Loyola Medicine Honors Volunteers During National Volunteer Week 2019
April 9, 2019Categories: Loyola Medicine
MAYWOOD, IL – Herb Massin has spent nearly 1,000 hours volunteering at Loyola University Medical Center, helping patients from infancy to the final hours of life.
Loyola Medicine will honor Mr. Massin during National Volunteer Week April 7-13, 2019.
Mr. Massin, 80, of LaGrange Park, Illinois, is a former Army artillery captain and retired nuclear engineer. During the past five years, he has spent 985 hours volunteering in the pediatrics unit and as a compassionate companion in the No One Dies Alone program.
"I'm a guy off the street who cares," he said.
During the 2018 fiscal year, 270 volunteers spent 16,414 hours volunteering at Loyola University Medical Center and outpatient sites. Volunteers:
- Visit with patients to help ease wait times and the hospital experience
- Support children's activities in the pediatrics unit
- Greet and assist visitors at information desks and in clinical departments
- Provide pet therapy to patients
- Comfort patients on hospital floors and in the Emergency Department
- Support families in surgical waiting rooms
- Provide spiritual comfort by serving as Eucharistic Ministers
- Cuddle and sooth premies in the neonatal intensive care unit
- Comfort patients as No One Dies Alone compassionate companions
"We honor Herb and all of our volunteers" said Sara Schad, manager of patient and volunteer engagement at Loyola Medicine. "They are a vital link in the chain of service and caring."
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
Established in 1961, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park that includes the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care, Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center, acute rehabilitation, a transitional care center, childcare center and fitness center. Founded in 1919, MacNeal Hospital is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services and a 68-bed behavioral health program.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).