We have had not had any volunteers in house since March of 2020. Our area has been having too many ups and not enough downs with Covid. We hope to bring them back onboard again in April 2021.

Thanks everyone for responding to my topic about volunteers returning.  This has been very helpful.  I sure do miss everyone. 

Stay safe

Judy 

This is good information to hear.  We currently have no volunteers back on site.  I have one volunteer who is also an employee that puts packets together for me and was granted permission to help occasionally since he works there too.

Miss you all! 

We do have several service areas where we are placing volunteers:  Outpatient Center - escorting/transporting patients, Same Say Surgery Waiting, FaithHealth, Gift Shop and twice a month for Eye Surgery where we utilize approx. 12 volunteers each time. Those who are currently volunteering must wear surgical masks, eye protection and are being educated on more stricter sanitation rules. No volunteers are allowed in the ED or patient rooms. All volunteers that have returned are being offered the COVID vaccine and all but one of them have jumped at the chance to receive the vaccine.  As of last week, we have stopped all visitation (again) with the exception of one support person for maternity patients, pediatric patients and end of life. 

We also have several FaithHealth volunteers who have been set up with computers at home so they can continue to assist clients. Those volunteers play an important role with FaithHealth but do not feel comfortable coming into the hospital. None of our FaithHealth volunteers are seeing patients, everyone is done by phone and/or mail.   

 I hope this helps!  

We have about 15 volunteers currently serving Information Desk, Gift Shop, and Surgical Waiting Room.