After your MID is completed, a committee chairperson will contact you about volunteering in the areas that you have chosen and will provide a tour of the hospital, a name tag, a volunteer jacket and job training. If you only work on events outside of the hospital, you do not have to undergo training. While volunteers offer their services free of charge to WCGH, they do receive many benefits. They have a chance to learn new skills while making new friends and developing new interests. The Aid has monthly membership meetings from September - May with a featured speaker from the hospital staff.
Some meetings are purely for fun such as an auction and recognition coffee.
In May, the Aid holds its annual meeting, which is an elegant luncheon and honors volunteers with pins recognizing hours worked. Each year, members donate thousands of service hours to the hospital. Research indicates that people who volunteer live longer. Most of all, volunteers receive the satisfaction that comes from being needed and doing something worthwhile that helps others.