Volunteer at Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center

Becoming a Volunteer

Volunteers play an integral part in the Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center community — providing valuable services to the medical center and its two nursing homes, Florence Hand Home and Twin Fountains Home. If you are interested in volunteering, you will have a wide variety of opportunities to match your skills and interests, such as assisting patients to treatment areas, delivering flowers, providing complimentary books, delivering and reading mail to nursing home residents, assisting customers in the gift shop and more.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Call Room  — Assist patients upon admission to treatment areas, deliver flowers, and escort patients and belongings to dismissal area.
• Central Supply — Assist the staff with assembling and counting inventory, stocking shelves, and other tasks as assigned.
• Chaplains/Spiritual Health — Provide religious, spiritual, and humanist care to all patients and families.
• Enoch Callaway Cancer Center — Serve as a host for patients and family members and transport labs to main hospital.
• Florence Hand Home/Twin Fountains Home — Help with various activities provided for the residents, deliver and read mail, visit with residents, staff beauty shop, work in the library, etc.
• Gift Shop  — Assist customers, ring up sales (a great portion of auxiliary funds are raised in the gift shop).
• Information Desk — Provide information to visitors regarding patient rooms and directions.
• Mobile Book Cart — Provide complimentary book service to patients, visitors, and team members.

Fill out the form

• Complete the online volunteer application form.
• Complete the background check consent form.
• Applicants born after 1957 must include immunization records.
• Drop the forms off at the Information Desk in the South Tower Lobby, email to Susan Ferguson at [email protected] or mail to: Volunteer Services, 1514 Vernon Road, LaGrange, GA 30240.

Attend orientation

• Learn hospital policies and procedures.
• Learn about confidentiality and volunteer agreements.
• Order complimentary uniform, complete TB testing, and obtain hospital name badge.

 

Most volunteer opportunities are available from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Volunteers are asked to commit to at least one four-hour shift each week for six months or 100 hours, whichever comes first.

 

For more information, email the Director of Volunteer Services at [email protected].