Articles from the Newsletter

• Volunteering, Good for your Health 
• 2008 Elaine M. Hill Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service: Joan Shedd      

• UNC Hospitals Volunteer Memorials
• Healing and Hope Through Science
• 2008 World Burn Congress Returns to North Carolina
• NCHV 25th Anniversary Educational Conference

 Parking Update

Beginning August 15, 2008, when the new parking year begins, all volunteers need to sign the back of their parking ticket before giving it to the attendant.

You must also sign in and out on the computer in either the Volunteer Services Office or at the new location at the Women's Hospital Information desk unless you have been directed by Suzanne to provide your hours in a different manner.

This new procedure will allow us to better track our parking charges as they relate to the number of hours donated.

Thank you in advance for your help.

It's Scholarship Time

New Volunteer Opportunities

(details can be found in the full pdf newletter)

Did you know that every year the UNC Hospitals Volunteer Association gives:

• Fifteen, two thousand dollar scholarships to outstanding junior and college volunteers;
• Five thousand dollars to Allied Health Sciences for educational support;
• Thirty thousand dollars to the Nurses’ scholarship Magnet Program;
• Five thousand dollars to Durham Technical college for scholarships awarded to UNC Hospitals employees who are students at the college;
• One thousand dollars to the Fran Ross Scholarship Fund.

That’s $71,000 a year to a very worthy cause all of which support UNC Hospitals employees and volunteers.

•  Volunteer Concierge Desk - Available in September; There will be three volunteers at this desk who will escort patients and visitors to their destination throughout the hospital.  They will have information on places to stay overnight, restaurants, laundry facilities, etc.
• Medical Intensive Care Waiting Room - This waiting room serves both the MICU and MPCU.  The nursing staff have requested that volunteers explain to new families the visiting procedures and provide the other services that ICU patients and families need.
• Second Grade Tours - These volunteers provide a tour of certain hospital departments to second grade students from schools in the area.  This is a very flexible opportunity.  Volunteers are able to sign up for days that fit their schedule and no one has to volunteer every week.
• Clinical Cancer Center - Several Volunteer Opportunities are available in this area: greeter, playroom volunteers, and art program volunteers.