Ionia County Memorial Hospital
479 Lafayette St. Ionia, Michigan 48846
1-616-527-4200
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Volunteers and Health Care Advocates
Celebrating Volunteer Week
April 28th - May 2nd
A big thank you to all of our volunteers! You are the best!
Please come and see us on Friday, May 2nd, from
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
We'll be having cake and punch in the Dining Room
in celebration of you!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
If you have a couple of hours to spare a day. We are in need of volunteers at Ionia County Memorial Hospital to welcome patients and visitors at the hospital out-patient entrance, from 8:00 am - 12:00, Monday - Thursday.
Please contact for more information:
Mary Thacker @ 616-527-4200 ext 270 or
Remembering Bernie
ICMH Healthcare Advocates lost a good and faithful friend in February of 2008. Bernie Falsetta, past Advocate Board President and Secretary, passed away after a short illness. Bernie gave so much of her life to helping others, especially through Ionia County Memorial Hospital and Ionia Area Hospice. She will be missed very much, not only by her family, but all of us at ICMH and the Ionia community.
CONGRATULATIONS LINDA HOOD
The ICMH Healthcare Advocates at their May 10, 2007 meeting awarded Linda Hood, Ex Libris Guild, as their Member of the Year. She is pictured to the left with last year's recipient, Evelyn Walsh. Linda was the chairperson for the Garden of Gratitude at the hospital this past year and is spearheading the continuation of that program, the Memory Walk.
Also on May 10th, the new leadership of the Healthcare Advocates were ushered into their duties by COO, George Rutherford. The new board consists of those pictured:
Cindy Molter, President;
(second from left),
Nancy Haga, Treaurer;
Bernie Falsetta, Secretary and
Peg Christopher, Counselor and VP of Community Relations. Other board members include:
June Faulkner, VP Inservice
Diane Korytkowski, VP Legislation
Cheryl Emelander, VP Volunteers
Barb Sousa, Historian
Our volunteers are a very special group of men and women that work
alongside our staff and provide services to our patients. They support the hospital's vision statement "employees feel valued, physicians feel patients are getting great care, and patients feel the services and quality they receive are extraordinary". Our volunteers are such an important part of the ICMH family.
They work in the gift shop, transport patients to surgery and radiology, help with mailings and special projects, participate in mock disaster drills, provide tours of the hospital, straighten up the lobby's, help with fundraisers, help at community events and much more.
Candidates for volunteering must be mature individuals, in good health, capable of honoring patient confidentiality.
For more information on volunteering at Ionia County Memorial Hospital please contact Mary Thacker, Volunteer Coordinator, 616-527-4200, ext. 248.
The Ionia County Memorial Hospital Healthcare Advocates was first organized in 1955. Formerly known as the ICMH Auxiliary, the Advocates membership is made up of women and men dedicated providing volunteer services, financial support, and being a good will ambassador of the hospital with the community.
Over the years the Advocates (Auxiliary) has provided many, many
items and hours of their time for the patients of Ionia County Memorial Hospital. From running the Cart N' Lobby Gift Shoppe, to providing knit kittens and stickers for the children in ER, they are constantly working to help administration, staff, and patients become more comfortable.
Recently they dedicated the Garden of Gratitude, a mediation area for visitors, staff and patients, on the Lafayette St. side yard of the hospital. Bricks were sold in memory of honor of loved ones. 
In the spring they will be adding a Memory Walk, leading up to the Garden. Bricks will be available to purchase for this project also. 
Through their generous efforts they have help ICMH purchase many needed items. Such as: wide wheel chairs, updated TV's for patient rooms, foot stools, pictures for the walls, radiology supplies, recliners for patient rooms, fax machines, manikins for CPR classes, cement for walkways, books for babies and much, much more. If you are interested in joining or would like more information on the ICMH HealthCare Advocates, please contact President, Cindy Molter.
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