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HealthConnectionHealthConnection is health education on the airwaves. UT Health Center presents information on health topics that affect you. Join the medical staff from the Health Center four times a day on KTBB AM 600 or KDOK 92.1 FM, and stay current on your health.

Volunteer Services

Volunteer Opportunities

Our volunteers come to us with a wide variety of experience and talents. We make every effort to ensure that they are given positions that suit their skills as well as their personalities. Below are a few of the opportunities you can enjoy as a UTCHT volunteer.

Floor Host - offer magazines and books to patients; deliver fresh ice water and mail

Patient Transportation - transport patients needing wheelchair assistance to appropriate clinics; deliver patient records, lab reports, specimens and clinic prescriptions

Guess Services/Information Desk - support UTHSCT staff members; answer phone; escort patients and/or vendors; field questions from visitors

Gift Shop - help customers; operate cash register; create floral and balloons arrangements; and assist with the cleanliness of the shop

Departmental Staff Support - perform clerical duties and run errands for a particular clinic or department

ICU/Surgery Waiting Room - provide a vital communication link from Health Science Center staff to family members; deliver messages; maintain fresh coffee and supplies

Hospice - provide non-medical support services as needed to home care patients, nursing home facility patients, inpatient facility, in accordance with patient’s plan of care

Hospitality Cart - serve complimentary beverages to the patients and guests in the outpatient or inpatient waiting rooms

Reach Out & Read - Read to children in the waiting rooms of the Pediatric Clinic. Prominent times are from 10:30 - 11:30 in the mornings and 2:30 - 4:00 in the afternoons. Books are provided. Patience and a willingness to share a book with a child is the key to this task.

Research - aid doctors, lab technicians, and other staff members with specific projects

Outside Projects - make tray favors, lap robes, and other assorted gifts for patients; knit or sew caps for onlcology patients.

Junior Volunteers - Young people ages 14 to 18 may volunteer at the Health Science Center during the summer during a specific time.

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CSS: This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2). CSS2 is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts, spacing, and aural cues) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications). By separating the presentation style of documents from the content of documents, CSS2 simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance.
XHTML 1.1: This Recommendation defines a new XHTML document type that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in Modularization of XHTML [XHTMLMOD]. The purpose of this document type is to serve as the basis for future extended XHTML 'family' document types, and to provide a consistent, forward-looking document type cleanly separated from the deprecated, legacy functionality of HTML 4 [HTML4] that was brought forward into the XHTML 1.0 [XHTML1] document types. This document type is essentially a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict using XHTML Modules. This means that many facilities available in other XHTML Family document types (e.g., XHTML Frames) are not available in this document type. These other facilities are available through modules defined in Modularization of XHTML, and document authors are free to define document types based upon XHTML 1.1 that use these facilities (see [XHTMLMOD] for information on creating new document types).
WAI-AAA: These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers) and for developers of authoring tools. The primary goal of these guidelines is to promote accessibility. However, following them will also make Web content more available to all users, whatever user agent they are using (e.g., desktop browser, voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based personal computer, etc.) or constraints they may be operating under (e.g., noisy surroundings, under- or over-illuminated rooms, in a hands-free environment, etc.). Following these guidelines will also help people find information on the Web more quickly. These guidelines do not discourage content developers from using images, video, etc., but rather explain how to make multimedia content more accessible to a wide audience.

University of Texas Health Center at Tyler

Volunteer Services

Volunteer Opportunities