Volunteer Opportunities
High Point Regional welcomes your involvement!
Here are some ways in which you can become involved with
High Point Regional Health System:
Art Therapy
Volunteers provide arts and crafts for Rehab Therapy patients.
Entrance Desk Volunteers
Volunteers who staff the entrance desks provide visitors
with patient room numbers and locations of various departments
and escort patients to their destinations.
Central Supply Rounds
Make rounds on nursing units throughout the hospital picking
up equipment.
Clerical Projects/Department
Assistants
For those volunteers who enjoy helping “behind the
scenes”, both short-term and long-term projects are
available. Volunteers perform a wide range of support for
various departments with tasks such as filing, collating,
addressing and stuffing envelopes, answering phones, and
running errands.
Daycare Center
These volunteers assist staff with children in the Health
System’s daycare center.
Day Hospital Receptionist
Volunteers register and escort patients, answer phones,
and serve as a liaison between patients, families, and staff.
Discharge Escorts
Volunteers transport patients from their rooms to their
cars after discharge and run errands for the nursing units.
Emergency Department
Volunteers serve as a liaison between families, patients,
and medical staff. They provide regular non-medical updates,
round on patients, and assist with special needs.
Flower and Mail Delivery
Volunteers bring good cheer to patients by delivering mail
and flowers.
Golf Cart “Caddies”
These volunteers enjoy transporting supplies from the main
hospital to an offsite department just across the street.
Volunteer must be able to drive a Golf Cart…. They
tell us it’s fun!
Greeter/Way Finder
These are first impression volunteers who assist the entrance
desk volunteers with greeting and escorting customers.
Musicians
Professional pianists provide music therapy for patients
and play the grand piano which is located in the main lobby
of the hospital.
Nursing Units
Volunteers provide assistance to patients under the direction
of nurses. Areas in which they may assist include sitting
with patients, serving drinks and assisting with meal trays,
answering call buttons, and running errands.
Community Clinic
Volunteers staff the receptionist desk. They answer the
phone, greet and register customers, and assist the staff
as needed.
Surgery Waiting Host/Hostess
Families and friends wait in this area while the patients
are in surgery. Volunteers register families, provide non-medical
updates, serve as a liaison between the family and medical
staff, and provide refreshments.
Whatever is needed...
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