The Canterbury District Health Board began moving patients into the redeveloped Burwood Hospital this week, with defence force personnel on hand to help shift frail, elderly patients across town from the Princess Margaret Hospital.
The $215 million redevelopment of sub-acute services at Burwood Hospital is part of the almost $1 billion worth of new hospital facilities being built in Canterbury. Construction of a $300m acute services building for Christchurch Hospital will begin this year for an expected opening date in 2018.
