Piritahi Hau Ora offers a wide range of health & wellbeing services, 5 days per week.

About Us

In 1996, Piritahi Hau Ora began as a small clinic working out of Piritahi Marae in Blackpool, Waiheke. The service was developed to deliver a kaupapa Maori model service to meet the needs of a rural remote population. Its vision and aim is to provide affordable quality health care with wrap-around social support services, in a holistic approach to supporting the community of Waiheke Island. All of our services are provided based on the Maori model of Health and Wellbeing, or Te Whare Tapa Wha.

Today, Piritahi Hau Ora has grown and expanded.  It is now located across from Piritahi Marae in a dedicated building and operating out of two sites. Along with the Piritahi Childcare Centre, the service now includes seven consultation rooms providing a wide range of medical as well as supporting social services and a conference room for meetings, group sessions and training.

Open week days Monday to Friday, our service aims to provide a culturally and whanau friendly, supportive environment that nurtures and encourages our core values of:

Quality of Care

Through these core values, our team is dedicated to providing you and your family/whanau professional, appropriate and respectful quality of care through our education, health promotion, prevention and treatment services.

Piritahi Hau Ora holds multiple contracts with DHB, NDSA, MSD & Tamariki Oranga. Piritahi Hau Ora shares a management and governance team with its other organisation Waiheke Medical Centre under the umbrella of Piritahi Hau Ora Trust.

Piritahi Hau Ora also holds quality accreditation in NZ Health & Disability standards, Mental Health standards, Alcohol & Other Drug treatment standards and Ministry of Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki approval.

Accreditation

Piritahi Hau Ora is regularly audited to ensure we maintain the highest standards, we are committed to continual professional development of our staff and services. We are very proud to say we are a Cornerstone Accredited Centre since 2004, as well as a BSI Audit Accredited Centre for the past 12 years. Health and Disability Services Sector Standards – NZS 8134:2008 certified by BSI under certificate number OH004Q.

Aiming for Excellence is the quality standard for General Practice clinics in New Zealand. CORNERSTONE is the assessment programme that assesses clinics using the Aiming for Excellence standard.

The programme is coordinated and assessed by the Practice Assessment Team at the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.

BSI Group has taken over from Q-Audit as our Health and Disability Services Sector Standards Auditor. As a global leader in helping organisations improve performance, reduce risk and achieve sustainable growth. BSI Group have established a reputation for comprehensive auditing and quality certification of services in medical, health, disability support and other human services.

We are a member of the Auckland PHO which enables us to offer subsidised visits to our enrolled patients.

We are also VLCA, or Very Low Cost Access funded, which enables us to provide low cost services.

If you have any questions about us, or would like to know more, please get in contact.