• Primary responsibility would be Patient Discharges. This process involves transporting patients by wheelchair from inpatient units to several discharge areas in the hospital: 5th Ave Lobby, R Ground Patient Lounge, N1 Discharge Area, NLL Discharge area, D Lobby Discharge Area (Surgi Valet) area and, occasionally, E and C Lobby areas.
• Assist Transport staff with transports that require more than one transporter because of the transport vehicle (bed, bariatric bed, etc.) or because there are patient belongings to accompany patient. Volunteers will be asked to assist with the actual transport, but are not permitted to assist nursing or transport staff with the “hands on” process of moving patients from bed to stretcher, etc.
• May also be asked to assist with “staging” transport equipment (wheelchairs, stretchers) by delivering this equipment to various areas in the hospital. This would also include occasionally taking calls to pick up or deliver beds, stretchers and wheelchairs from various areas of the hospital.
Volunteers should be:
• Able to push patients on wheelchairs and assist Transporters with transporting patients on beds.
• Able to be on your feet and walking most of work time.
Volunteers are required to obtain PA criminal background clearance, child abuse clearance, FBI background clearance.
Please contact volunteerservices2@towerhealth.org for more information.
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