AtlantiCare Thanks Volunteers During Volunteer Appreciation Dinner

More than 200 people attended AtlantiCare’s annual Adult Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Atlantic City Country Club April 14. The dinner was one way AtlantiCare recognized volunteers during National Volunteer Appreciation Week, April 12-18.
Among volunteers who were recognized at the dinner were:
•Marilynn Wimberg, of Ventnor, ARMC City Campus Auxiliary member, the ARMC volunteer who has been volunteering the longest (Wimberg started in 1965.)
•Audrey Fisher, of Egg Harbor Township, ARMC Atlantic City Campus Auxiliary president, a volunteer since 1974
•Beatrice Leek, of Egg Harbor City, a volunteer since 1974
•Claire Schroer, of Egg Harbor City, ARMC Mainland Campus Auxiliary member, a volunteer since 1974
•Gladys McCardle, of Linwood, the longest serving AtlantiCare Hospice and Palliative Care volunteer (McCardle started in 1994.)
•Helen Riso, of Absecon, who recently celebrated her 96th birthday, started volunteering in the gift shop in 1994
•Phyllis Previti, of Ventnor, knitted 584 hats for ARMC Center for Childbirth newborns in 2014
•Earl Winterbottom, of Hammonton; Jessica Brown-Korsah, of Atlantic City; and Carol Weisenberg, of Mays Landing, the newest Hospice volunteers
•James Pico, of Galloway, the newest ARMC volunteer – volunteering in the ARMC Mainland Campus Emergency Department
AtlantiCare’s nearly 400 adult volunteers assist patients and staff throughout AtlantiCare in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, serving in various areas of AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, including the Joint, Spine and Heart institutes; Emergency and Radiology departments; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Roger B. Hansen Center for Childbirth; Hospice and Palliative Care program; Information Desk; and throughout the hospital by performing in AtlantiCare’s Creative Arts and Healing Program. Volunteers also include more than 148 auxiliary members, as well as pastoral counselors and business office assistants. AtlantiCare has approximately 100 junior volunteers, ages 14 to 17. It recognizes them with a summer luncheon. Volunteers serve in 29 departments throughout AtlantiCare.
In 2014 the adult volunteers donated more than 37,000 hours of service within AtlantiCare. This does not include the hours knitters, crocheters, and Hearts, Hands, and Hospice volunteers contribute creating blankets and other items from their homes. In addition, junior volunteers donated 3,903 hours of service this past summer.
To volunteer, or for more information about AtlantiCare’s Volunteer Services, call the AtlantiCare Access Center at 888-569-1000, visit atlanticare.org, or find AtlantiCare on Facebook.