Spinal Injury Transitional Home Photo: Supplied by Laura Fergusson Trust
More than five years after Auckland's Laura Ferguson Trust closed its Greenlane rehabilitation centre, a new purpose-built centre has opened for those recovering from spinal injuries.
In 2024, 264 people acquired a spinal cord injury in New Zealand.
The Trust had provided rehabilitation therapies for disabled people since the 1970s.
And when it closed its facility in 2020, citing its precarious financial position after years of deficits, it was a blow to those reliant on the services, and their families.
Since then the Trust has had a complete overhaul of its leadership - and as well as re-opening the new rehab centre - now has an ambitious plan to also build over 160 permanent and transitional homes for physically disabled Aucklanders.
Ray Finch is Trust chief executive.
