volunteers

Tom and Pat Purcell felt they had been given a gift when a family member survived a cancer diagnosis. The couple decided to give back by caring for others when they need it most.

Dave and Elaine Mendelin had retired to their dream home on the shores of Lake Superior when a trip to Rochester changed their future for[...]

Last week, as in years past, volunteers with Mayo Clinic Hospice came together to bake Christmas cookies for hospice patients who are no longer able[...]

Joanne Jackson Yelenik first came to Mayo Clinic in 1995. She’s returned again and again from her home in Israel, and tells us it’s the[...]

Mayo nurses put their hearts into making beautiful dresses they hope no one will ever wear. Lynn Gaber has put her heart into making beautiful[...]

Hanna Hughes was a "super active" teenager and played soccer for Rochester Lourdes High School when she started having hip pain. At first, doctors suspected[...]

Whether recalling the first kidney dialysis procedure at Saint Marys Hospital, talking about teaching nursing students at the bedside, or discussing her thoughts on the key[...]

Even as big-check presentations go, one that happened this week at a Mayo Clinic volunteer recognition event in Rochester was a doozy. The volunteers presented[...]

If we didn't have birthdays, it wouldn't have been the 110th anniversary of Dr. Seuss' big day. And if he'd never been born, well then[...]

The Energizer Bunny’s got nothing on Carroll Sharp of Jacksonsville, who, since the late 1960s, has been going and going and going … to donate[...]