Needs From: United Way of Southeast Minnesota

Use your crafty skills to bring joy and comfort to our patients.

Sew and/or knit various items including blankets, gift packages for newborns that include burp cloths and baby hats, tummy pillows, toe cozies and more. These items are distributed to patients to provide comfort, warmth, and relaxation.

This opportunity can be done on site or from the comfort of your home.

Duties include:
* Sewing/knitting, cutting, measuring, packing

Role requirements:
* Friendly, reliable, patient and respectful.
* Able to follow direction and enjoy teamwork. (if joining sewing group)
* Submitting to a background clearance. (if on site)
* Immunization/Vaccination protocols apply (on-site)

How to apply:
Apply online by going to www.olmmed.org/become-a-caregiver/volunteer-application

You don't need to be a sewer to join. Volunteers are also needed to cut materials, stuff pillows, and other projects.

Please note: this is not a group for learning how to sew/knit; existing volunteers are not providing instruction.

Before creating any items, please contact 507.292.7210 or volunteer@olmmed.org for patterns and drop off directions.

Spend a few hours in our gift shop, the Gift Box, greeting patients, family members and staff. Help to make them feel welcomed and appreciated.

Gift Box volunteers are sometimes the first person a hospital guest will see upon arrival. You have the chance to show OMC's high standard of customer service and care by helping with gift selection, handling transactions, keeping the shop clean and neat, helping to select inventory, and assisting guests with finding their appointment locations. 

The current hours are 10am to 2pm Monday through Friday.

New shifts of 4pm to 7pm, or similar, have started to accommodate students and working adults. Weekends can be available as well.

No experience required. We will train and provide support.

Duties include:
* Greet and assist customers, patients, visitors and staff.
* Support, listen and interact with patients visiting the shop.
* Handle a variety of cash/credit sales with patients, visitors and staff.
* Stock shelves, organize, assist with inventory and tidy shop.

Role requirements:
* Must be 16 years of age or older.
* Able to assist patients/visitors who have physical and/or cognitive challenges.
* Physically capable of assisting patients and carrying out the physical tasks of the role as required.
* Submitting to a background clearance.
* Immunization/Vaccination protocols apply

Volunteer with a Friend - No need to be in the Gift Box alone. Volunteer with a friend and give back together.

How to apply:
If this opportunity interests you, please visit our website to complete a Volunteer Application: Volunteer Application (olmmed.org)

or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@olmmed.org or 507.292.7210

Volunteer Greeters set the tone for the patient experience at OMC. When walking into our facilities, our caring, knowledgeable and thoughtful greeters help patients and their families with finding their physician, understanding safety and protocols when necessary, and assisting patients out of the facility. This may include pushing wheelchairs.

Greeting is done anytime Monday thru Friday typically between 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM in the Women's Health Pavilion at our hospital on 4th Street SE. The Greeter position is also available on the Hospital side, near Cafe 49.

If this opportunity interests you, please visit our website to complete a Volunteer Application: Volunteer Application (olmmed.org).

or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@olmmed.org or 507.292.7210

Volunteers offer spiritual support to patients, family members, caregivers, staff, and others. Certified clergy or lay persons may provide visits. Spiritual care services include, but are not limited to, communion, companionship, spiritual counseling, last rites, prayer, and baptism.

If this opportunity interests you, please visit our website to complete a Volunteer Application: Volunteer Application (olmmed.org)

or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@olmmed.org or 507.292.7210

Have you ever walked into a large building and felt lost? Would you have loved someone in the lobby to answer your questions and guide you to your destination?

Check-In Assistants help patients and their families find appointment locations, to understand any safety protocols that may be in place, guide patients through the virtual check-in at our kiosk, and assist patients in, out and around the facility. This may include pushing a wheelchair.

Available hours are Monday – Friday between 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM at our Northwest & Southeast Clinics.

If this opportunity interests you, please visit our website to complete a Volunteer Application: Volunteer Application (olmmed.org)

or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@olmmed.org or 507.292.7210

The look on a patient's face when a beautiful therapy dog comes into their room is priceless. Stress and anxiety wash away. They instantly forget what they are doing; forget they are in a hospital. Be a part of bringing that joy and comfort to our patients.

Requirements:
* Canine Companion teams must be certified through a nationally accredited therapy dog organization and maintain that certification with the nationally accredited certifying organization at all times while volunteering at OMC.
* Continued compliance with all rules, policies, procedures and protocols of that nationally accredited organization is required.
* Participate in OMC general orientation
* Adhere to immunization/vaccination protocols regarding COVID, Influenza and TB.

If this opportunity interests you, please visit our website to complete a Volunteer Application. You will be contacted within 24 hours. Volunteer Application (olmmed.org)

Any questions, please contact the Community & Volunteer Engagement Coordinator at 292.7210 or volunteer@olmmed.org

Olmsted Medical Center strives to create a relaxing and caring environment for patients and guests. One way we do this is by offering complementary refreshments in our Outpatient Services waiting area.

This is offered Monday- Friday from 8:00am to 10:00am.

At the start of your shift, you will pick up the beverage cart from Café 49 at the main hospital entrance and take it to the 2nd floor Outpatient waiting area. You will help serve hot beverages and offer a small snack, help answer basic questions and offer directions within the hospital, sometimes even walking a person to their desired location. 

This is a low-stress volunteer position, but one that is vital to our mission of partnering for better health and better lives. 

If this opportunity interests you, please visit our website to complete a Volunteer Application: Volunteer Application (olmmed.org)

or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@olmmed.org or 507.292.7210