Vidant Medical Food Pantry

Volunteers Needed

The Medical Food Pantry at VMC is currently seeking volunteers to assist

with pantry operations.

Volunteer duties include:

•Staffing the front desk /Greeting patients and family members

•Receiving food vouchers from referred patients

•Providing nutrition bags based on diet indicated on food voucher

•Providing basic nutrition education handouts to patients

•Collecting and Documenting key information on patient vouchers

•Receiving food donations for the pantry, as needed The Medical Food Pantry at VMC operates Monday–Friday from 10 am –4 pm, except on holidays.

Volunteer shifts are in 2 hour increments.

The Medical Food Pantry at VMC is located at 600 Moye Blvd in Greenville and is accessible by ECU bus transit from Mendenhall to the Health Sciences campus.

Volunteers are required to complete an online orientation to begin volunteering. Once the orientation is complete, volunteers will receive a Sign Up Genius link to view available shifts and sign up.

For more information, please contact MedfoodpantryVMC@gmail.com or call 252-847-7821.

We provide you with online orientation training, as well as access to additional online nutrition education and food safety training After you complete the online orientation training you are ready to work one or more 2-hour shifts providing emergency food bags to patients who have received a voucher at the hospital or in their doctor’s office. You are trained to provide a brief food and nutrition instruction and handouts. After completing a second training module, on Healing Food, our volunteers will understand better how to assist with food drives, sorting and inventorying foods, filling the healthy food bags and other activities of the Medical Food Pantry. These will be held with additional training as scheduled times.

To learn more about volunteering or become a volunteer at the pantry just register at the Eastern AHEC website www.easternahec.net. If you have an account at Eastern AHEC just sign in. If you do not have an account, you will need to Create An Account. You will need an email address. It may take as little as a few seconds or up to 30 minutes to receive a verification email. Then you simply fill in the registration information as indicated. Items with * are required. Once registered you can access the Medical Food Pantry orientation course: (Course Number 57190). Please know that it takes less than an hour to complete the orientation course and take the quiz. Eight (8) correct answers is passing, and you may repeat the quiz as often as needed to pass. Within one business day you will receive a Certificate of Completion and at a later time a link to the sign up genius.