UAMS Auxiliary & Volunteer Services

12/08/2025

Happy Holidays! Celebrate the season with UAMS Auxiliary. Join us TODAY at the Main Entrance/Hospital Lobby Gallery for our annual Holiday Tree Lighting & Card Signing Celebration. Event will take place from 11 AM - 2 PM. We will illuminate our holiday trees at 12 PM noon. Refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you there! ⛄✨

12/03/2025

Current & Upcoming Auxiliary Events - Winter Holidays 2025 ⛄❄

We are accepting donations of new blankets for our yearly UAMS Auxiliary Covered in Love Blanket Drive. Now through mid-month, come by our office (Ward Tower, Suite 1E50) with your donations, which will go directly to patients and families over the holidays.

Purchase your Love Lights today! - $5.00 each. Love Lights acknowledgments will be sent out after Dec. 19th. 🎁💛 Link to the webpage for orders is in the comments below. ⤵

Embrace giving this season, in honor or memory those who inspire you to wrap our community in warmth this winter.

And join us, UAMS friends, at our Holiday Tree Lighting & Card Signing Celebration Mon. Dec. 8th, 2025. Event will be held starting at 11 AM, with the tree lighting at 12:00 PM/noon. Come by to add your message to our holiday cards — refreshments are on us!

We look forward to coming together this holiday season to give back comfort, hope, and healing to patients and families with UAMS Health this December.

12/01/2025

UAMS Auxiliary is pleased to announce our yearly holiday giving tradition Love Lights 2025 kicks off today! ❤️✨

Is there someone in whose honor or memory you hope to give back this holiday season — family members or friends, colleagues, mentors, those you cherish?

From now through December 19th, UAMS Auxiliary is accepting Love Lights orders. Each Love Light makes a contribution of $5.00. Our proceeds go toward UAMS Auxiliary patient and staff support programs.

Bring warmth to those who inspire the season. Let your love light up a life. Purchase your Love Lights today.

Link to our Love Lights webpage in first comment below. ⤵

11/26/2025

🍂🧡🍂 UAMS Auxiliary & the Office of Volunteer Engagement are thankful to all those whose acts of service and giving create positive impact for our community at .

11/05/2025

It's International Volunteer Managers Day 2025! Today, we're celebrating the voices of leadership in the volunteer sector, including our very own volunteer engagement professionals at UAMS Health.

Our Director, Jennifer Huie, Certified Volunteer Manager (CVM) and Certified Administrator of Volunteer Services (CAVS) reflects on this year's theme: "Be Bold. Make Change."

"It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform." 💯

11/05/2025

A Decade of Warmth: Annual Blanket Drive Returns! ✨

We want to collaborate with you to wrap patients and families in warmth this winter. From November 3rd through December 10th, we are accepting donations of new blankets in the spirit of the season.

For the past 10 years, UAMS Auxiliary has shared your gifts to create comfort, hope, and healing for patients and families with UAMS Medical Center over the holidays.

Thanks to the generosity of our community partners, our organization has been able to gift brand-new blankets to patients in our hospital units, hand-delivered by Santa Claus and his troupe of Auxiliary elves.

Come by with your donation now through Dec. 10th. We are located at the Office of Volunteer Engagement, UAMS Medical Center Suite 1E50, across from the Gift Shop. You can also contact Jaimel Jointer (jjointer@uams.edu) to arrange pickup.

Donate as many blankets as you like—we accept small or bulk donations.
Ready to make a difference? Your donation earns a spot on Santa's "Nice" List. Help us wrap our community in love this holiday season. 🎁

11/01/2025

The winter holidays will be here before we know it! We're looking forward to celebrating with you this season, in a spirit of giving. Look out for more details to come as we move through fall into the holidays, and on into a new year.

10/31/2025

October swept by for UAMS Medical Center Auxiliary as fall weather took hold! Our team joined several events to raise awareness about our programs and opportunities to give!

Care Management Skills Fair | October 17 🍂

We connected with care management professionals to share how our Discharge with Dignity program supports patients at UAMS Health. SPOT Therapy dogs stole the show, and your generous donations made all the difference in our ability to support patients and families.

UAMS Benefits Fair | October 22 🎃

Auxiliary team members were on hand to remind our colleagues about the importance of their donations for our patient support programs. Thank you to everyone who donated. Your gifts go directly to assisting UAMS patients and their caregivers/families.

Scrub Sale | October 20-22 (and online through October 31) 🍁

Read's Uniforms brought out fall fashions for our medical professionals. Turnout was spook-tacular this year, and every purchase benefited Auxiliary patient support programs. Look out for our next Scrub Sale in spring 2026, we look forward to seeing you again soon!

10/02/2025

Check out the first issue of our revamped quarterly newsletter, from UAMS Auxiliary and the Office of Volunteer Engagement.

Each quarter, we will be doing spotlights on our talented volunteers, bringing in voices from stakeholders working on behalf of UAMS Auxiliary, & sharing events and news about our programs.

This month's issue features recent NICU volunteer Isabel, historic photos from our visit to the UAMS Historical Research Center, a rundown of upcoming Auxiliary events, and some recent stats from our 2025 volunteer feedback survey.

Reach out & let us know: What would our readers like to see featured in our newsletter each quarter? What information matters most to our community? Leave us a comment or reach out with a message. Happy fall, everyone!

08/20/2025

📣✨ As the 2025–2026 academic year kicks off, the UAMS Office of Volunteer Engagement is sending a big shoutout to the Central AR region's new & returning students! 📚✨

Why not start your semester with some meaningful volunteer service on your schedule?

Whether you’re:

✔️ earning service hours for a course
✔️ growing your community network
✔️ finding new ways to put compassion into action
. . we’ve got you covered!

📲 Scan the QR code to learn more & apply (click “Volunteer Now” in the blue field). This year, opportunities are waiting for you through programs like:

🏥 Helping Hands (Inpatient Units) – enhance patient experience and assist clinical staff.
🧭 WayFinders – guide visitors through the medical center.

Apply today and start giving back! 🌟 We look forward to assisting you in your service goals this semester and beyond!

07/15/2025

🩺✨ HEALERS Program 2025: Future Healthcare Heroes in Action! ✨🩺

UAMS Health welcomed 12 talented rising high school juniors and seniors to our Healthcare Education Active Learning Experience for Regional Scholars (HEALERS) Program!

These brilliant students scrubbed up to explore healthcare careers earlier this summer, laying crucial groundwork for futures in the medical workforce.

🩺🔬 Program highlights:

✅ Joined lectures, workshops, and demos with clinical and non-clinical experts at UAMS Health
✅ Conducted experiments in hands-on labs/practical tasks with UAMS faculty and staff
✅ Gained real-world experience through volunteer work in our hospital units and in patient experience contexts

The curiosity, teamwork, and dedication these students showed was absolutely inspiring! UAMS Office of Volunteer Engagement/UAMS Auxiliary was honored to host these future healthcare professionals and help students take a big step toward careers in health sciences.

Huge thanks to our UAMS HEALERS Intern Parker Byrd for planning and facilitating, and to all UAMS faculty and staff who contributed time, developed thoughtful demos and lectures, and made this summer program incredible!

06/06/2025