Ward Services: Duties include feeding patients, transporting patients, passing drinking water and assisting the staff in ancillary duties thus allowing staff to provide direct medical bedside care.

Clerical Duties: Filing, typing, answering phones and errand services are provided to various offices and clinic areas throughtout the Medical Center.

Patient Visitor Volunteer: Patients are visited throughout their hospital stay. These volunteers also assist with hospital unit orientation, listening to patients' concerns and requests and reporting patient needs to nusing staff to ensure patients' full comfort.

Greeters Program: An information desk to provide the patients, visitors with guided information about the various locations in the Medical Center.

Resource Cart Volunteer: Hygiene items, reading material, slippers, undergarments, socks and beauty hair products are delivered to the bedside of the patient by volunteers.

Shops: The CARES hospital auxiliary operates a Gift Shop and a Health Food Store in the General Hospital. Volunteers cashier, display merchandise and assist customers. (All profits from these shops benefit CARES-sponsored child care centers.

Child Care Centers: CARES operates three child care centers Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for children of patients and visitors without charge to the families and a based fee for employees.

Clinic Volunteers: Office duties, computer data entry and other clerical duties are provided as necessary.

A Patient Crisis Fund is available through donations and is used to meet patients' non-medical financial crisis. All requests for funds are determined by the Medical Social Work Staff.

Scholarships for junior volunteers are made available each year.

Holiday Celebration for Hospitalized Patients provides donated holiday gifts to all in-house patients. Approximately 600 patients receive gifts.

Holiday Celebration for Hospitalized Patients' Families is a unique holiday program. Through their social worker, a patient with children may request gifts, food and clothing for their children.

Book and Magazine Service: Donated reading material is made available for all patient areas, in-patient and clinics.