Volunteers Needed at Cartersville Medical Center

Volunteers Needed: Cartersville Medical Center
by Jan Wardell, Auxiliary Volunteer President

Volunteers are a wonderful group of people who love to help. Several departments are assisted by the Volunteer staff.

In the Out Patient Department, the Volunteers assist the nursing staff by tracking each patient and their family, through the process and then helping them from the department to their vehicles.

In the Mother Baby Department, the Volunteers work closely with the nursing staff to assist them with the comfort of the new mothers.

The Volunteers at the Front Desk, assist visitors coming into the hospital who need to locate family members who are patients. Volunteers also deliver flowers and mail to patients. Patients who are going home from the hospital are assisted by the Volunteers who bring them from their room, via a wheelchair, to their waiting family at the hospital entrance. The Front Desk Volunteers also deliver baby bows sent to new Moms by their doctors. It is a wonderful memento for the family.

Volunteers also assist the nurses in the Emergency Room, at the receiving desk.

The hospital also has a Gift Shop, where the Volunteers sell a wide variety of gifts which visitors can purchase. Flowers, assorted gifts, balloons, baby items, purses, jewelry and other things always seem to bring a smile to the face of the patients.

Can You Come Help Us?
We need more volunteers so we can continue our work assisting patients who are also our friends and family.

Requirements
Our requirements are that you work 4 hours a week and 100 hours a year. Each working shift is for 4 hours, either 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. You are eligible for a meal in the cafeteria before or after your shift. We do ask that you make a commitment for at least a year. Favorable background check, cheerful and courteous disposition and confidentiality are essential. Volunteers must be 18 or older.

Please apply at the Cartersville Medical Center Human Resources Department. Visit or Call 770-387-8172.

Helping Hands
Last year our Volunteers worked Monday through Friday 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. along with some Saturdays and Sundays because it is important to us to help our patients.

Friends and Family
It is so wonderful to make new friends, and help our existing friends and family in the community who visit us at the Cartersville Medical Center.