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**Currently, MEDWorld is not operational and not accepting donations. This page will be updated if/when this changes.**

MEDworld Volunteer Sign-Up

Volunteer opportunities include the following: collection of donated supplies at UNC Hospitals, sorting donated medical equipment and supplies, inventory, and packing supplies for shipments in the warehouse, as well as helping in the areas of administration and fundraising.

Hospital Collections volunteers are required to go through UNC Hospitals Volunteer Services Office for specific training. All other volunteers receive training on-site at the warehouse.

To volunteer in MEDworld Collections at UNC Hospitals, go to the following site to get more information on the training requirements and an application:
http://www.unchealthcare.org/site/volunteers

Make the commitment to volunteer for MEDworld!

We ask that volunteers commit to working with MEDworld for a minimum of one year. Volunteers are offered opportunities to shadow hospital physicians in clinical care.

Supplies

Supplies commonly donated are gloves, gauze, wound supplies, syringes, Foleys, sutures, and hygienic supplies. Please refer to our flyer for a list of appropriate supplies.

Here’s how and where you can drop off appropriate supplies.

Support

MEDworld is supported by the UNC Health Care system and operates out of UNC Hospitals. Our institutional supporters include UNC Central Distribution, UNC Sterile Processing, the UNC Department of Surgery and the UNC School of Medicine. For more information about MEDWorld, contact:

For more information, contact: Marianne Kersey at

MEDworld also partners with other organizations
including REMEDY at Duke University.

Donations

If you would like to contribute to MEDworld’s efforts to reduce waste and help those in need of better medical care around the world, please make your check payable to MEDworld and send it to:

MEDworld
c/o Medical Foundation of NC
880 MLK Jr. Blvd.
CB #7575
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-2600

MEDworld is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with UNC Health Care.

(Right to Left) Lydia Osborne of UNC’s Alpha Phi Omega
presents an award check from Charity Night to
Grace
Lempp, Alpha Epsilon Delta MEDworld Coordinator,

and Ella Akin, former MEDworld Fundraising Coordinator.

General Contact

For more information about MEDworld, contact:
Marianne Kersey

Email: