Needs From: United Way of Rhode Island

The work taking place in offices throughout the organization are critical to supporting our healthcare workers and patients, alike!  Help is needed in different departments at Women & Infants and Butler Hospitals as well as Corporate Services to organize files and information, create packets of materials to educate and inform, input data and information, prepare mailings or support other clerical projects.

Greet and support patients, families and staff in the Infusion Center at Women & Infants Hospital.  Help facilitate the flow of non-clinical activity during the patients' chemotherapy treatments.  This may include providing comfort items, assisting with meals and snacks, offering companionship, organizing information and materials for use by staff and others.

Strong candidates for this position are compassionate, friendly and are able to work independently following training.  Bilingual skills are helpful but not necessary.

Hospice volunteers provide a range of support and companionship to patients who are facing end of life and to their family members. Whether going to visit, lend a helping hand, play cards,  provide a listening ear, read to or simply be a quiet presence so they are not alone, hospice volunteers are specially trained to connect with patients in their homes.  

Some volunteers provide their support out of the office of Hospice Care at the VNA of Care New England in Warwick.