Volunteer at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Benefits of Service
Our top priority at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is to provide quality, compassionate care. As a volunteer, you can help us accomplish this goal by answering questions or just lending a helping hand. Our volunteers make a difference in the lives of our patients, visitors and staff every day. Volunteering offers a rewarding opportunity to share your talents and interests in departments and roles throughout the hospital.
Though we can never truly repay our volunteers for all they do to help our patients and caregivers, we do offer the following as expressions of gratitude:
- Free cafeteria meal on each day you volunteer
- Annual volunteer recognition event
- Annual flu shot
General Volunteer Opportunities
- Ambassador Volunteers: Hospital Entrance
Greeting visitors upon arrival, retrieving wheelchairs for departments requesting discharge or transportation assistance, delivering flowers/cards to patient rooms, and escorting visitors to their intended location. - Department Volunteers: Patient Care Units
Assisting with patient requests for non-clinical needs, responding to call lights, stocking supplies within patient rooms, transporting patients via wheelchair, or assisting with interdepartmental deliveries of supplies/materials. Volunteers may assist in patient care areas in the med/surg area, intensive care units, ambulatory surgery or emergency room. - Family Liaison Volunteers: Waiting Rooms
Greeting individuals upon arrival, answering phones and general questions, directing visitors to surgical, cardiac, or ICU waiting rooms and escorting outpatients to procedural areas. - Administrative/Ancillary Support Volunteers: Office/Department
Administrative support such as answering phones, filing, data entry, scanning of documents and preparing packets of paperwork. Volunteers may be assigned to employee health, human resources, outpatient rehabilitation, medical staff services or other departments requesting volunteer assistance.
The people who give their time to the staff and patients at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center will tell you that the rewards of volunteering are innumerable. Sometimes just offering compassion to others can uplift your own spirit. We also like to offer a little something more to say thank you for choosing to volunteer with us.
Pet Therapy Volunteers
Studies have shown that pet therapy can help improve a patient’s cardiovascular health, decrease their anxiety, promote a healing environment, and provide sense of comfort during a hospitalization. As a pet therapy volunteer you would have the ability to provide a unique, comforting and memorable patient experience. In order to reach our goal of offering pet therapy services on a daily basis, we are looking for more volunteers to join our growing pet therapy program. In order to become a Pet Therapy Volunteer, you must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Your pet must be registered and remain in good standing with a pet therapy certifying organization.
- You must be at least 18 years of age and your animal must be at least one year of age.
- The pet must be in good health and have a current/annual health record from a veterinarian.
Volunteer applicants will need to complete an in-person interview, a health screening with Employee Health, and a background check with Human Resources.
Students
College students needing volunteer hours for their curriculum are welcome to volunteer for a semester or throughout the academic year and/or over summers.
Volunteens
The Volunteen program at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center allows teenagers ages 14 - 17 the opportunity to serve in a variety of areas of the hospital. The program gives many teenagers their first work experience, as well as the opportunity to consider a career in healthcare. Staff members at Palm Beach Gardens enjoy mentoring these students and teaching them about the various career paths in healthcare available to them.
We are always looking for new volunteers!