Volunteer Department

Walk into any Alta Bates Summit campus, and one of the very first people you’ll see is a Volunteer. Volunteers serve as assistants in the Registration Department, helping in the processing of hundreds of patients each month; Volunteers greet everyone approaching the Lobby Information Desk, answering questions, locating patients, and serving as escorts to treatment areas; Volunteers push the wheelchairs of new mothers and babies as they leave the hospital to go home; Volunteers help patients with their menus, explain television choices and sooth relatives waiting in the Emergency Rooms.

Volunteers staff three Family Resource Centers, providing calm and quiet oases of comfort for families of surgical patients. Volunteers also help visitors select perfect gifts from our beautiful Gift Shops; cuddle newborns in the NICU; run errands for nursing units to the lab and medical records and render other needed assistance for both patients and staff. Behind the scenes, a Special Projects Volunteer group enjoy each other’s company while putting together thousands of patient charts; and taking care of departmental requests for assistance with one-time or continuing events and ad hoc requests. There are more than forty services to choose from.

To qualify for the Volunteer Program all Students and Adults must complete the forms concerning Background Checks. Upon our receipt of your completed application form, you will receive e-mail instructions on accessing the mandatory Corporate Screening Process. This process is done online at the cost of $9.50 by credit card and is non-refundable.

• Become a Collegiate Volunteer
• Become an Adult Volunteer

Become a Collegiate Volunteer

• Collegiate is defined as those who are Juniors or Seniors in college or in graduate programs.
• The Career explorers are also part of the Collegiate Program if planning on returning to college or graduate programs.
• We receive the first thirty five applications beginning at 9:00 a.m. on the first and third Friday of each month.
• The application program automatically closes after the initial thirty five applications are received.
• You will receive an e-mail confirmation when your application is received. You will then receive instructions on how to access and complete the Corporate Screening process and payment. Corporate Screening must be completed within 72 hours or your application will be invalidated.
• You will know that the application program is closed if:
  • You do not see the application available when clicking on the Online Collegiate Volunteer Application Link
  • Your application does not go through
  • You see the following message when you click on the link: The application is now closed.
• Do not default to the Adult application. It will automatically be deleted.

The Collegiate/ Career Explorers Volunteer commitment requires 200 hours of service annually.

Please Note: Students and Career Explorers exclusively reap the benefits of programs designed specifically around the concept of staff and volunteer customer service and teamwork.

To start the application process, just click on the link below on the first or third Friday of the month at 9:00am and fill out our online application:

Online Collegiate Volunteer Application

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Become an Adult Volunteer

• Just click on the link below and fill out our online application to begin the process of becoming an Adult Volunteer.
• You will receive an e-mail confirmation when your application is received. You will then receive instructions on how to access and complete the Corporate Screening process and payment. Corporate Screening must be completed within 72 hours or your application will be invalidated.

Online Adult Volunteer Application

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