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Registered Nurse Gloria Petrie always wanted to be a nurse since the age of four, when she broke her arm and spent three weeks in Waikato Hospital.

After 60 years of marriage, Barry and Karene Lawrence still remember to make time to have lunch together each day.

Judy Cooper makes a habit of regularly sitting in the library to read the newspaper or book in a comfy chair, as she looks out of the big windows across Bupa Parkstone Retirement Village in Ilam, Christchurch.

The past three years at Bupa Stokeswood Care Home in Stokes Valley has flown by for Registered Nurse Mere Rawalai and she says her days of intense nursing study seem like a distant memory.

It was a thumbs up for the delicious carrot cake and bite sized ginger slice, and a thumbs down for the crumbly Vietnamese spring rolls.

Bupa New Zealand has backed a local business by buying more than 4,000 fabric masks for all their staff across the country for their personal use outside of work time.

Just before the alert levels began, one of our care homes held a spectacular fashion show.

Please scroll down below to find the latest updates on all our care homes, retirement villages, dental and rehabilitation sites during the new alert levels. For any queries or comments please email covid-19@bupa.co.nz

Waimakariri Mayor Dan Gordon recently visited Bupa Ballarat Care Home resident Lorna Creamer on a very special day.

Caregiver Moeapulu Mapusua was one of the first employees at Bupa Parkhaven Care Home in Mangere East, having seen the construction underway and enquiring about a job before the doors even opened.

Exercise through the colder months at Bupa Ballarat Retirement Village in Rangiora has meant a routine of nine classes each week for residents to keep active.

Three weeks ago John Hutchings, resident at Bupa Wattle Downs Care Home, was just eight minutes away from passing after suddenly having low oxygen levels and the ambulance was immediately called.

With dog leads in one hand and plastic bags in the other, local Hamiltonian Daniel Cruickshank is the official Bupa St Andrews Retirement Village dog walker.

Helping the environment has meant just a small change to breakfast trays of residents at Bupa Accadia Manor Care Home in Edgecumbe Road, Tauranga.

When Bupa Liston Heights Care Home resident Nola Payne gets to see her family and the view of the Auckland Harbour from the screen of her laptop, her face lights up.

Residents from Bupa The Gardens Retirement Village welcomed children from Aorangi Primary School this week.

Joan Hodgins was a woman on a mission – to move into Bupa Fergusson Retirement Village in Upper Hutt.

It’s been a quiet few months around the Bupa Te Puke Country Lodge Retirement Village bowling table recently.

A weekly cycling exercise class at Bupa Tasman Care Home in Henderson has seen the improvement of mobility in residents.

Donna Inwood was ‘born into gumboots’ and has a deep love for both farming and caring.

A career in nursing runs in the family of Bupa Northhaven Care Home Clinical Manager, Addlight Kurewa.

Please find below the latest updates on COVID-19.

The sounds of stirring coffee cups at morning teas, hair dryers, bingo calls and splashing in the swimming pools. The Bupa retirement village facilities are back open and more popular than ever.

Everyone is familiar with the hammering and sawing noises coming from the Bupa Liston Heights Retirement Village workshop.

The Bupa Gladys Mary Care Home team in Napier celebrated late last week after they were given the all clear of Covid-19 from Public Health.

As the birthday cake for John Goddard was brought out to him while Bupa Tasman Care Home staff and residents sang Happy Birthday, his face lit up. Surprising considering John’s seen a fair few birthdays in his time, this one being his 105

As we celebrate International Nurses Day, Bupa Managing Director and Lead Nurse Carolyn Cooper is joined by Bupa Clinical Services Director and Deputy Lead Nurse to discuss the day, nursing professional development and wellbeing. …

After 17 years as an enrolled nurse at Eventhorpe Care Home in Hamilton, Stephanie Clarkin sees herself as “part of the furniture".

As Amy Rule continues to move closer to her dream of being named in the Black Ferns rugby team, she knows she has the support of her former workmates who happen to be a couple of ‘mums’ in her life too.

Bupa’s care home, retirement village, and rehabilitation teams continued to provide expert care during the recent Alert Level 4 across New Zealand.

Bupa announced today an hourly rate boost to all front-line Bupa NZ people by $2 per hour. This will be backdated to 23 March and will continue for the duration of the Government Alert Level 4 lockdown.

31 March - A statement from Carolyn Cooper - Managing Director Bupa Villages and Aged Care New Zealand.

27 March - A statement from Carolyn Cooper - Managing Director Bupa Villages and Aged Care New Zealand.

A statement from Carolyn Cooper - Managing Director Bupa Villages and Aged Care New Zealand.

Please find below the latest updates on COVID-19.

A karakia and blessing were performed on the new expansion of the Awhina dementia community at Bupa Redwood Care Home earlier this week with Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick in attendance.

Full year statement year ended 31 December 2019.

​Krista Marsh had a keen interest in nursing from an early age but knew nothing about aged care nursing. 

Once Bupa Cedar Manor Care Home Caregiver, Maribeth Perez began her Bachelor of Health Sciences Māori Nursing programme, she was surprised to find the similarities between Māori culture and her own Filipino culture.

As 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, Bupa is acknowledging nurses by sharing a number of stories and highlighting the professionalism shown by the aged care nursing workforce.