This week is National Volunteer Appreciation week and OSF HealthCare is taking the opportunity to thank all of their wonderful volunteers at the hospital. Holy Family Executive Assistant and Coordinator of Volunteer Services Jadyn Dwyer shares some of the positions filled daily by volunteers in the community:
“We have our gift shop in the hospital. It is open from 9 am to 4 pm Monday through Friday. Our volunteers who help out in the gift shop sometimes come to us with experience in retail, merchandising, and customer service. We have a group of volunteers who help daily with the mail sorting and delivery. When you come into the hospital, they are the first people you see, so we also have the outpatient registration greeters. We also patient escorts and we have a volunteer station in our surgery department for our busier days also. More behind the scenes, we have a sewing club that gets together once a month and they make surgical pillows, stuffed animals, walker bag, and lap blankets. All the projects are given to patients and visitors at the hospital and some of those items do end up in the gift shop as well. We have student volunteers who are there doing behind the scenes work as well and we have the best bakers who share their culinary talents when our auxiliary hosts their bake sales throughout the year.”
Volunteers are always needed. Applications can be completed online at http://osfholyfamily.org or a paper copy can be picked-up in the gift shop.
**Written by WMOI/WRAM Director of Communications Kelsey Crain**
