2024 Funded Micro Grant
Comfort Care for Patients
Team: Kris Hakanson, Alivia Peay, Chloe O’Baker, Anne Netting, Suburban Hospital Volunteers
Department of Volunteer Services
Patients sometimes find themselves in the hospital unexpectedly, or without anyone to bring them items they need. When much of a hospital stay is “hurry up and wait,” lack of access to basic self-care or stress relief items can not only be uncomfortable but over time be immensely stressful and diminishing to one’s feeling of self-worth.
Volunteers at Suburban Hospital offer a comfort cart for these patients. With funds from the IHM microgrant, the Volunteer Services team hoped to expand the variability and availability of comfort cart items such as chapstick, word searches, or books.