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Avera Queen of Peace Volunteering

Call 605-995-2466 for more information

Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteers provide a wide range of services at Avera Queen of Peace. Assignments are based upon your interests, skills and schedule and how those things mesh with our needs. Most volunteers prefer a set schedule where they work one shift a week; others prefer to be on-call to fill in as substitutes. Some jobs require movement throughout the hospital; others are more stationary. Some include patient contact; others do not.

Below is a general list of volunteer positions within the hospital. If any of these positions spark your interest, please stop in or call 605-995-2466 for more information or to sign up.

  • Blood Drives: Avera Queen of Peace hosts monthly blood drives. Volunteers help with registration and refreshments.
  • Blood Pressure Screenings: Volunteers help with blood pressure screenings in the lobby at Avera Queen of Peace monthly.
  • Gift Shop: The Gift Shop is totally staffed by volunteers.
  • Hospice: Avera Hospice provides services to terminally ill patients. Volunteers provide direct care, fundraising, and office support.
  • Hospitality House: Volunteers staff the Avera Queen of Peace Hospitality House to help guests throughout their stay.
  • Knitters: Volunteers knit stocking caps for babies born in our Maternal Care Unit.
  • Information Desk: Volunteers staff the information desks to help visitors and patients with directions, room numbers, and other questions.
  • Mail Delivery: Volunteers sort and deliver mail to patient’s rooms.
    Menu Service: Volunteers assist Food and Nutrition Services with distribution and collection of daily patient menus.
  • Miscellaneous: Some departments request office or other miscellaneous support from volunteers. Examples of this are helping central stores with tagging supplies, stuffing envelopes, clipping newspaper articles for public relations, helping with fundraising events and various duties in the business ofice and health information.
  • Chaplaincy: Volunteers help in Chaplaincy in the roles of Sacristan, Eucharistic ministers and office support.
  • Surgery Hostess: Volunteers assist families of patients in surgery and serve coffee and pastries to them. They relay information from Surgery to the families.
  • Tray Favor Group: This group meets before all major holidays to make tray favors to be used on patient meal trays.

Current Openings include:

  • Gift Shop: Tuesday, 4-6:30, Friday 9-12:30 and 12:30-4
  • Foot Care Clinic: 1 afternoon per month, registering patients, generally the last Thursday of the month.
  • Home Health/Hospice: office help needed one half day per week. Mostly filing, some help with projects.
  • Mail: patient mail delivery on Monday morning

If you are interested in volunteering at Avera Queen of Peace, please contact Kathy Hartung Stiles at 605-995-2466 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.