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- Local Volunteer Organizations (United Way etc.)
- Corporation for National Service Site
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Why Volunteer?
The lives you touch may include your own!
- Gain new skills
- Meet new people
- Make use of your talents
- Explore career possibilities
- Gain personal satisfaction
Benefits of Volunteering
- Live a Healthier and Happier Life
- Free Meal while providing service in Lil’ General Café
- Free cup of coffee in the coffee shop
- Gift Shop Discounts – 20% on all regular purchases
- Uniforms are provided
- Recognition is on-going
Volunteer Opportunities The Goal of Volunteer Services is to match your interests and talents with available volunteer opportunities.
- Greeters / Escorts – Volunteers help with escorting patients to their service areas or physician offices. As a volunteer, you provide the information and direction patients, their families and friends need when entering the hospital.
- Clerical Volunteer – Greeters welcome and assist patients and visitors to the hospital by providing a warm and friendly atmosphere to incoming guests. Greeters are stationed at entrances and make hospital visits easier for patients, families and visitors by giving directions and information.
- Gift Shop Volunteer – The Lobby Shop is an important part of OGHS. Caring individuals and a wonderful atmosphere make it a pleasure to visit. Patients and families enjoy browsing the beautiful shop for the gift item for someone special. Volunteers are needed to help with customer service and delivery.
- Volunteer Couriers – Couriers contribute an essential service to OGHS by delivering necessary items for hospital departments.
- Volunteer Hostess –Volunteers provide warm and friendly hospitality to patients, their families and friends, during their hospital stay. Volunteers visit patient areas and offer to patients and their visitor’s free coffee and magazines.
- ER Volunteers – Volunteers assist personnel with non-professional tasks and acts as a liaison to patients and visitors. Volunteers provide helpful and courteous interaction with all patients and visitors, thereby enhancing the support patients and their families need.
- Healing Garden – A place of beauty and tranquility for patients, their families, employees, volunteers, and the community. Volunteers are needed to help with maintaining the garden.
For information contact the Office of Volunteer Service at 337-943-7189 or email: deloreskidder@opelousasgeneral.com | |
Volunteer Services – A Tradition of Volunteering
“Volunteer is the moment you realize that what you have done meant the world to someone else” – A Volunteer
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be only kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.” William Penn |