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8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Mar. 2, 1977 ENA ATTY § eA aL by PS SO RAN ¥ QAI SHA ' es Tix 2 A RR SI Wa a i REHRCE REA WARES LEAL BRA AS SATO ik ey gel edad XAT Ra RET HN Community volunteers integral part of hospital ; Imagine a stay in a into health care as possible. Main idea behind the hospital, and most of us will It is in these areas of volunteer program is not to visualize an antiseptic, cold- care, the minor but import- replace regular hospital « ly efficient environment, ant amenities that makes a services and staff, but to often strange and seemingly stay in hospital pleasant as augment them. "It frees hostile. To some, a stay in possible, that the role of the the professional people-- the hospital would be a hospital volunteer in an nurses, doctors--to put their frightening experience, invaluable one. - full time into their complete with needles, "Without the many volun- particular, skills." v scalpels and solemn doctors teers from the community If volunteers were not . with bad news. that work here at the hospi- * readily available, Mrs. * In short, it just isn't tal," said Community White explains, 'hospital home. of Memorial Hospital nursing regular staff would have to 3 Luckily, this interpre- head Jennifer White, "the do the work." "In the end," ih tation of a stay in the standard of care would she said, "it would simply A i's hospital is incorrect, with undoubtedly go down. The mean less would get done." ES AY hospital administration and volunteer program has be- She explained that an staffs attempting to put as come an integral part of our ambitious hospital rehabili- much of the human element hospital services." tation program now being RY ' planned would be 'out of i the question' without volun- teers willing to give their - time. ; At least 12 volunteers will 3 be involved in the program, Uo which will cover a wide VO range of rehabilitation from speech therapy to physio- y therapy. i The Port Perry hospital's volunteer . programs are { < expanding all the time. The A "hospital has been operating for some time with both the "Candy Striper" program (young volunteers) and the 3 ladies "auxiliary. But the 0) newest, most ambitious J program so far has been the 4: In-Hospital Volunteer Services project. X Set up originally with the assistance of the auxiliary, ' the program has grown rbd 4 : : 1h am 2 Banga - Zo. Mrs. Lila Czilok helps a patient in the physiotherapy department at Port + al 20 trlay. There ore volun. Perry's Community Memorial Hospital. She's one of a growing number of 4 tours La their 20's, and there volunteers at the hospital, helping out by freeing full-time staffers to do the jobs i are senior citizens. All play they were'trained for. According fo Jennifer White, head of the nursing staff, 8 an important part in hos- the volunteers provide an Invaluable service in hospital care, 5 pA ¥ pital services, many bring- Po 1 : SHEVA CS 84 : - W hell Wiis 1d Word has gotten around - that's 1,300 hours of work response as very -good. - = Me The need for such a "ince then, however, and that would otherwise have "For the size of the com- { vohmteer program became members put in between to be handled by the munity, we have experienc- i obvious when hospital three and eight hours a hospital's full-time staff. ed excellent participation." fi staffers were hard-pressed week each on an average, . Since the program began, she said. %, § to find someone who had "°measmany as 16 hours a there's been little problem In-some areas of hospital i enough time to sit with a week, enlisting volunteers, al- care, the volunteer worker 4 | patient who had to be kept The impact of the volun- though more .are always is indispensable. "Care of Jif 7 Nora Stone's special interest is hairdressing, and under observation all 'the teer program on the needed. "We get volunteers children is an area where 4 WA she's always In demand by patients at the hospital. tiie. hospital's. operation is through word of mouth," - volunteers are very import: dd } With the_ help of 'the obvious, considering that said volunteer program co- ant." : J auxiliary, the volunteer the. monthly average of ordinator "Mrs. Huston. . .Care- for the ' younger J ou vas formed. with volunteer work is over 300. "We haven't had to advert- patients is often more than &) pi A farrion forming In the last four months of ise so far." a matter of giving a pill or * " the original membership. 158, for Syample, yolun, Mrs. White describes the (continued on page 12) y - Fe : New Idea's NEW "Hay Thing "H&R Block has seventeen os £37 2 OLS EE > reasons why 7 / § HRM vou should 3 : let them prepare your] | a8 1 5 The versatile machine | Income tax return. i that-does more than Reason Number Fourteen: te re LA) 5 . N any mower-conditioner. | + sr siock people are human and once 2 : o in a great while they may make an error. 3 { Bll inert ew ann ora oncad, vewanie [f - But f that error medris you have to pay : S at works as a mower, a additiona you pay only the tax. © +. ' J conditi y : ; LBB Irs nt ios Feiss 99. agier, or To H & R Block pays any interest and penalty. i conditions no other tyme of machine can handle. It won't plug or They stand behind their work. 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