Volunteer at Denver Health
Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Denver Health! Volunteers are an integral part of our team and share our commitment to providing exceptional experiences to patients, families, and our community.
Denver Health has a variety of ongoing volunteer opportunities that play an important role in providing comfort, empathy, and care to brighten a patient's hospital stay or clinic visit.
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities:
Most volunteer roles, with the exception of our specialty programs, like Pet Therapy, start in our Pathfinder Program.
Pathfinders are the face of Denver Health! They serve a critical role in the hospital from helping patients and visitors find their way to appointments to bringing much needed comfort items to patient rooms. The Pathfinder role allows new volunteers to get comfortable with the hospital campus and become familiar with the various departments and additional volunteer roles available all while providing a vital service to our visitors.
While many volunteers choose to stay in the Pathfinder role, after 32 hours of volunteer service, a Pathfinder is able to be matched with a different department.
Some available roles are:
Short-Term Volunteer Opportunities:
If you aren’t available for one of our ongoing volunteer opportunities, Denver Health offers several short-term or one-time opportunities for individuals, families or groups.
Our short-term volunteer opportunities do not involve any direct contact with patients and do not require the same onboarding procedures as our ongoing volunteer roles.
Newborns In Need
One third of all babies born in Denver are born at Denver Health and nearly 90% of those children come from families who struggle to get by. With the help of donations from our community, every child in need born at Denver Health is sent home with a bag of some of the essential items for their first few days of life, like diapers, blankets, and clothes. Our volunteers pack hundreds of bags each week to be shared with those families. Most packing sessions last 2 hours and can be scheduled with your friends, family, or small group. For more information on those sessions and how you can help, please contact Sharon Mushkin at Sharon.Mushkin@dhha.org or 303-602-2985.
How to Apply
Apply Here!
Additional Information
Hours of operation - Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Phone: 303-602-2926