After making 10,000 hats for newborns, a volunteer lays down her knitting needles
Having retired, volunteer Barbara Eusanio reflects on the comfort she brought to thousands of infants and parents.
From the pain of Palliative Care to the joy of volunteering
After the death of her partner in Palliative Care, Kate Bremner felt that becoming a volunteer was the ideal way to thank the JGH for its first-rate care.
Volunteer’s compassion and patience lend support to youngsters in Child Psychiatry
Like many of the JGH’s younger volunteers, Alexandra Taverna takes pride in giving of herself to benefit others.
Determination to give of herself spurs Naomi Weiss to keep volunteering at age 96
At 96, Naomi Weiss has been volunteering for over 33 years in a psychosocial group at the JGH’s Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry. She has loved giving of herself, ever since she began volunteering as a teenager at a hospital in Israel.
Being a hospital rabbi “is not a job, it’s a way of life”
Special visits and entertainment to boost morale are among the events that Rabbi Barak Nissim Hetsroni, the hospital’s Chaplain and Spiritual Advisor, is bringing to increasing numbers of patients throughout the JGH.
Student volunteers embrace emotional intensity of Intensive Care
A McGill University psychology student who volunteered in the JGH’s Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit was introduced to a patient who ended up making a lasting impression on her.