Volunteering
 A few hours of your time can make a positive difference in someone’s life. Volunteering to help others is not only a wonderful way to support your community, it also promotes wellness and an active lifestyle. Morton Plant Mease Volunteer Services offers many worthwhile and rewarding volunteer assignments, both inside the healthcare setting and out in the community. Volunteers use their special skills, learn new skills, meet new people and maintain an active lifestyle!
For specific hospital volunteering opportunities or to help with one of our community outreach programs, call (727) 734-6262, or for more detailed information, click on the links below.
How We Serve The Community
Our 2,000+ volunteers go above and beyond when it comes to lending a helping hand:
- More than 1,600 free rides are provided each month to and from medical appointments through our van transportation services: CareLift, CareVan and HealthRide.
- Our Phone Care Volunteers provide daily communication to community members enrolled in our free telephone reassurance program.
- Our Medicare Counseling program assists more than 200 individuals each year.
- Our Friend-to-Friend Grocery and Pharmacy Shopping service has helped more than 35 community members this year alone!
- Camp Living Springs, a three-day retreat for cancer patients designed to promote healing, relaxation and to nurture the spirit, accommodates 55 campers each event!
Special thanks to the Auxiliary of Mease Health Care, Morton Plant Caring Partners and Morton Plant North Bay Caring Partners for bringing these award-winning and extraordinary services to our community.
 Volunteering is a Healthy Habit…
A University of Michigan study shows that men who volunteer at least once each week live longer than men who do not. Individuals with heart problems who volunteer have reduced cholesterol levels, and they found that “volunteering is a way of connecting with people, and those with social contacts live longer than those who are more isolated.”
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