title: Comfort, care for families who must wait.
abstract: Volunteers staff a special waiting room that extends humanistic care to meet the needs of families as they wait to learn the outcomes of their relatives' surgery or tests.
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006758:Hospital Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*