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‘Starved For Affection’
Volunteers Sought For Hospital, Oak View Center
Some residents need so
meone to write letters for them.,
Others need their clothing
mended. But most, more than
anything else, need someone to
spend at least 30 minutes a
week talking with them.
That's wiy a concerned ef
fort is being made to organize
a volunteer group to serve both
Oak View lglrxrsmg Home and
Chattooga County Hospital.
First on the list of priorities is
a person who will volunteer his
or her time to coordinate other
volunteers. It has been dubbed,
“Operation Care."
TASKS LISTED
Lisa Hall, activities director
for Oak View, and Betty
Powell, public relations direc
tor for the hospital and nursing
home, have developed a list of
volunteer activities in consulta
tion with all departments of
both facilities.
Several volunteers now
serve both the nursing home
and hospital but the effort is
more or less unorganized and
understaffed, they indicated.
While volunteers could help
residents of the nursing home
and hospital patients when
they have to go to the X-ray
center or laboratory, many of
Oak View's residents ‘‘are just
starved to death for love and
affection,” Mrs. Powell said.
COORDINATOR
A volunteer who could in
itially spend about three hours
a day five days a week organiz
in§ and coordinating the
volunteer effort is need%d im
mediately, said Ms. Hall. The
coordinator would likely spend
less time at the facility after it
is organized than at the very
beginning, she said. At tjmes,
much of the coordination could
be done on the telephone at
home, Mrs. Powell indicated.
Plans call for the volunteers
to wear distinctive name tags
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Volunteer Aids Oak View Nursing Home Residents
and perhaps jackets or smocks
after the program is fully
organized.
“They have volunteer pro
grams at other places,” said
Mrs. Powell. ““1 (fl)n‘t see why
we can’'t have one here, too.”
TRAINING
The coordinator would
work under the direction of Ms.
Hall. All the volunteers would
be given in-service training
before they started serving the
hospital and nursing home,
Mrs. Powell added.
A volunteer coordinator
needs organizational and com
munication skills, they said,
while volunteers should
fienerally have a willin%ness to
elp and be dependable.
Volunteers could work an
afternoon, four hours, two
hours or on almost any time
schedule during the weel)(', Mrs.
Powell said.
“They will have specific
things organized for them to
do,” Ms. Hall emphasized.
“They won't have to stand
around while we try to figure
out what for them to do.”
The volunteers would be
recognized at a special
breakfast or luncheon annual
ly, Ms. hall said. The Georgia
Health Care Assn. also spon
sors a ‘“‘Volunteer of the Year”
program. ‘‘We'd like to
nominate someone for that
honor.”
MEN'’S NEEDS
Mang programs are
targeted toward women
residents of Oak View, Ms.
Hall said, because the 90-bed
facility usually averages 21
male residents. Volunteers
could take the men at Oak
View to Trade Day on
Tuesdays or Saturdays, or
fishing, for example, Ms. Hall
said. ‘“‘We need more men’s ac
tivities.”
Churches could hold their
brotherhood breakfasts or sup
pers at Oak View with the mai)e
residents, she said, or
volunteers could take the men
to local churches. ‘‘We're very
flexible.”
Some of the men and
women in the nursing home
can’t afford to pay barbers or
beauticians to lxl)x their hair at
the facility and volunteers are
needed who could help with
this cost, Mrs. Powell and Ms.
Hall said. Other residents need
help with finances to buy
clothing and some need funds
to pay for the telephones in
their room. ‘‘Maybe some local
or%anizations or clubs could
help pay for some of these
things,” Mrs. Powell
speculated.
TRANSPORTATION
Some of Oak View's
reidents need transportation to
and from doctor's appoint
ments, they noted.
Volunteer tasks could also
include writing letters for
residents who are unable to do
so themselves because of han
dicaps, sewing buttons back on
or repairing tears in clothing.
Other residents need
assistance with personal
fi'rooming. Many of the nursina%
ome residents and hospit
patients would also enjoy%av
ing someone read to them, they
said.
Other volunteer jobs would
include:
* Delivering mail inside the
hosi)ital and nursing home.
Handling some clerical
duties for both facilities.
* Transporting residents
from their rooms to the dining
hall for meals and special
activities. 3 ,
* Helping feed some pa:
tients and residents.
ENTERTAINMENT
* Helping with special ac
tivities or entertainment.
_ * Serving refreshments dur
ing activities.
* Providing ice to each resi
dent and patient room.
* Taking patients and
residents to the hospital
laboratory X-ray center.
* Spending time with room
bound residents and talking
with them at least 30 minutes
a week.
* Assisting with resident
outings.
The volunteers could also
help with swing bed patients in
the hospital, I\grs. Powell said.
Those are patients who are in
the hospital temporarily
awaiting an opening at Oak
View or other area nursing
home.
Anyone interested in
becoming volunteer coor
dinator or a volunteer may con
tact either Mrs. Powell or Ms.
Hall. In addition, Ms. Hall said
she is available to speak about
the program to area clubs,
parent-teacher groups, or other
organizations.
DUI Report
Four people were charged
with driving under the in
fluence (DUI) of intoxicants
during the past week in Chat
tooga County, according to jail
records. They were:
Jerry Warren, 42, Summer
ville Rte. 1, who was also
charged with having a
suspended license; John D.
Stanley, 22, 122 Ramey St.,
Summerville; Jol‘;nnie
Foreman, 49, Glencoe, Ala.;
and Billy Ray Hendrix, 26,
Stevenson, Ala., who was also
charged with being an habitual
violator. Hendrix was involved
in a traffic mishap near Menlo
Tuesday (see accident story).
Optimists Hear
Berry Manager
John Lipscomb, land
resources manager at Berry
College, will speak to the
Summerville-Trion Optimist
Club at noon Friday.
Lipscomb has spoken to the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club, and his presentation had
been well received, said club
member Steve Weaver.
Weaver is responsible for the
proEram.
esides his duties at Berry,
Lipscomb is also president of
the Rome Heart Xssn.
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