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Case Study Of Aiken Regional Medical Center
Aiken, SC often thought of as a shining star in the shadow of Augusta is harboring its own shadow at our very own Aiken Regional Medical Center. With more than two-hundred volunteers within our community answering phones and brightening your stay, the volunteers themselves, most of whom are retired and on fixed incomes, are being extorted and exploited. A volunteer at the hospital told me they must purchase a vest at their own expense, pay dues which go for scholarships for local nurses, participate in fund raising for the hospital, and if the volunteers don’t show up, often that area will be left unattended. They just fired all of their chaplains because corporate decided they didn’t want anything religious in the hospital, and if people bring

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