Archived Grants
Bellevue Hospital Center
To train volunteers to support the Health Education and Literacy for Parents project, which provides a broad range of health information to families in pediatric waiting areas.
Beth Israel Medical Center
To establish a volunteer interpreter program for patients in the general medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatric practices at the Philips Ambulatory Care Center.
Harlem Hospital Center
To continue a successful volunteer program in which college students serve as peer-mentors to adolescent girls who have suffered childhood sexual abuse and to expand its focus to include the girls' academic performance and competency skills.
Lutheran Medical Center
To continue the Trauma Patient and Family Support Program, which serves individuals in need of crisis intervention support in the evening and at night, and to train additional volunteers to work with patients and families in the on-call lay chaplain program, emergency department, and surgical liaison program.
New York Hospital Queens
To enhance training for emergency room volunteers and to create a crisis-response team to provide uninterrupted support for emergency department staff and patients both day-to-day and under extraordinary circumstances.
New York Methodist Hospital
To expand to three additional inpatient units a program in which trained volunteers provide support and education to family caregivers.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Campus
To create a Sparks of Life program, in which volunteers engage hospitalized geriatric and psychiatric patients in recreational activities to promote cognitive, emotional, and socialization skills.
NYU Downtown Hospital
To continue to recruit and train volunteers for the Disaster Response Volunteer Corps, which provides support to staff and patients in the event of a disaster.
St. John's Episcopal Hospital, South Shore
To develop a volunteer component of the hospital's Project Liberty Program, which provides outreach, crisis counseling, and stress debriefing services to those affected by the World Trade Center and Flight 587 disasters.
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, St. John's Queens Hospital
To recruit additional volunteers for the guest relations program in the hospital's expanding surgery service, to train these volunteers to meet the needs of the hospital's culturally diverse patient population, and to develop a tool to evaluate patient satisfaction.
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, St. Mary's Hospital
To establish a volunteer liaison program in the emergency department to provide support to patients and assist staff with non-medical needs.
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, St. Vincent's Staten Island
To create the Hospital Emergency Liaison Program, which will recruit and train volunteers to provide support for emergency department patients and staff and special assistance in the event of a disaster.
Staten Island University Hospital
To establish the Volunteer Language Assistance Program, which uses bilingual volunteers to raise cultural awareness and foster better communication between patients with limited English proficiency and hospital staff.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center/University Hospital of Brooklyn
To develop the Junior Volunteer Welcome Center, where high school students will provide assistance to patients; in preparation, students will participate in a 12-month customer service training program and rotate through a wide range of hospital departments.
Project DOCC
To refine and evaluate the current parent-led program for educating pediatricians-in-training about the special needs of chronically ill children, and to develop, test, and launch a similar program for physicians-in-training working with older adult patients.
