Harold Hatton is ready to go home. Perched on the end of his bed he’s just waiting for a Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) volunteer to arrive to porter him to the main entrance. With much gusto, his porter arrives and that’s ...

Volunteers give freely of their time and expertise to enhance patients’ lives. But last year the need surfaced at St. Joseph’s Health Care London to increase the satisfaction level of volunteers with their assignments, and of staff members with the ...

Today, the increasing demand for health care, coupled with rising delivery costs, makes having a strong volunteer base more critical than ever. Volunteers continue to play an integral role in the health care system and one that is more essential ...

Volunteers are an integral part of any organization, but often, volunteers are behind the scenes and on the sidelines. When Markham Stouffville Hospital introduced the Expect Respect program at the Markham site of the hospital, volunteers were put front and ...

“We didn’t know how my son and I would get home from BC Children’s Hospital to Prince George, then my mother-in-law heard about Hope Air,” says Stefanie, mother of two-year-old James, who has leukemia. Stefanie and James were sent by ...

  In an effort to offer continued support to children and youth undergoing surgery, the operating room (OR) staff at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), implemented a program that allows parents to be present during the anaesthetic induction of ...

Volunteers are the lifeblood of non-profit organizations, but how many of them rely primarily on volunteers to realize their vision? At the core of ORBIS is its flagship Flying Eye Hospital, the world’s first hospital with wings and most recognizable ...

Two of The Scarborough Hospital’s plastic surgeons have done it again – performing microsurgical ‘firsts’ in their volunteer work in the Third World. Drs. Tim Sproule and Sarah Wong travelled to La Paz, Bolivia in March, where they set up the ...