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An empty Middlemore Hospital awaits its first patients. Staff Tour

Jonathon Gray shows the staff around the new facility. Olive Hollan and Nora Kelly in Ward 3

Olive Hollan, the matron and Nora Kelly, charge sister in Ward 3 are shown with three of their patients. Jack Delaney is on the left with his close friend Phil Munro and Major Stan Wright. Walking through Ko Awatea

The staff take a tour around the new facility. CMDHB

Emergency Department at Middlemore Hospital

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For the next 18 months DHBs from around New Zealand will be working together to: reduce the rate of CLAB in ICUs towards zero. Learn more!

Read Geraint Martin's Blog

04-April -2012 - Target CLAB Zero - A new video on the Maintenance Bundle has been added! Take a look!

03-April -2012 - Target CLAB Zero - Read the latest issue of our newsletter! Read now!

13-July-2011 - Videos and Presentations from the Grand Opening and Healthcare Colloquium: Innovation and Action are now available! Read more...

Ko Awatea (Dawning of the first light) is about improvement and transformation, so that we can provide the very best healthcare we can to our community. Ko Awatea provides us with the space where our staff can learn and grow, share knowledge, develop new skills and new thinking and turn this into practical solutions to help us improve quality, and reduce harm, waste and cost.

On this website you will find a growing pool of resources to draw on, and news of the many and varied activities, research, data and initiatives that are being generated from within Ko Awatea.

Learn more about our partnership with IHI

04-April-2012 - Find out all the news from IHI’s 13th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice & the Community held on March 18-20, 2012, in Washington, DC.

04-April -2012 - Catch up with what happened at the 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care - The Picture of Health (Care) - December 4-7, 2011 in Orlando, Florida.

03-April-2012 - What keeps me awake at night - The Big Issues Facing 21st Century Healthcare - Maureen Bisognano's presentation at the Healthcare Colloquium

01-April -2012 - The Improvement Map is a free interactive, web-based tool designed to bring together the best knowledge available on the key process improvements that lead to exceptional patient care. Visit the Improvement Map.

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