For Volunteers, 'Patients First' Is Their Motto

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It takes more than a hundred volunteers per hospital to support most of the country's major medical centers. Each center utilizes these auxiliaries in a myriad of ways: registration of patients, patient escort, information desk, radiology, emergency units, intensive care, physical therapy, patient bed units (once called wards), cardiac rehabilitation, medical records, office assistance and many other tasks.

Personal help: Volunteers assist individual patients in many ways. They transport them in wheel chairs. They visit newly admitted patients to see if they have any questions and show them how to use the telephone and the TV. Many volunteers provide reading materials such as books, magazines and newspapers. Sometimes they deliver toys to children in pediatrics, and perform many other services.

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For Volunteers, 'Patients First' Is Their Motto

Origins: Volunteers come from various occupations: housewives, retired nurses, retired military pe...

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