Originating in the mid-1940s, candy stripers, typically teenage girls and young women, wore red-striped pinafores as they volunteered in hospitals delivering mail, books and magazines to patients and ...

An iconic health-care initiative that has become scarce in recent years is making a comeback at a local senior living facility, and administrators say all parties involved are benefiting. Methodist ...

Remember candy stripers? Those sweet hospital volunteers in the red and white striped pinafores, who delivered flowers and fluffed pillows and read stories to patients? I was one, mercifully briefly, ...

Volunteers at The Carroll Hospital Center Auxiliary’s Candy Striper Jr. were selected as Carroll Hospital Center’s December Volunteers of the Month. They were chosen for their extraordinary dedication ...

The girls, after undergoing a competitive application process, were selected to be this summer’s candy striper volunteers, and had spent the past few months working in different departments at the ...

Five young hospital volunteers will share $30,000 in scholarship funds to further their education. The awards were granted to candy stripers by the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda at its annual awards ...

FALL RIVER — In a red-and-white striped pinafore and sneakers, candy striper Jessica McCausland fed her patients their lunch and brought them little comforts as she made her rounds at Charlton ...

FALL RIVER — In a red-and-white striped pinafore and sneakers, candy striper Jessica McCausland fed her patients their lunch and brought them little comforts as she made her rounds at Charlton ...

The hospital experience is a little bit brighter for patients thanks to new Head Candy Striper Kenyari Ingham. Ingham, 17, from Hamilton, was awarded the Penny Ray Achievement Award after displaying ...

Brooklyn, N.Y., native Nancy Wyman’s early work paid almost nothing. In fact, the stipend she received didn’t even cover the cost to ride the bus to one of the city’s hospitals where she volunteered ...

Six Candy Stripers were honoured at the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda Candy Striper Award Ceremony, with Starr Bowen being ...

An iconic health-care initiative that has become scarce in recent years is making a comeback at a local senior living facility, and administrators say all parties involved are benefiting. Methodist ...