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Pediatric Outpatient Rehabilitation
(Monday-Friday, 8:00-5:30 pm)

• Equipment cleaning
• Answering telephones, filing
• Assisting with aquatic program
• Address birthday cards for patients
• Assist with “Theme Team” activities
• Assist with departmental fundraisers
• Catalog/organize books, manuals and periodicals

Child Life

• Playroom activities
• Disinfect toys and equipment
• Assist with meals
• Accompany patients to other areas of the hospital

Backus Children’s Hospital Administration
(Monday-Friday 8:00-5:00)

• Database information entry
• General clerical assistance
• Answer phone and file
• Return general interest calls/mail

Special Care & Neonatal Nursery
(24 hours, seven days a week)

• Answering telephones
• Assemble new medical records
• Answering door bell
• Organize/stock baby cribs
• Rocking and feeding babies left in nursery when moms go home.

Concierge: Third Floor
(Daily: 8:00am to 8:00pm)

• Secure patient printout from Nurses Station
• Welcome and assist visitors
• Facilitate entry into Pediatrics Unit
• Answer telephone

Reach Out and Read
(Monday, Wednesday & Thursday 9:30am-11:30am 1:30pm – 3:30pm)

• Reading in BCH outpatient clinic
• Assisting with monthly and annual reading celebrations
• Serve as role models for parents on how to read to their child

ROR is a program that promotes early literacy by bringing new books and advice about the importance of reading aloud into the pediatric exam room. Children ages 6 months to 5 years old receive a new, developmentally and culturally appropriate children's book at each well-visit.

Currently, our program goes beyond the original scope of providing children with books during each well-visit. Our ROR program celebrates the joy of reading by hosting monthly reading celebrations. We also give away over 500 new books to children at the Teddy Bear Clinic.

Our volunteers serve as role models for parents on how to read aloud to their child. Presently, volunteers read to patients in the outpatient center encouraging the love of books by showing how reading can be entertaining.

• Memorial Health Team Members
• The One Hundred
• Community volunteers
• MH Volunteen Group