FROM LORI KABAT DATED: 9-29-22
All of our volunteers should go through an annual training. Given that some of your team went through new volunteer orientation and others went through training with Jeff early this year, most will not need to repeat that training again in October. For those that weren't present for the training with Jeff or new to EM, we can set up another training if they can't make it to either of those upcoming training events. Let me know if you have any that fall into that aforementioned category.
Thank You,
Derek Shaw | Director – Volunteer Services & Guest Relations
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital – Mt. Vernon
Phone: 618-899-1031
Derek.Shaw@ssmhealth.com
April 29, 2022
Hello Everyone,
After meeting with Jeff, Fr Nick, and Deacon Steve, it was decided that we are going to continue to schedule our volunteers as we have in the past...whatever days work best for your personal schedules.
We may not be able to fill every day but we will do the best we can with the amount of volunteers that we have.
If everyone could let me know the days that they are available and how many days you are willing to volunteer I will make the schedule.
I would appreciate if you could do this ASAP so that we can maybe have a schedule ready for May.
I would also like to remind everyone that you will need to have a flu and Covid vaccine OR a waiver on file with the hospital.
We will also need to do another orientation with Deacon Steve and Jeff.
There will be more info on that at a later date.
And of course, masks are required throughout the hospital.
Thank you so much for being patient and for volunteering your time. I will get a schedule to you as soon as I can.
Lori
March 14, 2022
Hello,
If I could ask you all, please let me know if you are still interested in the hospital ministry.
The Pastoral Care office is very excited to have us back in the hospital, so I need to know as soon as possible whom to schedule in the very near future.
I would appreciate the response either way.
If circumstances do not allow you to serve in this capacity any more, we completely understand and thank you for the time that you have served the sick at the hospital.
May God bless you all.
Lori Kabat
March 9, 2022
Hello Everyone,
I hope this finds you all well and experiencing a prayerful and spiritual Lenten Season. I am once again reaching out to say that the Pastoral Care office at the hospital would very much appreciate the return of the Hospital Ministry and for our volunteers to once again bring the Body of Christ to the sick.
As of now, the goggle mandate has been lifted so I think that it would be very much like it was pre-pandemic, requiring only masks be worn. Jeff or Kaycee, if one of you could please confirm that and maybe anything else we would need to know, I would appreciate it very much.
Just to be clear, we only visit the patients in regular rooms, no isolation and no Covid rooms. It has also been suggested that, if you are not comfortable visiting the patients’ rooms, maybe you would be willing to offer spiritual communion. The hospital does require all volunteers to have had the Covid vaccine. Please pray on this and let me know if you are willing to be a part of the Hospital Ministry once again.
I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Kaycee, Jeff, and the other ministers of the Pastoral Care office that have tirelessly and continuously tended to the spiritual needs of the sick for these past 2 years. We cannot thank you enough. May God reward you richly for being His hands and feet on this earth.
Peace in Christ,
Lori
"Christ has no body on earth but ours, no hands, but ours, no feet, but ours.
Ours are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ look out upon the world.
Ours are the feet with which He goes about doing good.
Ours are the hands with which He blesses His people."
St Teresa of Avila