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.

Volunteer Interest Form

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.

Summer program: We will begin accepting applications January 1, 2019 for our Summer 2019 program. Our Summer program is open to teens aged 15-18, and consists of a minimum commitment of 7 weeks (one 4 hour shift per week). After you apply, you will be notified in March if you are going to be interviewed. Spaces are limited. Jr. Volunteers are placed in a volunteer position in late May and will volunteer from June – August.

School Year (Fall/Spring) program: Available to high school seniors only and is a partnership between LAH and select high schools in Littleton, Jefferson County and Douglas County. These Jr. Volunteers are in a special career class at their respective high schools, earning credit for their volunteer time at Littleton Adventist Hospital.

Volunteer Interest Form

The Spirit to Innovate - The Heart to Heal

• Summer Volunteer Newsletter 2018

Past Newsletters

• Spring Volunteer Newsletter 2018
• Winter Volunteer Newsletter 2017
• Summer Volunteer Newsletter 2017
• Spring Volunteer Newsletter 2017

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 Hospital

Phone: 303-738-2687
Email