Volunteering at Mayo Clinic in Arizona

Volunteers serve patients with a personal touch

Volunteers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona serve patients and visitors with a personal touch. Their work helps patient feel more comfortable, helps Mayo carry out its mission and is a source of pride, enjoyment, challenge and good feelings for the volunteer. Like everyone at Mayo Clinic, our primary concern is for patients' well-being, comfort and security.

Volunteers contribute to Mayo's mission in numerous ways. Volunteers help reassure anxious visitors, support a caring but busy professional staff, and help ensure the individual attention that Mayo patients have come to expect.

Volunteer Facts

Our volunteers are drawn from all occupations and backgrounds from throughout the world. Approximately 60 percent are women and 40 percent are men. Some interesting facts about Mayo volunteers include:

• Ages of our volunteers range from 15 years to 96 years.
• Some of our volunteers are college students.
• Forty-six volunteers are husband-and-wife teams.
• The No.1 reason why volunteers give their time and efforts is gratitude for services received at Mayo Clinic.
• Our volunteers are interesting and enthusiastic individuals.
• In 2008, our volunteers contributed 150,000 hours in over 100 service areas.

How Can I Get Involved?

For more details about volunteering at Mayo Clinic, see:

• Volunteer opportunities
• Training and requirements
• Becoming a volunteer
• High School Student Summer Program

Note

• We are not accepting applications for our adult volunteer program until February 2010.
• Applications for the high school student summer program will be accepted from Jan. 1 through Feb. 26, 2010.