A surgical hospital where patients stay for up to 48 hours will form part of the new $150 million Cambridge Health Hub on Laurent Road.
An artist’s impression showing the revised Health Hub hospital
The hospital replaces what was to be a single-storey Rehabilitation Hub which was to have a physiotherapist’s studio, indoor and outdoor gymnasium, hydrotherapy pool and smaller tenancies.
It will be a four-theatre hospital with a two-theatre day surgery function.
The site will still have a general practitioner and urgent care doctors’ surgery, pharmacy, radiology, blood collection, dentist, audiology, orthodontist and optometrist.
The developer, named in Waipā District Council papers as Medical Pacific Ltd, resubmitted a revised resource consent last year reflecting the change. The original one was granted in 2021.
Luk Chin
Companies Office records show Medical Pacific was removed from the registry in May 1992, but a company called The Health Hub Cambridge Ltd – registered in April 2020 with anaesthetist and trotting trainer and driver Luk Chin and P & J Hogan listed as shareholders – does appear on the registry.
The News interviewed Chin last year and he confirmed he was developing the facility with Justine Lady Hogan, widow of legendary horse breeder Sir Patrick Hogan.
The 81-year-old says he is determined to get the New Zealand health service back on track.
He will talk at a Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Business After 5 event at Shoof next month where he will give an overview on The Health Hub progress.
Dunedin-born Chin first came to the Waikato in 1966 when he trained as a house surgeon at Waikato Hospital. It was when he headed overseas in the late 1960s that he met his Australian wife to be Robyn. The two married in 1969 and went on to have two sons – David, chief executive at LIC and Andrew, strategy manager at Auckland City Council – and now five grandchildren.
Chin worked at Waikato Hospital for more than 40 years – becoming a leading intensivist and pain specialist – and while there helped develop the Anglesea Clinic in Hamilton.
He still trains a small team of trotters at his Bruntwood Road property and drives regularly at Cambridge Raceway and in Auckland.
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An artist’s impression showing the revised Health Hub hospital with Victoria Road in the background.
