The White Mountain Regional Medical Center volunteers are valued members of the Medical Center family.
Since 1959, the White Mountain Regional Medical Center Auxiliary has been an important arm of the hospital, dedicated to supporting its missions, contributing funds, and providing scholarships to local community members interested in health-related fields.
The Auxiliary Gift Shop, conveniently located in the heart of the hospital's entrance, is the major fundraising source. The gift shop stocks candy, jewelry, toiletries, snacks, cards, balloons, and assorted gift items. Gift shop hours are Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Volunteer projects include:
Whether you are a homemaker, career professional, or retired, White Mountain Regional Medical Center's Auxiliary has a volunteer opportunity for you. If you would like to become a volunteer, please call (928) 333-7132.
Generous support from our community contributes to the outstanding care provided at White Mountain Regional Medical Center. WMRMC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, so contributions are tax-deductible.
Donations to White Mountain Regional Medical Center support programs and services that fall outside the normal structure of hospital operating expenditures. Gifts may be made to honor or memorialize someone, establish or support a particular fund, purchase new equipment, or expand or build new areas.
Contributions may come in many forms, including cash, securities, real estate, personal property, life insurance, wills and bequests. Gifts may be small or large, anonymous or recognized, one-time or planned over time.
This generosity supports White Mountain Regional Medical Center programs and services, ensuring excellent patient care for our local communities.
White Mountain Regional Medical Center works in close proximity with Donor Network of Arizona, as prescribed by law. Although organ donation happens under the most difficult of circumstances, a single donor can save the lives of several people.
Organ and tissue transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy, productive, normal lives, returning them to their families, friends, and communities. You have the power to change someone's world by being a donor. It's about living. It's about life.
The decision to be an organ and/or tissue donor is one that provides the greatest gift of all…. life. And now, being a donor is as simple as signing up on the Arizona Donor Registry. This registry provides complete information, so you can make an informed and legal decision to be a donor. Sign up now at www.AZDonorRegistry.org.
If, for any reason, you do not want to sign up on the Arizona Donor Registry, you can still be a donor by signing a donor card and making your family and/or medical decision maker aware of your wishes. If you are not on the donor registry, your family or medical decision maker will be asked about your wishes at the time of your death.
Organs, including heart, lungs, liver, kidney, pancreas, and small intestine, as well as tissues, including skin, bones, veins, heart valves, tendons, and ligaments.
A critical need for organs currently exists in the United States; the criteria for donation are changing constantly. Today, anyone can be considered for organ and/or tissue donation, regardless of age or illness. No one should exclude him or herself from the possibility of donating on the basis of age or medical history.
Almost anyone can be an eye donor. Cataracts, poor eyesight, and age does not prohibit you from being a donor.
Depending on the type of cancer and whether you are currently in remission, you may be able to donate organs. If the cancer is not blood-borne or has not progressed to the eye, corneal donation is an option.
Great care is taken to preserve the appearance of the donor. Because recovery of organs and tissues is a surgical procedure, incisions are made for the specific recovery. This does not prohibit an open-casket funeral.
There is no cost to the donor's estate or insurance company for anything related to donation.
It is important for both parties that confidentiality is maintained. Initial correspondence is coordinated through the transplant center and Donor Network of Arizona, which will forward the letters to the donor families or recipients. In the event that both parties wish to meet each other, Donor Network of Arizona will facilitate this.
Donation does not affect customary funeral arrangements.
No, it is illegal to buy or sell organs. Severe penalties are imposed for violators.
In most cases, yes. Organ size is critical for matching donor and recipient hearts, livers, and lungs. Genetic makeup between kidney and pancreas donors and recipients is more critical, due to genetic makeup. For this reason, for example, Hispanics may "match" better with a kidney donated from another Hispanic than from any other race.