Entries by Alyssa Piccari

August 2023 Volunteer of the Month

Isabel Benitez is our volunteer of the month for August 2023. Isabel serves as a Patient Escort and Interpreter on Thursday mornings. Isabel has been with LVIM for six years and has 1,072 volunteer hours with a value of service of $31,228.44. Isabel’s favorite part about being an LVIM volunteer is her opportunity to interpret […]

Walmart Spark Good

✨Support LVIM on Walmart Spark Good!✨ Help us in providing FREE healthcare to the working uninsured of Polk County by… 1) Donating change by rounding up your purchase at checkout on Walmart.com 2) Donating products from a nonprofit’s registry & have the items shipped straight to them. Choose LVIM as your favorite charity at the […]

July 2023 Volunteer of the Month

LVIM is proud to announce that Dr. Greg Cook is our Volunteer of the Month for July 2023! Dr. Cook is a podiatrist who sees patients once a month on Saturdays. Dr. Cook has been with LVIM since we opened in 2001. He has 1,300 volunteer hours, making his value of service $323,828.44. Dr. Cook […]

June 2023 Volunteer of the Month

LVIM is proud to announce that Maryann Cassell is our Volunteer of the Month for June 2023!   Maryann serves as a Pharmacist on Friday mornings, and she also fills in other shifts in the pharmacy when needed. Maryann has been with LVIM since we opened in 2001. She has 2,918 volunteer hours, and her […]

Welcome, Lori Jendrzekewski!

  Please help us welcome our new FamCare Data Clerk, Lori Jendrzejewski, to the LVIM team! Lori started volunteering at LVIM in 2015 and recently rejoined our volunteer team working in our pharmacy this year. During her years of volunteering, Lori served 1,395 hours and was awarded Volunteer of the Year in 2016. We are […]

LVIM is now a Service Enterprise!

Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine is now ranked among the top 11% of nonprofits in the country in volunteer engagement and organizational performance!!   This week LVIM has officially been certified as a Service Enterprise through Points of Light! This certification allows LVIM to join a prestigious group of nonprofits committed to effectively delivering on their […]

Welcome, Julia Stauffer!

Please help us welcome our new Patient Care Coordinator, Julia Stauffer, to the LVIM team! You may recognize Julia from her time volunteering with us! She serves as our Monday afternoon receptionist and Friday morning Intake Screener and has volunteered a total of 843 hours since July 2020. She will be working to help us […]

May 2023 Volunteer of the Month

Sharup Majumdar is our volunteer of the month for May 2023! Sharup serves as a patient scheduler on Monday afternoons. He has volunteered at LVIM for almost 2 years and has 393 volunteer hours. Sharup recently graduated from The University of South Florida with a major in Cellular and Molecular Biology. He will be applying […]

April 2023 Volunteer of the Month

Karen Williams is our Volunteer of the Month for April 2023! Karen currently serves as a special projects volunteer at LVIM. She creates skills checklists for various clinical positions, and she has also served as a Triage Nurse. She has served at LVIM for over two years and has over 428 volunteer hours! When asked […]