Aspirus St. Luke's and Lake View Volunteers
At Aspirus St. Luke's and Lake View, we offer several opportunities for caring volunteers to support our staff. We match your special skills, interests and time commitments with our needs. You may choose to work directly with patients, families and visitors, or in an ongoing role in one of our departments. We provide excellent training to ensure a high-quality experience for you and our patients.
Become a Volunteer
All potential Aspirus St. Luke's volunteers must first complete an application process. Click below to open an application form appropriate to you:
Volunteer Application Volunteer Handbook
Volunteer Opportunities
Your special skills, interests and time commitment are matched with the needs of Aspirus St. Luke's. You may work with patients, families and visitors, or assist staff in a hospital department or clinic. This list represents many of our volunteer positions. It is not inclusive of all volunteer opportunities. Aspirus St. Luke's has many volunteer opportunities available. Call Volunteer Services at 218.249.5344 for more information and work with us to put the patient above all else.
Breast Center Reception Desk
Greet patients and communicate information to them. Call patients to remind them of appointments.
Clerical Assistance
Perform clerical duties as needed in a specific department or clinic. Help with office work and duties as requested by clinic staff.
Emergency Department
Provide volunteer assistance in clerical, support services, and patient care (i.e., clean rooms after patient discharge, restock blanket warmer, escort visitors.)
Hospital Deliveries
Deliver books, magazines and patient comment cards to patient care and waiting areas. Project deliveries to departments and employees.
Information Desk
Greet and direct visitors. Respond to requests for information.
Intensive Care Waiting Area (ICU)
Greet visitors, supply information about the ICU and waiting area. Provide a caring ear for family and friends of patients in ICU. Keep waiting area presentable (coffee area, magazines, etc.).
Laboratory-Pathology
Organize supply shelves. Pull slides when requested, file slides, assist staff.
Mail Messenger
Sort and deliver mail to hospital departments/adjacent clinics and pick up out-going mail.
Marketplace
Assist customers, ring up cash, credit, and payroll deduction sales of food, beverages and merchandise. Clean and stock shelves and coolers, mark merchandise, open and close marketplace.
Pharmacy
File orders, photocopy, transfer labels, file records, box records, clean shelves.
Special Projects
Group work: Complete special projects—mailings, packet building, inventory supplies, deliveries.
Surgical & Procedural Care
Greet patients as they arrive for surgery/procedures, enter patient arrival time , escort families to patient bedside and doctor consultation rooms, assemble patient charts, answer phones, direct or escort families and visitors to hospital locations.
Contact Volunteer Services (3 East)
Program Administrator - Volunteers
Mary Matlack
218.249.5343
Mary.Matlack@aspirus.org
Volunteer Services and Marketplace- Supervisor
Liz Abrahamson
218.249.5344
Elizabeth.Abrahamson@aspirus.org
Aspirus St. Luke's Hospital
915 East First Street
Duluth, MN 55805