Kno-Wal-Lin and Mid-Coast Mental Healthhave launched a Volunteer Friends Program to provide supportive friendships to help combat the effects of loneliness, low self-esteem and isolation. Learn more

Throughout Pen Bay Healthcare, our wonderful volunteers help us provide the best care to our patients, residents and clients as well as to support staff at our facilities.

Volunteering is easy: It can be as simple as reading a book to an interested listener.

Volunteering is fun: You can play Bingo or help run a birthday party.

Volunteering is important: You can help escort a patient in the hospital.

Volunteering is enriching: It offers an opportunity to research a new career, enjoy the satisfaction of helping others, meet new people and acquaint oneself with the community as well as keep active in retirement.

Ask any volunteer and they will tell you their lives are richer for the experience!

Volunteer Opportunities at Pen Bay Healthcare Include:

• Penobscot Bay Medical Center: Escort and Reception, the Gift Shop, Patient Visitors and Nursing Units. Learn more.
  
• Knox Center for Long-term Care: Reception/Business office assistance; Employee Lunch Cart Staff; Activities Aid, including picnics, birthday parties, group exercise and Bingo. Learn more.
  
• Kno-Wal-Lin Home Care and Hospice: Visit home-bound patients; assist with office work and mailings or fundraising activities; assist nurses at Flu Shot and Foot Clinics; make medication boards, disposable pads, bed jackets & walker aprons. Learn more.
  

All of us at Pen Bay Healthcare are honored to work with our more than 450 loyal, talented, and dedicated volunteers, who gave more than 20,000 service hours last year!

If you'd like to join our remarkable group of volunteers, call to find out how.

Kno-Wal-Lin Home Care and Hospice:
Joy Chamberlin, 594-9561

Knox Center for Long Term Care:
Sara Hatfield, 594-6850

Penobscot Bay Medical Center:
Judi Trenholm, 596-8553

Updated: 10/13/09