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Volunteering at UAMS Medical Center

The mission of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Volunteer Services is to uphold the greater UAMS mission and vision to teach, heal, search and serve through compassionate and informed volunteer services.

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Thank you for your interest in joining UAMS Health as a volunteer or community partner.

Volunteer Now

Volunteers play an important and intricate role on the UAMS campus by helping enrich patients’ and their families’ experiences while being treated at UAMS.

As UAMS continues to expand its volunteer community, the Volunteer Services is committed to the following characteristics of its volunteers:

  • UAMS volunteers have the necessary competencies and professionalism to play an intricate role in the field of health care.
    • UAMS volunteers are committed to upholding the rights of the patient while being a vital asset to the staff and faculty of UAMS.
  • UAMS volunteers maintain privacy and safety standards for the benefit of the University Hospital campus.
  • UAMS volunteers feel a calling or are drawn to serve with compassion, kindness, sincerity and friendliness, and without necessity of compensation, pay or other physical benefit.
  • UAMS volunteers stay abreast of hospital policies, changes or informative notices, while continuing to be a voice for positive change and offering invaluable ideas for the UAMS of tomorrow.

Patient and Family Resource Center

The Office of Volunteer Engagement at UAMS Health is proud to provide a create a place that promotes healing, learning, and active patient and family participation in the healing process.

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Where Can You Serve?

Volunteers are rewarded by relationships with patients, faculty, staff, and fellow volunteers. By giving their time, volunteers receive valuable leadership skills, patient care skills, and various other abilities paramount in the life of health care.

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Inpatient Unit Support

Volunteers can assist with a variety of tasks including answering call lights, visiting with patients, running errands for nursing staff, and more.

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Gift Shop

Volunteers assist gift shop staff and customers with restocking, wrapping, pricing items, and cashier duties. All proceeds go to the UAMS Auxiliary.

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Family Resource Center

Volunteers serve as concierges, greeting patients and family members, providing information about hospital and city resources, and more.

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Summer Volunteers

Students 18 and over can volunteer with us during their summer break. Applications must be submitted by May 15.

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NICU

Volunteers are able to hold stable babies, read to, or talk to babies, and provide therapeutic touch.

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HEALERS Teen Program

If you are a rising junior or senior in high school, you are welcome to apply for our HEALERS program.

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