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Houston Healthcare Honors Volunteers for Hours of Service

 

Skip Philips, Interim CEO of Houston Healthcare; Horace Woodruff, Perry Hospital Chaplain; Melissa Turrell, Director of Volunteer Services for Houston Healthcare; and members of the Perry Hospital Auxiliary with Evelyn Hughes (center), Patient Relations Representative for Perry Hospital.

 

Members of the Houston Medical Center Auxiliary with Melissa Turrell, Director of Volunteer Services

 
 
 
 
 

Houston Healthcare recently recognized the volunteers that serve through the Auxiliaries of Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital for their efforts and hours of service with a special awards luncheon at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter as part of National Volunteer Week, which was April 27 through May 3.

More than 200 adults and young people serve as volunteers through the Auxiliaries. They work in almost every area of Houston Healthcare, performing any number of tasks from working the information desk to filing records, operating the gift shops and delivering mail to patient rooms.

According to Melissa Turrell, Director of Volunteer Services for Houston Healthcare, the Auxiliaries welcomed 53 new volunteers last year in addition to the 43 youth who participated in the summer Volunteen program at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital. "All combined, our new volunteers spent 31,000 hours in our facilities this past year, resulting in a labor savings of $384,000 for the hospitals," explained Turrell.

The Auxiliaries also give back to the hospitals as well as the Houston County Volunteer Medical Clinic and other charitable organizations the money they raise through sales in the gift shops and other activities. Most recently, members of the Houston Medical Center Auxiliary donated 11 Broselow Kits, used for advanced life support for pediatric patients, to the Houston Healthcare Emergency Medical Service so that every Houston Healthcare ambulance will be stocked with a Broselow Kit. In addition, members of the Houston Medical Center Auxiliary donated $10,000 to the Houston County Volunteer Medical Clinic as well as 150 books for caregivers to the Alzheimer's Association Central Georgia Chapter. Donations from members of the Perry Hospital Auxiliary have assisted the hospital in purchasing new wheelchairs for transporting patients and in renovating patient rooms as well as purchasing new furniture for patient and family waiting areas.

Those volunteers who reached milestones in their hours served this year included:

At Perry Hospital:

  • 100 hours: Ann Joiner, Joshualyn Lovejoy, Doshia Scarborough, Richard Seagrave, and Ricky Potenziani
  • 300 hours: Jessie Cyr, Judith Rush, Mary Seagrave, Linda Seymour, and Frances Wheeler
  • 500 hours: Audrey Cason, Rosemary Potenziani, and Betty Seago
  • 1,000 hours: Louise Canady, Kathy Harold, Evelyn King, and Robbie Norsworthy
  • 3,000 hours: Liz Fauconniere
  • 3,500 hours: Agnes Mosteller
  • 4,500 hours: Pansy Gordon
  • 5,000 hours: Joyce Griffin
  • 5,500 hours: Roselle Davidson
  • 6,500 hours: Ethel Edwards

 

At Houston Medical Center:

  • 500 hours: Glenda Apaka, Gladys Barfield, Wanetia Carroll, Shirley Carter, LaDosca Crowder, Dorothy Ferrell, Joe Ann Kanaly, Vince McIntosh, Rachel Perry, Ricky Potenziani, Rosemary Potenziani, George Smith, and Pat Smith
  • 1,000 hours: Harry Atkins, Bill Parker, Joyce Savage, Jerri Kay Simmons, and Tina Sullivan
  • 1,500 hours: Lena Trussell
  • 2,000 hours: Alice Brantley, Mary Ann Edgar, Doris Holt, Ken Kagiyama, and Lorraine Moore
  • 2,500 hours: Barbara Bergman
  • 3,000 hours: Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Crowder, Juanita Graham, Tobbie Jones and Mary Sampson
  • 3,500 hours: Sue Burgess, Peggy Campbell, J.W. Cochran, and Gerald Jackson
  • 4,000 hours: Marsha Williams and Runelle Gordy
  • 4,500 hours: Connie Jackson, Johnnie Lomax and Bessie Young
  • 5,000 hours: Fannie Allen, Ed Gregory, Flo Hawkins, Virginia Jones, and Mary McNeal
  • 5,500 hours: Mary Guyer
  • 6,500 hours: Betty Hall and Tom Rudd (recognized posthumously)
  • 7,000 hours: Jerry Cochran and Donna Compher
  • 9,000 hours: Ruth Davis
  • 10,000 hours: Bernie Compher and Louise Mullis
  • 13,500 hours: Ruth Jernigan

 

For more information on becoming a volunteer for Houston Healthcare, call (478) 542-7753.