Peer Support Program
The UNC Health Care Peer Support Program is an initiative to support the Quadruple Aim.
The Peer Support Program connects health care professionals with trained peer support volunteers after adverse patient events, unanticipated patient outcomes, or loss of a patient.
Support is also available after verbal or physical assaults from patients or visitors.
This resource is open to all healthcare professionals involved in patient care including, but not limited to, physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, techs, and therapists
Contacting the Peer Support Program
If you are interested in peer support, please contact Jenny Tauber, the Integrated Emotional Support Coordinator, by phone, pager or email. The coordinator will arrange for a trained peer support volunteer to contact you.
Phone: (919) 966-5479
Pager: 216-0660
Email: jennifer_tauber@med.unc.edu
You can also reach out to Peer Support Volunteers directly.
Volunteers have signs identifying them to their colleagues as trained Peer Support Volunteers.
Jenny Tauber, MHA
Jenny Tauber, RN, MHA
Jenny Tauber, RN, MHA, is the System-Wide Well-Being Program Coordinator for UNC Health Care. She completed a BA in English at St. Olaf College and worked as an Editorial Assistant in the Department of Surgery at UNC before returning to school to earn a BSN at UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Nursing. While a nursing student, she served as a Kate B. Reynolds extern in addition to working as a nursing assistant in the Jaycee Burn Center. After graduation, she continued to work for UNC Healthcare as an operating room nurse and earned CNOR certification. In 2016 she completed her MHA at the Gillings School of Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill.