Become a Volunteer
Being an HVCH volunteer provides you an opportunity to serve your community
Volunteers play a prominent role in the lives of patients and staff at Hocking Valley Community Hospital. Their contributions enhance the programs and services provided by our hospital every day.
Being a volunteer gives a sense of fulfillment and purpose and offers a wonderful opportunity to meet new people and create lasting friendships.
If you would like more information on becoming a volunteer at HVCH, please complete the contact form below, or download and return the Volunteer Application.
To inquire about teen volunteer service programs (ages 16 and older), please contact (740) 380-8336.
Benefits Include:
- Free lunch on volunteer days
- Annual recognition
- Gifts and awards
- Pharmacy privileges including discounted prescriptions
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer opportunities include, but are not limited to:
Information Desk
Greets the public; escorts patients and visitors, responds to telephone inquiries, delivers patient mail and floral arrangements; provides directional information.
Messenger Service
Picks up, sorts, and delivers inter-departmental correspondence throughout the building and transports U.S. mail to and from the mailroom.
Patient PAL
Serves as an advocate to patients and visitors in a specific patient care unit by rounding to patient rooms to ensure needs of patients and visitors are met.
Pet Therapy
Visits patients with a registered therapy dog. Your dog must be registered through an acceptable organization with all paperwork on file to proceed.
Registration
Greets patients arriving for outpatient procedures; assures these patients get through the registration process in a timely and orderly manner; escorts patients to testing locations; delivers paperwork to patient units.
Materials Management
Works with department to assist in inventory and shelving.
Clerical Support
Volunteers provide clerical support in a variety of departments, such as Accounting, Administration, Contracts and Collections, Community Relations, Human Resources, Education, Outpatient Therapy Services.
Courtesy Cart
Visits various patient and waiting rooms with courtesy cart that is stocked with books, magazines, cookies and/or refreshments.
Crafters
Volunteers will create handmade items for patients and visitors. Can be done at home or as a group setting onsite.
Chaplain Services
Visits patient bedsides to identify the patients’ church affiliation, and with permission of patient notifies church of hospitalization. Provides spiritual support if requested. All volunteer chaplains must be ordained ministers.
Courtyard Caretaker
Helps water and maintain planters and flower beds in the HVCH courtyard and around the hospital. Also may help fill bird feeders in courtyard and around patient windows.