Volunteer Opportunities

Greets and guides patients; ensuring timely service and communication regarding delays to provide the best possible service to the patient.

Assist and greet the public at the main entrance of the Avera Surgery Center, answer questions, and direct patients and visitors to general locations on the hospital campus.

Monitors the phones and the computerized surgery message board, schedules consultation rooms for physicians and families to ensure confidentiality, and addresses family needs and concerns.

Serves as a receptionist in the Lobby of the 69th Street Behavioral Center, helping visitors locate patient room numbers, gives directions, answers questions, and maintains a tidy waiting area.

Provides assistance to patients to ensure that they receive timely response to their requests, that their comfort is maximized, and that their needs are met, alerting staff to clinical needs.

Act as receptionist for patients/outpatients and families as they come to the department and notify staff of patient's arrival. Assist the family in keeping track of amount of time test would take.

Serves as hostess-receptionist in the Waiting Room of Digestive Disease Institute in Plaza 1, escorting family members to the appropriate ready room after a procedure is complete, and assembling paperwork packets for patients.

Assists and welcomes the public entering Avera McKennan Hospital by helping them locate their destination, and assists the Emergency Department Registration Secretary with clerical duties.

Assists in tasks that will help with the flow of activities in the Emergency Room, including patient care and transfers as directed by staff, and delivering charts from ER to other units.

Assists staff in the Admissions Center, assembling charts, cleaning carts and transporting patients to their destination.

Works in the Gift Shop greeting and assisting customers and providing a welcoming environment; also assists Gift Shop staff as directed.

Provides comprehensive nursing care to a diverse multicultural and age group population. Assists the clinic personnel in daily duties of running the clinic.

Provides support services to patients, families and staff in accordance with patient plans of care. Orientation is held twice a year.

Assists and welcomes the public entering Avera McKennan Hospital facility by helping them locate their destination, using the hospital computer data base. This volunteer must communicate well with people and maintain a pleasant disposition.

Assists and welcomes the public entering Avera McKennan Hospital facility by helping them locate their destination, using the hospital computer data base. This volunteer must communicate well with people and maintain a pleasant disposition.

Answers the phone, checks in family members and visitors of ICU patients, facilitates communication with hospital staff, and offers items to meet physical needs and offers emotional comfort and support.

Works in the Lab Draw area greeting and assisting customers, escorting them to other areas if needed, and logging the patient’s arrival.

Assist and welcome the public entering Plaza 2 by helping them locate their destinations.

Assists customers visiting Plaza 3 to their destination, keeping directions simple and to a minimum, answers visitor questions about the hospital or Sioux Falls, or refers them to someone who can inform them, and assists with transporting patients within the building as well as to the hospital.

Offers assistance, support and encouragement to heart disease patients and their families, mainly achieved through hospital visits.

Acts as a welcoming greeter by answering the phone and guiding guests and visitors to NICU 4, assisting in maintaining a secure environment for newborns.

Provides comfort and support to infants and parents. Orientation held in February, June and October.

Provides assistance to patients to ensure that they receive timely response to their requests, that their comfort is maximized, and that their needs are met, alerting staff to clinical needs.

Provide assistance to patients to ensure that they receive timely response to their requests, that their comfort is maximized, and that their needs are met.

Provides a safe, hospitable method of transporting or escorting patients and families throughout the hospital campus; pushing wheelchairs when necessary, and picking up and delivering items throughout the hospital and clinics.

Works as a greeter and guide in the Prairie Center, answering guest questions, using the computer system if necessary, and assisting patients in finding and getting to the clinic for their appointment, sometimes by wheelchair.

Assists nursing home staff with structured activities, including outings and special events. Visit with the residents/patients who choose not to be involved in group activities.

Is a welcoming greeter and guide to Women’s Center guests and visitors; assisting in maintaining a secure environment for newborns.

Greets and guides guests and visitors to the Women’s Center; assisting in maintaining a secure environment for newborns.