She became a dedicated hospital volunteer, warmly welcoming patients as a hospital guide, offering encouragement and support alongside the physiotherapist in the hydrotherapy pool at Kilbirnie, and later working with staff in the busy ICU.

To honour her life and legacy, Cushla’s husband Dean recently made a memorial gift to Wellington Hospitals Foundation. He told us that giving back to the hospital that had done so much for Cushla meant a great deal to her - it was her way of expressing thanks and helping others facing their own difficult journeys.

Trigger warning: This post shows sensitive medical imagery. Thanks to your generous support, patients across our region...
03/07/2025

Trigger warning: This post shows sensitive medical imagery.
Thanks to your generous support, patients across our region now have access to a full suite of advanced diagnostic breast imaging and biopsy options at Wellington Regional Hospital.

In late 2023, Wellington Hospitals Foundation funded the purchase of a state of the art 3D mammography machine, which has been transforming the diagnostic experience with clearer imaging, greater comfort and reduced stress for patients.

Thanks again to your support, additional equipment has been purchased to enable the hospital’s existing Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy (VAB) and Vacuum-Assisted Excision (VAE) system to work seamlessly with the new machine. These less invasive procedures are an important alternative to surgery for many patients, offering a safer, faster way to diagnose or remove certain breast lesions.

This upgrade helps restore equitable access to these services across the region, avoiding the need to outsource care or resort to surgery under general anaesthetic. It’s a significant step forward for local breast care.

Your generosity is helping deliver better care to patients every day. To help fund more life-changing equipment like this, please donate at https://whf.org.nz/donate/

📷 From left: Rebecca Stewart, Megan Sutherland & Lisa Cotton - Wellington Regional Hospital with Shona Brunton and Guy Ryan, Wellington Hospitals Foundation

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Level 2, Wellington Hospital, Riddiford Street, Newtown
Wellington
6242

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Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

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