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Volunteer Opportunities at Littleton Adventist Hospital
The BirthPlace
Volunteers help restock supplies, assist nurses, answer phones, assemble information packets.
Courtesy Services
Up front at the Welcome Center, Volunteers warmly greet visitors, assist with flower delivery, locate wheelchairs, escort patients in the hospital and run various errands throughout the hospital.
Emergency Department
Volunteers assist with preparing rooms for patients, restocking supplies, running errands for nurses and providing comfort measure for patients and guests.
Gift Shop
Volunteers provide excellent customer service for patients, visitors and staff shopping in the gift shop. Volunteers answer questions, run the cash register and assist in restocking shelves.
Information Desk
Volunteers at the information desk are the first to greet patients and guests and serve as goodwill ambassadors to all who visit Littleton Adventist Hospital. The primary duty is to direct guests to hospital departments.
Infusion Center
The infusion center provides chemotherapy and blood infusions for patients. Volunteers spend time visiting and getting to know patients undergoing treatments. Volunteers are the right hand assistant of the nurses, running errands and serving meal trays.
Intensive Care Waiting Room
Volunteers provide compassionate assistance to family and friends of patients in the ICU, greet visitors at the ICU entrance and call the nurse prior to visitors entering the unit.
Mail Delivery
Volunteers pick up and sort outgoing mail and deliver incoming mail to over 65 hospital departments. *This position requires significant walking throughout the hospital.
Nursing Units
Volunteers help restock nursing supplies in patient rooms, visit with patients, assemble packets for nurses and provide administrative assistance to nurses as well as the unit's secretary.
Nutrition Department - Patient Trays
Volunteers assist in assembling patient meal trays and accompany hospital staff to deliver trays to patients, visiting with them briefly.
Nutrition Department - Waiting Rooms
Volunteers restock coffee supplies and deliver newspapers to waiting rooms throughout the hospital and conduct simple patient food surveys.
Dog Therapy
Pet volunteers visit patients with their dog. Dogs must be 3 years old and go through a strict behavioral and health assessment prior to being accepted into the program. Pet volunteers commit to visiting patients two times per month. *Often there is a lengthy waiting list to enter this program.
Surgery Waiting Room
Volunteers provide compassionate care and communicate information to family and friends waiting for loved ones in surgery.
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Requirements for Volunteering
Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Littleton Adventist Hospital. Before completing the contact information form, please read the following requirements for being a volunteer:
- You must be willing to commit to a four hour volunteer shift, one day a week, for a minimum of six months.
- You must complete an application and go through an interview process.
- You must agree to a background check and TB test. (At no cost to you.)
- Flu Vaccine is required to volunteer
- You must attend a volunteer orientation and go through training for your specific volunteer position.
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Junior Volunteers
Summer Program 2021
Thank you for your interest in our eight-week Jr. Volunteer Summer Program for teens 15 – 17 years of age!
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have paused the 2021 Jr. Summer program at this time. If you are at least 15 years old and have already applied for the summer program, you will be kept on a list and contacted should the program reopen for this summer. At that time, you would be given an interview and all of the information needed to move forward in our Jr. Summer Program.
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Contact Manager of Volunteers
If you have questions, need further information regarding volunteering or if you have a compliment to pass along to one of our volunteers, please contact:
Manager of Volunteer Services
Littleton Adventist HospitalPhone: 303-738-2687
Email