Waipuna Hospice has grown to become one of New Zealand's leading Hospices in the Western Bay of Plenty and across the Midland Region for providing high quality Specialist Palliative care. We will provide specialist care for people in the Western Bay of Plenty; along with our building, our nurses making home visits and phone calls to patients and families. Our support services have also grown to included counselling, social work, biography services, health professional and carer education, bereavement counselling, therapeutic and lymphedemia massage, a day programme, Day services, (including outpatient services), Chaplaincy, Occupational Therapy and Kai Whakamaru. The work we do is possible thanks to over 800 volunteers. Our six Hospice shops along with events, grants, bequests and donations help raise the necessary funds, to help grow our important services and provide them at no cost to the people in our community and their families.