Kettering Medical Center volunteers are people of different ages and backgrounds who share a common interest - helping others. Some have chosen volunteering as part of their retirement activities, while others do volunteer work in addition to their work at home or in a profession.

KMC volunteering offers a broad range of satisfying work opportunities, and at many different levels of commitment and ability. A teen volunteer program also is available in the summers for young people 15 years old and up in a variety of areas.

KMC volunteers participate in more than 100 job classifications, with varying time commitments and schedules. Assignments include areas of patient care, escorting, receptionist, office assisting, community services, gift shop and patient and family services. Volunteers also coordinate in collating, folding, taping and zipcoding pieces of outgoing mail for the medical center, brighten patients' days by bringing them flowers and mail from their friends and relatives, discharge patients from the hospital or wheel them from their rooms to appointments in the hospital, or inspect baby caps knitted by volunteers for new mothers. Volunteer fund raising supplies the funds for skeins of yarn.