Community Services - Adult

Public Service

Adult Community Services at ADHB are provided by the Community and Long Term Conditions Directorate. The directorate’s key goals and principles are:

Our Purpose: “Provide quality, patient centred, self-directed care as close to home as possible”

Our Goals:

• Develop new models of care and services, focussed on integration with primary care and other community health providers
• Develop and provide responsive services to prevent hospital admission, and support safe and early discharge from hospital
• Building community resilience and capacity to enable excellent, high quality care with all our partners
• Provide holistic and equitable rehabilitation across the continuum of care, maximising independence within our population
• Enhanced workforce engagement, succession planning and supporting staff to enable whole system navigation of care for our community

Our Principles: “Working in partnership, across the sector and with our population, enabling self-management, promoting independence”

 

Services Provided include:

• District (Community) Nursing
• Specialist Nursing including specialist gerontology, continence, ostomy and lymphedema nurses
• Needs Assessment and Service Coordination (NASC)
• Allied Health including Community Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Social Work, Physiotherapy and Dietetics
• Community Rehabilitation Service (CoRe)
• Home Based Support Services
• Rapid Community Access Team (R-CAT)

Locality Teams
Five locality based teams have been established. These are based on the Auckland City Council local boards. Each multidisciplinary locality team provides a range of integrated healthcare and social services in the home. At present all the community teams operate out of the existing base at the Greenlane Clinical Centre.

• Orakei / Rangitoto ( Waitemata, Great Barrier and Waiheke local board)
• Owairaka ( Albert-Eden local board)
• Whau ( Puketapapa and Whau local boards )
• Maungarei ( Maungakiekie-Tamaki local board)
• Intermediate Care

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