A new summer program is wrapping up for the year at Tucson Medical Center in midtown, giving some local teenagers a window from years past into the modern medical world.
Their candy striped-outfits may be a thing of the past, but the goal of these teens at TMC remains the same in the Auxiliary Youth Leadership Program. While they dress in scrubs now, they’re earning their stripes helping the hospital, essentially doing the same thing candy stripers once did.
“They’re engaging in support services,” explained Jim Marten, the director of volunteer services at TMC. “They don’t provide any direct care, and they don’t go into patient rooms, but they are helping to fold linens, clean areas, direct patients, help patients who are waiting in the lobbies that might need hospitality.”…