Volunteer opportunity promise hospital
 

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Volunteer Open House at PROMISE HOSPITAL of Florida at THE VILLAGES

When: Tuesday September 16, 2014
Time:2 to 4 pm

Where: Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages
5050 CR 472,
The Villages

Follow Rainey Trail off Buena Vista

What: VIP (Volunteers in Promise) open house to promote its expanded volunteer opportunities.
Villagers will be given a tour of Promise Hospital and a chance to ask questions. Light refreshments will be served.

Contact Jean Klinkenberg at 352-689-6428
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Please come out and see what there is to offer. You won't be disappointed

August 16 has gone by.

Correction. Tuesday September 16th
 

Thanks for pointing out my error

Question?
 

Promise Healthcare, Inc. is a for profit Corporation. Why do they need volunteers?

Business & Financial Differences Between Profit & Nonprofit Hospitals | Chron.com

I would guess that people volunteer at a hospital to make the patients feel a little better, free up medical personnel to do their thing etc. The patients are feeling lousy at both for profit and not for profit hospitals and need their mail delivered and the juice cart to come around.

Amen Gracie.

The Volunteers are NOT there to replace the paid employees but to strengthen the services provided to the clients. The volunteers are a valuable addition to all healthcare establishments. They do help the clients feel special with their touch and the time they take with them.

Thank you Gracie.

Yes...thank you Gracie.

As Gracie said, both types of hospitals probably have patients who feel lousy and need cheering up.
I'm hoping to offer my time at this Acute Care Hospital, if they will accept seasonal volunteers.
I don't understand why it matters if the hospital is for profit, or not for profit.
I would very much appreciate if someone could explain that to me as I'm not familiar with the health care system in the US.

Non profits are set up as a certain type of corporation that are tax exempt. For instance, some religious institutions operate hospitals that are non profit.

I don't think there is any difference in quality one way or another. I am more interested in how they are staffed.

Let me state right out of the chute that I support and endorse volunteer work. My comments are therefore not along the philosophical line but rather academic in nature

Just three questions from an uninformed member but exactly what services does Promise provide and for whom?

Secondly, as to "for profits", and from a management prospective exactly what is the affect positive /negative to employees when volunteers are hired as to say wages, job duties, expectations? Because while the concept of volunteer is a good thing it may or it may not have unintentional consequences?

Thirdly, as to number two how does such an arrangement affect volunteers?

I pose this question because of the ongoing debate concerning college intern programs employed by companies.

I've witnessed the disproportionate treatment of internships within corporations over the years

Perhaps the simple answer is there are no issues employees welcome the help but my style is to test for concern that I may make some wrong assumptions.

I do not intend to invite argument but solicit opinion/information

Most hospitals cannot operate without their beloved volunteers.

Promise hospital is for wound care.

We had a friend who had to have a very large skin graft to the abdomen and was released from Shands to go to Promise. We visited him there many times and learned a great deal about the need for such specific hospitals.

He received very specific and innovative treatments for his slowly healing site and there were many protections that had to be followed for the safety of the patients and for the staff and guests too. I was very glad that our friend had such excellent medical help in such pleasant surroundings. It took him four months to recover entirely and after the crucial time was over at Promise he finished recovery in one of our rehab facilties.

Promise is a new-er hospital down Rainey Trail, I think it opened about three years ago. It is golf cart accessible.

This is the way that the mission of Promise Hospital was explained to me.
It seems a good place to volunteer.

"Promise is a Long Term Acute Care Hospital.
We have 40 beds, 8 of them are Intensive Care beds.
We have very sick patients who are acutely, chronically ill.
They have a length of stay of about 25 days which gives us time to get them well enough to either go home or to a rehab hospital.
We do provide rehab type care but are not a rehab hospital."

I actually took two Schnauzer's over to Promise to visit their owner who was there for 30 days and the CEO personally thanked me for bringing them in. Besides cheering up the patient, he said it also boosts the spirits of the entire staff. There are numerous ways to volunteer & spread cheer to those not feeling well.

A little off topic, but--

When I lived in northern Virginia, I participated in a volunteer program called "Pets on Wheels" to take pets to nursing homes. Both of my cats had a health test and a psychological test for the program. In the psych test they wanted to see how the cats reacted to be being pinched, a wheelchair stopping inches from them and someone dropping a tray near them. Both of my cats passed the testing, but Cocoa seemed nervous so he only went a couple of times.

Cheetah seemed to thrive on the nursing home visits and we went almost every weekend. He would sit on their laps and the residents loved it. We were a part of that program for a couple of years. They always remembered Cheetah's name but never mine!

Do they have such a program in Florida? My current cat, Torie, would be great!

A little off topic, and a lot late, but, on the issue of "for profits" needing volunteers, I was wondering why people volunteer for the Villages Lifelong Learning Center. They are a profit making business without any patients to cheer up!