Neighborhood Health Clinic Volunteer Application

The Neighborhood Health Clinic is a non-profit healthcare facility that delivers quality medical care to low-income working but uninsured Collier County adults using a volunteer professional staff.

Physicians and nurses volunteer their time during clinic sessions. Non-medical volunteers perform a variety of tasks including answering phones, data entry, assessing financial eligibility, courier services, translation, transcription, etc.

Help Wanted – Current Available Positions

Individuals who have the desire to have a tremendous positive impact on the health of our working, uninsured patients are encouraged to apply.

Below is a list of current volunteer positions:

• Nurses
• Interpreters
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Quit Smoking Now
• Komen Race for the Cure Team Captain

Eileen Iaizzo, Volunteer Coordinator

Eileen Iaizzo has been volunteering at the Neighborhood Health Clinic since 2001. She started at the Clinic working with the Pharmacy Patient Assistance program applying for patients’ medications through the Pharmaceutical Companies. In 2005 she became the Volunteer Coordinator.

“Volunteering at the Clinic has given me the opportunity to be part of a neighborhood of people helping people.”

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Physicians

Dr. Jones

Physicians with active Florida Licenses are invited join us to enhance our ability to deliver quality health care with compassion and respect to Collier County’s adult, low-income population.

The Clinic staff and its medical and non-medical volunteers want this to be a meaningful experience for you. We offer you the following support to make that happen:

• Sovereign Immunity from malpractice issues
• Patient relationship remains with the Clinic
• Hours and days woven around your other schedules
• Primary and Specialty Clinics
• To nurture our nurturers, food and beverages are provided at every clinic session. Meals are generously donated by local restaurants, local organizations and groups as well as individuals.

Please be prepared to provide copies of all appropriate professional licenses.

If you have any questions please contact the Clinic’s Co-Founder, Nancy Lascheid at 239.260.2085.

Nurses

Susan Jones

We have a congenial atmosphere of medical and non-medical volunteers. Our nurses are usually scheduled for two Clinic sessions each month. We work around your availability.

If you are actively licensed, you can help us serve the patients in so many ways. Unlicensed nurses review and maintain patient charts and keep the examination rooms stocked and ready.

To make your experience with us as productive as possible, please note:

• The Clinic’s medical volunteers are covered from malpractice issues by Sovereign Immunity
• We practice traditional medicine, nurses are paired with doctors on a clinic-by-clinic basis and work with them in traditional medical protocol
• Our Clinic routinely provides the spectrum of activity from internal and family medicine, subspecialty practice, urgent and emergency care
• Our nurses are scheduled on a rotating monthly basis, usually participating in two clinics each month
• Wonderful opportunities for CEUs
• To nurture our nurturers, food and beverages are provided at every clinic session. Meals are generously donated by local restaurants, local organizations and groups as well as individuals.

Please be prepared to provide copies of all appropriate professional licenses.

If you have questions please contact our Nurse Coordinator, Ann Crews, at 239.260.2078.

Non-Medical

Being a non-medical volunteer at the Neighborhood Health Clinic will mean you are part of a team, whose every effort whether filing, working at the computer, or making phone calls is directed at patient care.

Non-Medical Volunteer Opportunities include:

• Computer – Data Entry, Word Processing
• Courier – Run errands.
• Fundraising - Assist Development Director with special events and other various tasks.
• Kitchen Host/Hostess – Welcome and serve donated meals to the volunteers during Clinic hours.  (You are not responsible for preparing the meal )
• Meal Preparation – Prepare / donate volunteer’s meals.
• Intake Counselors – Interview potential patients to determine eligibility for Clinic services.
• Interpreters – Assist Intake Counselors and medical staff with patients
• Medical Services Support – Keep exam rooms supplied, conduct patient surveys, work in lab, review charts and more.
• Office – Answer phones, prepare charts, file medical reports and other clerical tasks.
• Pharmacy – Sort, stock and rotate inventory.  Use computer program for Patient Assistance Program applications, data input for reports, print labels.
• Transcribers – Transcribe and type physician’s notes
• Specialty Programs – selecting, interviewing, and enrolling the appropriate patients, entering data on the participant’s progress, calling to confirm attendance, and in general working with the two program coordinators to insure that the program runs smoothly and thereby provides the maximum benefit to our patients.

Please be prepared to provide copies your driver’s license and social security card.

Depending on the position, some volunteers may be required by the Florida Department of Health to be finger printed.

If you have any questions please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Eileen Iaizzo, at 239.260.2087.