Maori health provider Te Oranganui Iwi Health Authority is moving by gradual stages to Wanganui's former polytechnic campus in Campbell St.
The organisation has five segments scattered through the city - a medical clinic and services for mental health, disability, families, health education and drug and alcohol support.
It has 140 staff now, and that number is set to grow.
This week, the Te Waipuna medical clinic moves to Guyton St and the Te Taurapa administration and support arm leaves its Drews Ave building for Campbell St.
In four years, all Te Oranganui's services should be established at the former polytechnic site, now leased by Tupoho Whanau Trust and renamed the Tupoho Community Complex.
Te Oranganui chief executive Jennifer Tamehana said having all the services together had been a goal for some time.
Frontline staff will share computers in one large room, and there will be one staffroom for all, a central filing system and kitchen.
At the same time there are other changes afoot for Te Oranganui. Instead of being a primary health organisation on its own, it has joined other Maori PHOs in a new national Maori PHO, the third-largest in the country.
It is also changing from the standard client-led way of working to the Whanau Ora way, which is whanau-driven.
Meanwhile, painters have been busy at the Tupoho complex for weeks, preparing the large H block for Te Oranganui's frontline Family Start/Te Puawai Whanau and Health Education/Te Korimako workers to move in.
F Block, the polytechnic's former administration area, is being prepared for Te Oranganui's administration and support services team to move in.
The doctors from the Te Waipuna clinic will move to 37 Guyton St, with offshoot clinics in Castlecliff, Waverley and Ohakune staying put.
Next year, Te Oranganui's mental health, disability and drug and alcohol services move to the Tupoho complex, and the following year, it will be the turn of the doctors - with A Block converted into a medical centre if funding can be found.
The moves are being overseen by project manager Teri Teki.
Whanganui UCOL fine arts classes are to move to other parts of the complex during the summer break, while their Taupo Quay buildings get an earthquake upgrade.
"Ken Mair has spent three-plus years trying to negotiate a lease for these buildings and within weeks of securing it, UCOL says it wants some space there," Mrs Tamehana said.
Whanganui's iwi radio station, Awa FM, is also on the move. Miss Teki said it was to occupy the former polytechnic library building.
Whanau Ora
Since Te Oranganui became a lead agent in the Government's Whanau Ora initiative, it had trained more than 50 workers and helped more than 100 families, chief executive Jennifer Tamehana said.
The training started two and a half years ago, tribes in the wider Whanganui region had taken advantage of it and it was getting national recognition.
Trainees will graduate at Whangaehu Marae on November 4, and whanau they have helped will tell their stories then.
Mrs Tamehana said the role of lead agent went a lot further than training - it could affect policy. One aspect she wanted to tackle was the way children from Maori language schools were treated as remedial learners rather than second-language speakers when they moved to English-language schools.
She hoped the Whanau Ora way of working would spread much wider than her own organisation and affect other agencies, such as the Department of Social Welfare and the Ministry of Justice.
The training would turn staff into agents for transformation - moving families/whanau from conflict and trauma to healing.
"They have to develop trust and rapport with families and give them some insight into their place in society and the reasons why they might be like they are and to help them gain some level of confidence."