About Aranui

Aranui Home and Hospital is centrally located in Woodward Road, a pleasant Mt Albert street, only moments from Mt Albert Rd and the local shopping centre.

Benefactress Henrietta Hughes donated her six-roomed house to the Baptist Union in 1952 as a home for elderly gentlewomen. The word 'Aranui' means a broad or comfortable path and Mrs Hughes hoped that the women living there could tread an easy path in their later years.

Since then, the home has expanded greatly. It now covers five adjoining properties all under one roof and has become both a rest home and a hospital. Its quiet, park-like grounds are a popular place to relax for residents, staff and visitors.

Now privately-owned, Aranui Home and Hospital offers stage 2 resident care for 27 people in its rest home and long-term medical care for 29 residents in its hospital. It also has a young person's service for people under 65 and day stay for those who live elsewhere.

Aranui is well-regarded by its residents and their families for, among other things, the quality of its care, its spaciousness, its high staff-to-resident ratio and the importance placed on residents remaining part of their local community. The latter is achieved through a comprehensive activity programme.

Aranui boasts four well-appointed residents' lounges, a whanau room, a sunny conservatory, wheelchair ramps, a private outdoor courtyard and a chatterbox cockatiel called Elvis. Each bedroom has a washbasin, wardrobe and bed and residents are encouraged to furnish their room to their own taste.

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