NO – we love our volunteers with many backgrounds from all over the community. We need nurses, interpreters, CNA’s, EMT’s, social workers, dentists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and others. This includes retired folks and high school students; individuals and groups. There is always plenty of work to do!

The community at large is invaluable to Maliheh Free Clinic. Whether it is providing administrative support, helping as a translator, reading to children while they are waiting for a doctor, providing minor building repairs such as replacing burned out light bulbs, we always have the need for volunteers. If you feel you could help in some small way, please contact us.

To be an interpreter at the Clinic you need to be fluent in both English and Spanish. Our only dedicated interpreter shifts are for Spanish interpreters, but we welcome any other languages as we might reach out to you for specific patient visits. You don’t need to know medical terminology – we can provide you with tools to help with that. If you aren’t sure your language skills are up to par, we can still use your abilities to help answer phones and make reminder calls to patients while you get more comfortable with your second language.

On your first day at the clinic, you’ll receive an orientation that will fill you in on all our general policies, introduce you to our key staff, help you learn where things are and introduce you to our systems. Then you will receive several days working with a trainer in your specific job, making sure you are familiar with everything you need to know to be effective. We’ll also inform you about make you aware of our ongoing, regular training opportunities.

Yes. Students are also an important part of our clinic and provide a much needed service. We accept students that are currently enrolled in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs, physician assistant programs, as well as medical students. Our physicians enjoy working with students who have a desire to serve those in need. Please work through your school to arrange for these kinds of experiences.

We offer numerous volunteer opportunities for undergraduate students. Depending on their specific abilities and backgrounds, they may be asked to help triage patients, work in our Patient Assistance Program to obtain needed prescriptions for patients or help in our office. There are also a number of other projects that students work on throughout the clinic in order to improve patient care.

We ask that you volunteer at least twice monthly (a total of eight hours) to stay up to date on procedures at Maliheh. You select the shifts depending on your availability. Some volunteer positions require a more regular commitment because of the amount of training necessary for you to be successful. Our Volunteer Coordinator can help you determine the best match for your skills and schedule.

You’ll set your own schedule. Many of our medical providers volunteer weekly, but you tell us when you want to volunteer and we will work with your schedule. Clinic hours are Monday through Friday, 9am – 4pm and Wednesday evenings until 8pm.

You’ll tell us how many patients you would like to see. There are no billable hours to worry about, so you will have the opportunity to spend quality time with each of your patients without the pressure of reimbursement requirements.

As a free clinic, we don’t take patients with insurance – this means no billing, no coding, no insurance companies to deal with – just pure medicine.

The Maliheh Free Clinic has a physician/medical director who is responsible for follow up on labs and test results and who makes sure that medical services are available to your patient between your volunteer days.

You’ll be working with a wonderful team of volunteer medical providers, both primary care and specialists. It’s fun to work with and learn from each other in a friendly, informal setting. There are volunteer nurses, interpreters, patient techs, office staff and others who are all here for the right reasons. No grouchy co-workers – people are here because they want to make a difference.

As a volunteer medical provider at the Maliheh Free Clinic you receive malpractice/liability protection in 2 ways:

1. Maliheh Free Clinic is deemed eligible under the Federal Torte Claims Act (FTCA).  If a health center or free clinic is deemed eligible by FTCA, health professionals at the clinic can receive free malpractice protection under FTCA. This means any claims made against health professionals at the clinic must proceed through the federal government, and the federal government acts as the primary insurer. Read more here.
2. Utah’s Good Samaritan Law, see link for information on “Medical Providers Immunity from Liability Act” here.

At the Maliheh Free Clinic, we have access to full service labs, on-site X-ray and Ultrasound as well as to most specialty providers. All these are provided at no cost to the patient. Other radiology testing and specialty consults are available through Intermountain Healthcare at a minimal cost to the patient. Volunteers help your patients navigate the system to make sure they have access to all necessary testing.

Patient Assistance program volunteers will help your patients get access to no-cost medication through pharmaceutical manufacturers.