Greenlane Clinical Centre

Greenlane Clinical Centre is a public hospital in Greenlane, Auckland, located on Green Lane West, near Cornwall Park. The hospital is administered by the Northern division of Te Whatu Ora providing outpatient and day surgery services to the Auckland Region. The healthcare facilities at Greenlane have seen many notable developments in New Zealand's healthcare.

Greenlane Clinical Centre
Te Whatu Ora
Aerial view of Greenlane Clinical Centre
Geography
Location	Greenlane, Auckland, New Zealand
Coordinates	36.893429°S 174.780280°E / -36.893429; 174.780280
Organisation
Funding	Public hospital
Type	General
Affiliated university	University of Auckland
Services
Emergency department	No
Public transit access	bus routes 321, 650
History
Former name(s)	Costley Home for the Aged Poor, National Women's Hospital, Green Lane Hospital
Opened	1890
Links
Website	www.adhb.health.nz
Lists	Hospitals in New Zealand

History

Preceding institutions

Main article: Green Lane Hospital, Auckland

Costley Home for the Aged Poor, 1918

Greenlane Clinical Centre, building 5, the Infirmary Ward for the Incurables, built 1907

The centre was founded as the Costley Home for the Aged Poor in 1890, built with funds bequeathed by Edward Costley. Run by the Auckland Charitable Aid Trust, it had an occupancy of about 175 patients.^[1] An Infirmary Ward for the Incurables, now known as building 5, was opened by Minister for Health George Fowlds in 1907.^[2] The site was renamed Auckland Infirmary in 1924.^[3] In 2007 Auckland District Health Board applied for resource consent to demolish building 5, making way for more parking and a new building. Heritage groups opposed the proposal, with the Environment Court finding in their favour. Building 5 was granted category one status by Heritage New Zealand in 2010.^[4][5][3]

Greenlane Hospital, 1946

In 1942 the site became a general hospital with the completion of a Main Building in 1943.^[6][3][7] Greenlane became internationally renowned for heart surgery under Sir Douglas Robb and Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, seeing the first open heart operation in the country in 1958, and the second heart valve replacement in the world in 1962.^[6][8]

Greenlane Clinical Centre

All inpatient services were moved to the Auckland City Hospital in 2003 and Green Lane Hospital became the Greenlane Clinical Centre treating outpatients and day surgery cases.^[9][10]

Facilities

In May 2023, the services provided by Te Whatu Ora at Green Lane Clinical Centre were focused on community, ambulatory & mental health services. These services included:

• rheumatology
• pain services
• sexual health
• diabetes management
• dermatology
• oral health
• immunology
• audiology
• allied health
• mental health^[11]

References

1. "The Costley Home For The Aged Poor". The Cyclopedia Company Ltd. 1902. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
2. "First, Do No Harm; The Life and Death and Reinvention of Auckland's Former Infirmary". www.auckland.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
3. "Greenlane Hospital". Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
4. "Civic Trust board member says Greenlane heritage building in disrepair". www.stuff.co.nz. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
5. "Historic Places Recognises Greenlane Hospital". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
6. "Historic Places Recognises Greenlane Hospital". www.scoop.co.nz. 15 July 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
7. Hutchinson, BR (1990). Green Lane Hospital The First Hundred Years. Greenlane Hospital Centennial Committee Printed by Albion Press Ltd. OCLC 154625094.
8. "Taking the pulse of Auckland's medical history". NZHerald. 19 August 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
9. Dow, Derek A. (2005). Auckland's hospitals: a pictorial history 1847-2004. [Auckland, N.Z.]: Auckland District Health Board. p. 33. ISBN 0476014107. OCLC 156777585.
10. "New Auckland facilities provide better access for patients". The Beehive. 4 October 2003. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
11. "Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland". healthpoint.co.nz. Retrieved 5 June 2023.

External links

• Greenlane Clinical Centre – Te Whatu Ora Auckland website
• Auckland Medical History Society – member publications