Ward 11 of the mental health facility is set to close by the middle of the year . A petition to stop the closure has been launched amid doubt proposed community-based care would be a safe alternative . The family had been assured in November Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand (HNZ) would develop a plan, but after repeated efforts to find out what would happen next, she feared no plan had yet been made . There was no detail about how it would be carried out, such as where patients would live .