Our volunteers at High Point Regional Health System are truly exceptional—they are always willing to take the extra steps that make the difference in our customers’ hospital experiences. Volunteers include working adults, senior citizens, students, homemakers and people from different walks of life who wish to contribute their time, gifts and skills. Each year, over 400 volunteers provide thousands of hours supporting the Health System’s mission, vision and values. The diversity of services and projects allows volunteers the opportunity to select work that best suits their interests and schedules.
The key qualifications for High Point Regional Health System volunteers are teamwork, compassion, a caring attitude and a respect for confidentiality. We invite you to explore our many opportunities. Thank you for your interest!
Art Therapy
Volunteers provide arts and crafts for Rehab Therapy patients.
Entrance Desk Volunteers
Volunteers who staff the entrance desks provide visitors with patient room numbers and locations of various departments and escort patients to their destinations.
Central Supply Rounds
Make rounds on nursing units throughout the hospital picking up equipment.
Clerical Projects/Department Assistants
For those volunteers who enjoy helping “behind the scenes”, both short-term and long-term projects are available. Volunteers perform a wide range of support for various departments with tasks such as filing, collating, addressing and stuffing envelopes, answering phones and running errands.
Daycare Center
These volunteers assist staff with children in the Health System’s daycare center.
Day Hospital Receptionist
Volunteers register and escort patients, answer phones and serve as a liaison between patients, families and staff.
Discharge Escorts
Volunteers transport patients from their rooms to their cars after discharge and run errands for the nursing units.
Emergency Department
Volunteers serve as a liaison between families, patients and medical staff. They provide regular non-medical updates, round on patients and assist with special needs.
Flower and Mail Delivery
Volunteers bring good cheer to patients by delivering mail and flowers.
Golf Cart “Caddies”
These volunteers enjoy transporting supplies from the main hospital to an offsite department just across the street. Volunteer must be able to drive a Golf Cart. They tell us it’s fun!
Greeter/Way Finder
These are first impression volunteers who assist the entrance desk volunteers with greeting and escorting customers.
Musicians
Professional pianists provide music therapy for patients and play the grand piano which is located in the main lobby of the hospital.
Nursing Units
Volunteers provide assistance to patients under the direction of nurses. Areas in which they may assist include sitting with patients, serving drinks and assisting with meal trays, answering call buttons and running errands.
Community Clinic
Volunteers staff the receptionist desk. They answer the phone, greet and register customers and assist the staff as needed.
Surgery Waiting Host/Hostess
Families and friends wait in this area while the patients are in surgery. Volunteers register families, provide non-medical updates, serve as a liaison between the family and medical staff and provide refreshments.
Whatever is needed...
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HPRHS Volunteering
