Baptist Health Auxiliary Volunteers
Volunteers are special people with large hearts and warm smiles who give of themselves to others.
Baptist Health Auxilians, at all five hospitals, provide time and invaluable assistance to staff, patients, and their families. Thousands of hours are donated annually by more than 1,000 volunteers who give unselfishly of their time and talents. These volunteers also raise significant funds to offset the cost of caring for the area's residents by allowing Baptist Health to offer new services and technology.
By spending only three to four hours of service a week, you can be an
Active Member of one of Baptist Health's Auxiliaries!! Our members represent all ages and sectors of the community. If you are young at heart, energetic, and want to interact with patients, families, and staff, this is the place for you. Your participation will make a difference.
Areas of service include:
- Administrative Information Desk: Provide information and campus directions to visitors
- Patient Escort: Greet and escort patients to their rooms and assist staff as needed
- Waiting Room Liaison: Staff various waiting rooms and assist families or visitors and liaison between family and nursing staff in some areas
- Flower and Mail Delivery: Deliver floral arrangements and mail to patients
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Gift Shop: Assist customers with purchases in one of the gift shops. Gift shops are located in each of the hospitals (Downtown, Beaches, Nassau, and South) and in the Pavilion (downtown).
- Nursing Assistant: Assist the nursing staff with patient care, including discharge
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Pastoral Care: Assist with routine patient rounds and emergency on-call. One unit of Clinical Pastoral Education required for eligibility.
- Special Projects: Special events that may need additional assistance
- Transportation: Transfer patients from one department to another
- Activity Cart: Distribute crafts and activities to long-term patients and brighten their day
- Art: Provide bedside and planned art and craft activities for entertainment
- Music: Share one-on-one musical instrument and TLC with patients
- Library: Staff Library, read, tell a story, or share a learning experience with a patient or their siblings
- School Tours: Lead a tour of elementary children, K-2nd grade, to familiarize them with the hospital setting. Please note, tours available during the school year months only.
- Handiworks: Share with patients handmade items from the community including blankets, infant hats, gowns, cloth dolls and animals
- TLC: Assist the nursing staff with direct patient care support
- Hospitality Cart: Visit each patient room and supply patients' needs for blankets, formulas, magazines, and other personal items
Contact Us:
Find out what interesting and fulfilling service areas are available to volunteer your time and serve your community.
If you want to...
- Help others, be needed, or be challenged.
- Bring a friend and work together in a caring environment where you will have fun and your time will be most appreciated.
- Earn recognition for your service hours.
Accreditation
Current volunteers whose duties may take them into patient care settings partner with us in following safety guidelines. Additional information is
provided in the
Accreditation section of this website.
Volunteen Program
(2010 Vounteen Program is Full.)
The Baptist Medical Center Auxiliary's Volunteen Program has been in existence for 48 years with 54 students participating in the 2009 Summer program.
2009 Volunteens Photo
The program has been designed for those teens with a career goal in healthcare to contribute his/her unique talent and leadership skills. The teens gain valuable work experience by assisting staff in assigned clinical and non-clinical areas within the health center.
The Volunteen Program is open to teens age 15 through 17 and currently enrolled in high school, with a 3.0 GPA. The program operates during summer vacation, with opportunities available during the school year for "returning" teens that have successfully completed the summer program. The Volunteens are easily recognized by their blue golf shirt with the Baptist Medical Center Volunteen logo embroidered on the left chest.
The Program operates on the Duval County School calendar, with mandatory orientation immediately upon the close of the school year. Teens work one full day per week and must make a commitment to complete the 6 or 7-week program.
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Areas of service for 2009
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Adult Nursing Administration
Flowers Service Delivery
BMC Laboratory
BMC Auxiliary Rolling Store
Day Stay Unit
Emergency Department
Gift Shops (BMC and Pavilion)
Healing Library
Heart Hospital
Maternal Newborn
Medical Records
Medical Staff office
Medical Library
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Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit
Nutrition Resources Education
Pharmacy
Sleep Disorders Department
Term Nursery
Tower 4 (Med-surgical Intensive Care)
Tower 5 (Oncology)
Tower 7 (Neuroscience)
Valet Parking
Wolfie Wagon
Wolfson Children's Hospital
Women's Resource Library
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If you are interested in participating, please contact our office at
904.202.2059 during the month of January. Applications will be mailed the first of March, with students scheduled for individual, personal interviews early in April. Acceptance letters will be mailed in May.
The Volunteen Program is sponsored by the BMC Auxiliary, under the leadership of Sheila Rice, Director, Volunteer Services and Linda Miller, BMC Auxiliary, Volunteen Program Coordinator.
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