My Internship At Franciscan St. Margaret Health Hospital

My Internship was at Franciscan St. Margaret Health, 5454 Hohman Avenue, Hammond, Indiana 46320-1999. The program and agency I was involved in was Indiana Volunteer Advocates for Seniors and Incapacitated Adults Program, also called VASIA which was founded by Franciscan St. Margaret Health Hospital of Hammond. They are in partnership with the Lake Superior Court as a best practices volunteer limited guardian model for collaborative problem-solving between the hospital healthcare providers and the courts and this is the purpose of the agency. The Agency Mission Statement is The Volunteer Advocates for Seniors and Incapacitated Adults Program provides quality volunteer limited guardian services to protect the health, well-being and safety of unbefriended, decisionally-incapable adults, who are ill and at-risk in hospitals, long-term are at-risk in hospitals, long-term care and hospice healthcare facilities in Northwest Indiana. And the Agency Mission is to develop a model volunteer adv ocacy program to serve the needs of incapacitated elderly persons who are alone and in hospital, nursing home or hospice health care facilities in the Northwest Indiana Region. The program goals are: †¢ To protect and improve the health, well-being and safety of ill and at-risk incapacitated adults in Northwest Indiana. †¢ To facilitate appropriate access to health care, social services for ill and at-risk incapacitated adults in Northwest Indiana. †¢ To expand a best practice volunteer limited