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Contact
21 Browning Street
PO Box 829
NAPIER

Phone:    06 833 6653
Fax:        06 833 5449
Email:    aane@maoridevelopment.org.nz
Web:      www.maoridevelopment.org.nz

About Us

Ngati Kahungunu/ Rongomaiwahine Iwi and the Health Funding Agency inititally established TRHHI in 1997, as an emerging Integrated Care Organisation (ICO).

Its purpose was to:

"Work in co-operation with and coordinate a network of alliances nationally and regionally to purchase and provide local and public and personal health and disability support services to Maori"

In November 1999, TRHHI established as a Maori Development Organisation (MDO) in the Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa regions, to assist and support Maori health providers within its membership, to enable provision of comprehensive health services to Maori.  There are currently ten providers within the membership of TRHHI.

The Organisation is funded by Ministry of Health and Hawkes Bay District Health Board to improve the health status of Maori by providing effective services for Maori Mental Health, Public Health, Primary and Secondary Healthcare and Disability Support Services.

It aims to:

"Provide leading health care services to the Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa Maori population"

Philosophy

To work within a Tiriti O Waitangi framework and its principles of participation, partnership and protection (active)

To be guided by Maori principles/tikanga:

  • Wairua

  • Aroha

  • Turangawaewae

  • Whanaungatanga

  • Tapu/Noa

  • Mana

  • Manaaki

  • Kawa

To support kaupapa Maori services

Strategic Intent

‘To improve the health status of Maori within an acceptable quality and developmental framework based upon the Organisation’s philosophy and the following principles’

  • Facilitation of Improved Access & Utilisation

  • Improvements in Choice and coverage

  • Targeted delivery of high quality innovative services

  • Co-operation, Participation & Partnership with other Providers’

  • Co-ordination and Integration

  • Robust Management

  • Maori Provider Development

  • Maori enrolment

Vision

‘To achieve whanau wellness’

Mission Statement

Te Roopu Huihuinga Hauora will work to improve the funding and delivery of services to Maori, with responsibilities for achieving specified Maori health gain priorities, coordinating service delivery, and working with both Maori and mainstream providers to build their capacity to deliver comprehensive and responsive services to Maori. The services will be:

  • Community based

  • Consumer and whanau focused

  • Affordable

  • Appropriate

  • Quality driven

  • Relevant and timely

  • Coordinated and integrated

  • Provide positive and demonstrable outcomes

Key Strategic Goals

  1. To promote assist and support Maori enrolment

  2. To continue to provide and build capacity of contract management services to its members

  3. To promote and support the recognition and adequate resourcing of Maori Rongoa

  4. To increase the Maori Health Workforce in Hawkes Bay, Wairoa

  5. To examine the feasibility of establishing as a Primary Health Organisation

  6. To promote and maintain effective partnerships with all key stakeholders that provide services to Maori

  7. To build Maori Primary Health service capacity

  8. To advocate and build the capacity of whanau development in the health sector

  9. To develop a Maori Development Organisation of Excellence

To develop and implement a Public Relations and Marketing Strategy

Staff

Directors
Syd Jackson (Ngäti Kahungunu, Ngäti Porou)
Bob Henare (Ngäti Kahungunu)
Kim Workman (Ngäti Kahungunu)
Marjorie Rangi (Ngati Pahauwera)
Brenda Hutana-White (Ngai Te Whatuiapiti)

Chief Executive Officer
Joe Puketapu (Te Ati Awa, Ngäti Puketapu)
joe@maoridevelopment.org.nz

Business & Finance Manger
Bayden Barber (Ngäti Kurukuru, Ngäti Kahungunu)
bayden@maoridevelopment.org.nz

Clinical Manager
Angeline Tangiora (Ngäti Kahungunu)
angeline@maoridevelopment.org.nz

Office Manager
Aane Beaton (Rongowhakaata, Ngäti Kahungunu)
aane@maoridevelopment.org.nz


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