California Pacific Medical Center offers a wide array of volunteer opportunities at various locations on weekdays, weekends, and evenings. We especially need help during the day on weekdays.

Important: Volunteering does not include direct patient care, shadowing of nurses, doctors, or techs.

Here are some of the opportunities available at CPMC:

• Administrative and Clerical — Provide important administrative support to the hospital while learning valuable skills. A variety of departments and offices offer diverse tasks ranging from mailing and filing projects to complex computer data entry. (VNC/MBC/Davies/PHOC)
• Ambulatory Surgery Unit — Work in a busy clinical unit by assisting nurses preparing patients for surgery and post-surgery discharge. Serve as an important liaison between surgery and waiting families. (VNC/MBC/PHOC)
• Breast Health Center — Welcome and help patients feel at ease. Escort patients and help them prepare for their procedures. (PHOC)
• Cancer Patient Liaison — Play a supportive role by providing care to patients who are very ill, and support to their families. (PHOC)
• Coming Home Hospice — Play a supportive role by providing care to patients and families at the end of life. Meet and greet family members and answer phones. Spend time with patients. (CHH / Davies)
• Dietary Department — Have meaningful one-on-one interaction with patients through helping with menu selections. Provide support to nutritional staff. (VNC)
• Elder Care Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) — seeks to decrease confusion and subsequent loss of independence in older patients in an acute care setting. (VNC/MBC).
• Emergency Department — Be part of the exciting ED team by assisting staff with non-clinical duties in the waiting room and patient treatment area. Tasks include making gurneys, restocking supply carts, comforting families, and providing patient advocacy. (VNC/MBC/Davies).

• Eucharistic Ministers (VNC/MBC/Davies)

• Information Desk — Direct patients and visitors to locations throughout medical center. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, patience and acceptance of diversity are required. (VNC/PHOC)
• NICU – Baby Cuddler program (VNC)
• Novack Child Life Services — Child Life Specialists are trained child development professionals who work with children and families to help them cope with the potential stressors associated with their hospitalization and illness. (VNC)
• Nuclear Medicine — Learn about cutting-edge medical imaging technology through greeting and escorting patients and assisting with film management. Assist technologists and physicians during tests. (Davies/PHOC)
• Nursing Units — Help clinical staff and patients with non-medical needs such as visiting, reading, creating charts, running errands, writing letters. Skilled Nursing, Maternity, Cardiac Intensive Care, Intensive Care Unit, Medical Surgical Unit, Pediatrics, etc. (VNC/MBC/Davies)
• Radiology — Learn about cutting-edge medical imaging technology through greeting and escorting patients and assisting them with film management. Assist technologists and staff with administrative tasks for tests. (VNC/MBC/Davies)
• Rehabilitation Therapy — Learn about rehabilitation by observing patients undergoing physical and occupational therapy. (Van Ness/Davies)
• Women's Health Resource Center — Teach internet skills to women over the age of 60 or assist women undergoing cancer treatment with manicures and beauty “makeovers.” (PHOC)

For further information, please contact cpmcvolunteer@sutterhealth.org.