Waikato Business News July/August 2019

4 WAIKATO BUSINESS NEWS PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT July 2019
Major development
for Tamahere Eventide
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Tamahere Eventide is making a major investment in the future,
building both a hospital and new resident apartments to add to its
extensive offering on SH1 just south of Hamilton.
The $12 million build
and fitout will see 16
apartments and 24 hospital-level
rooms, along with
reception area, dining room
and lounges.
Progress is good, says Chief
Executive Officer Louis Fick,
with the building on schedule
for completion in December
2019 and opening in January
2020
Tamahere Eventide already
offers residential care facilities
ranging from rest home
care to independent living,
with its practices seeking to
value its elderly clients and
their families.
There is a Café & Community
Centre on site which
includes a pool table, library
and bowling green.
“Residents also have access
to our gully that is developed
with walkways, ponds and
native trees,” says Fick.
“We are a Christian based
organisation providing service
to all of the community within
our mission of ‘To provide
a quality caring service for
older people, in a Christian
environment’.”
Fick says the hospital start
was delayed by the expressway
build nearby but there is safe,
well signed and defined access
to the site from Bollard Road.
It will provide for aged-care
hospital-level service provision,
with any person assessed
as requiring hospital level care
qualifying for admission.
“The rooms are built as
premium rooms with private
ensuite, telephone, TV, ceiling
track hoists and specialised
bedroom furniture.”
The hospital will see total
staff increase by about 35, with
cleaners, kitchen hands, diversional
therapists, caregivers,
registered nurses, and a physiotherapist.
Meanwhile, the majority
of apartments in stage 1 have
already been selected by interested
purchasers and only a
few are remaining.
Of the 16 apartments, 15
are on first floor level and one
on ground level. There are 15
one-bedroom apartments ranging
in size from 51 sq m to 54
sq m and one two-bedroom
apartment of 80 sq m.
Stage 2, to be completed
in October 2020, includes 18
apartments on ground level
with 14 one-bedroom (50 sq m
to 54sq m) and four two-bedroom
apartments (60 sq m to
70 sq m)
The purchaser of an apartment,
which is done through
an Occupation Rights Agreement,
receives 80 percent of
the capital gain.
“The apartments have a
well-designed modern kitchen
fitted with a fridge freezer,
dishwasher, cooktop and
Bosch oven,” Fick says.
“The laundry is fitted with
a tub and Bosch washer/dryer
with large storage cupboards.
A telephone system, call
bell system, TV connections,
central air conditioning and
residents lounge are just a few
of the items included.”
Village vans are available
for shopping trips and other
outings.
The hospital and apartments
were designed by James
White of Style Designs and
the builder is John MacEwan
Builders with subcontractors
from Hamilton.
For further information
or to contact the Tamahere
Eventide Home Trust, go to
tamahere.co.nz
You may have noticed some building work going on at our
site on State Highway 1 as you drive from Hillcrest on the
way to Cambridge. We are building a ground floor hospital
further expanding our aged care facility. The first stage will
contain 16 apartments that will be sold under occupation rights
agreements as part of our retirement village. (As defined under
the retirement villages act 2003)
We are also currently renovating a number of two bedroom villas
in the village that will be ready for occupation soon.
The facilities are owned and operated by Tamahere Eventide
Home Trust, a registered charitable entity, with Trustees
appointed by the Methodist Church.
Our mission statement: “To provide a quality caring service for
older people, in a Christian environment.”
Accredited member of the Retirement Villages Association of
New Zealand Inc.
Interested in coming in and seeing
what we have to offer?
Telephone David McGeorge on 07 8591581 or
021 0289 1213 for an appointment and viewing.
Telephone Sue Pollock on 07 8591583 for all
hospital care enquiries.
Easy access to the village is currently via Cherry Lane
whilst this building work is taking place.
www.tamahere.co.nz