- Providing support to patients, families, and visitors
- Restocking supplies in inpatient units
- Providing non-medical comfort to patient
- Preparing rooms for new patients
- Providing administrative support in a medical office
- Running errands for an inpatient unit
- Reading to children and assisting them with crafts
- Assisting customers in the Gift Shop
- Changing bed linens
- Answering patient calls
- Socializing with patients
- Facilitating family and visitor contact with staff; such as chaplains, social workers, physicians, specific nurses, etc.
- Escorting non-critical patients to appointments
- Directing patients' families and friends to hospital units, clinics or other destinations
- Distributing books, magazines, and activities to patient rooms and waiting areas.
Volunteers also assist behind the scenes and in the Harborview Gift Shop. Proceeds from the Gift Shop assist in funding for the for the non-medical needs of patients and their families.