Harborview volunteers provide essential help in many ways throughout the medical center to help make patients’ stays more comfortable.
- Providing support to patients, families and visitors
- Restocking supplies in inpatient units
- Providing non-medical comfort to patients
- Preparing rooms for new patients
- Providing administrative support in medical offices
- Running errands for inpatient units
- Reading to children
- 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