It is administered by Te Whatu Ora and provides health services to residents in the North Shore, Waitakere and Rodney districts of Auckland.

[2] In 1945 the original Waitakere Maternity Hospital was a small building in Te Atatū.

While this proposed measure did not go forward as of mid-2007, it highlighted the fact that even after the NZ$60 million upgrading to general hospital status, the facility was still facing shortages, like many other public health facilities in New Zealand.

[4] In the first five months of 2008, the emergency department of the hospital was forced into partial closure 52 times, and has still not officially become a 24/7 facility.

This is being blamed on short-staffing and financial constraints of the Waitematā District Health Board.