Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

Maximizing Health Care Volunteer Performance

The strategic placement of volunteers in a major medical center by health care human resources professionals can enhance the organization's performance quickly and constructively. This section explores placement opportunities for volunteers in a typical medical center setting in the areas of organizational support, patient care, business operations, and community relations. Although the focus example of this section is a medical center, it will be easy for you to understand how these placement opportunities can exist in any progressive health care organization regardless of size, from a doctor's office of a dozen employees to major health care organization consisting of a medical center, physician ...