Southern Cross Hospital – Brightside

Details

Name :

Southern Cross Hospital – Brightside

Address  :

3 Brightside Road
Epsom

Town  :

Auckland

State  :

Auckland

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

1023

Phone  :

09 925 4200

Fax  :

09 925 4201

Web URL  :


Description

Brightside hospital was originally established on its Auckland site in Epsom in the 1940s The hospital is very well known in the region and was completely rebuilt to modern high tech specifications and officially reopened in 2000 Brightside is a fourtheatre hospital providing 43 inpatient beds and 6 day stay chairs and has a staff of nearly 100

Brightside Hospital offers a wide range of surgical services and postoperative care to around 4500 patients each year and is widely known for its leading gynaecological orthopaedic and urological services

Brightside was the first private hospital in New Zealand to offer brachytherapy a new type of treatment for prostate cancer and has led the way in urological treatment in New Zealand in some respects Plastic surgery oral surgery and general surgery is also undertaken at Brightside
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