Thank you for your interest in becoming a Day Kimball Healthcare volunteer. Each of our volunteers helps us achieve the mission, vision, and values of Day Kimball Healthcare. Volunteers make an impact each day by providing invaluable services to our patients, staff, and visitors that we would not otherwise be able to provide. If you are interested in helping serve our patients, staff, and visitors, pursuing personal growth, continuing a lifetime of learning, exploring career opportunities, or returning a kindness shown to you while you were a patient, Day Kimball Healthcare has a unique variety of volunteer opportunities to match your interests.
Making a real difference
Helping your community hospital and your neighbors
Opportunities to meet new people
Using your skills to help others
Learn new skills
Personal satisfaction
Recognition events
Sense of pride and accomplishment
Day Kimball’s Hospital Volunteer Program consists of more than 100 caring individuals who share their talents and time with the patients and staff of Day Kimball Hospital. Our volunteers are warm-hearted individuals, perhaps retired, who enjoy the spirit and companionship of helping in the hospital setting, and are proud of their contribution to ensuring Day Kimball’s continued high-quality healthcare.
Our volunteers assist in many areas, performing a variety of valuable tasks. Opportunities available include:
Volunteer shifts are typically 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. or 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, but all individuals with the time and desire to give of themselves are welcome to contact us regarding other arrangements. Interested hospital volunteers must be willing to commit to a minimum of 100 hours.
PLEASE NOTE: Day Kimball Healthcare does not provide court-ordered community service opportunities.
Hospice Volunteers are special individuals who assist a trusted and caring team working with the terminally ill and those who love them. These loving and compassionate individuals provide assistance during times of crisis, bereavement support to family members, and a shoulder to lean on when times are tough.
Hospice and Palliative Care of Northeastern Connecticut is a program of Day Kimball Healthcare. Hospice volunteers are given extensive training in preparation for providing vital moral support and comfort to terminally ill patients and their families.
Hospice volunteers support patients and their families by providing:
All volunteers must successfully complete the following steps:
Please return your completed Application and Reference Forms to:
Day Kimball Healthcare
Volunteer Services
320 Pomfret Street
Putnam, CT 06260
For more information:
E-mail Janet Johnson, Volunteer Services Coordinator, at jjohnson@cp55586.com or call
(860) 928-6541 ext. 7144 or ext. 2279
Junior Volunteers at Day Kimball Hospital must be mature, independent, conscientious, and dependable. They must be good listeners and good communicators, and they must follow directions well.
Junior Volunteer Candidates Must:
Mandatory Training
The 8-hour training, held at DKH, will allow you to:
The Role of a Junior Volunteer
Junior Volunteers have many roles and are of great assistance to the Day Kimball staff. Volunteers may be asked to perform any of the following tasks:
Junior Volunteers Can Learn About Careers in Healthcare
Please return your completed Application Packet by March 15, 2024 to:
Day Kimball Healthcare
Volunteer Services
320 Pomfret Street
Putnam, CT 06260
For more information:
E-mail Janet Johnson, Volunteer Services Coordinator, at jjohnson@cp55586.com or call
(860) 928-7141