Volunteer with New Orleans East Hospital
Our volunteers are caring, dedicated, and committed to helping others by giving their time and sharing their talents. Our staff depends on and appreciates the many contributions our volunteers make in creating quality experiences for our patients and visitors.
If you would like to connect to your community, create new relationships, and add meaning to your life, consider becoming a hospital volunteer.
Volunteer tasks
Volunteers have the opportunity to serve in multiple capacities with us.
Guest relations
Family liaisons: Volunteers serve as family liaisons in Emergency, Intensive Care, and other family waiting areas in the hospital by offering a comforting environment for families waiting for news about their loved one. They provide reading materials and information about the hospital and surrounding area while keeping visitors informed of a patient’s progress.
Information desk: For those who enjoy high public interaction, the hospital’s information desks are an ideal location. These volunteers direct visitors throughout the facility, answer phones, give visitors patients’ room numbers and help locate doctors’ offices. The volunteers also receive flowers, gifts, and mail for patients.
Ambassadors/greeters: Our ambassadors may be the first person a patient or family meets as they enter the hospital. These volunteers welcome, greet, direct, and accompany patients and guests throughout the hospital.
Patient support
- Book cart: Volunteers visit patients on hospital floors and clinical waiting areas providing reading materials from the Volunteer Services Library.
- Chaplaincy: The Chaplains serve multiple needs. Eucharistic ministry volunteers/Chaplaincy brings communion to those who wish to receive the sacrament. Other Chaplains provide support, comfort, and counseling to patients, their families, and guests.
Staff support
Administrative: Volunteers assist the hospital’s administrative staff with answering phones, copying, filing, data entry, and assembling materials. Opportunities are open to volunteers who would like to gain office experience. This experience is in a hospital environment which is limited to specific department volunteers who may also assist administration with various other projects.
Courier: Deliver supplies and equipment vital to patient care, restock incoming product, perform inventory counts, and assemble materials as needed in the Supply Department. Volunteers may collect and distribute wheelchairs and dozens of other in-hospital errands. Volunteers are caring, dedicated, and committed to helping others. They give of their time and share their talents.
Ready to learn more?
For more information, please contact the Volunteer Services Coordinator Monday through Friday from 8:30am-4pm at 504.592.6898.
We welcome the generosity of our community! If your group is interested in volunteering at NOEH, providing in-kind donations, or hosting a fundraiser, please reach out to our Volunteer Coordinator, Johnna Grant, at Johnna.Grant@lcmchealth.org.
Some of our greatest support comes from schools, businesses, clubs, and faith communities whose members give their time and talents, even outside the hospital, to complete projects that bring comfort and joy to our patients and their families.
The Group Volunteer Program is a great opportunity to volunteer for:
- Schools
- Corporate groups
- Clubs
- Sports teams
- Faith-based groups
Fundraising:
Fundraising initiatives are vital to providing much needed support to patients and the hospital.
Monetary donations are valued because they are used to purchase the most needed items for patients in need such as medications and medical equipment.
In-Kind Donations:
Many community members are interested in supporting NOEH, but wish to provide support through donated items instead of monetary gifts.
We enthusiastically accept donations year-round to support the needs of our patients.
You can donate these items individually or with a group (school, church, work, etc.) to complete a larger project.
Commonly needed items include: colored pencils, fine point markers, adult coloring books, card games, word search/crossword puzzle books, books, journals, magazines, grippy fuzzy socks, blankets, and travel sized toiletries.
Some of our greatest support comes from schools, businesses, clubs, and faith communities whose members give their time and talents, even outside the hospital, to complete projects that bring comfort and joy to our patients and their families.*All donated in-kind items must be new in originally packaging.