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Hospital volunteers show generosity at Christmas
Hundreds give their time and talents to Northeast Georgia Health System
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North Patient Tower receptionist Teresa Maddox and Medical Center Auxiliary volunteer Sara Jane Peeples work the information desk Thursday morning at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center. The hospital auxiliary has a contingent of more than 600 volunteers ready to help.
Dot Dusenberry is no stranger to bedside visits. The 12-year volunteer with the Northeast Georgia Health System easily recalls a moment from last year when she felt she truly made a difference in a patient’s holiday enjoyment. “We went over to New Horizons over on Limestone Parkway,” Dusenberry said, adding she and her fellow volunteers decorated the nursing home for Christmas. “(The patients) are old and indigent in many ways.