WHAT DOES A HOSPITALITY AIDE DO?
Published: July 2, 2025 - The Hospitality Aide supports residents by responding to call lights, assisting with meal services, and helping with phone and video communication with loved ones. This role provides companionship, delivers mail and newspapers, and maintains clean, organized living spaces through light housekeeping and laundry support. The aide contributes to resident well-being by facilitating daily interactions and ensuring comfort in a safe, sanitized environment.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Hospitality Aide
1. Hospitality Aide Duties
- Supply Distribution: Pass ice, water pitchers, linens, towels and washcloths
- Meal Assistance: Mark and pass supplies, make beds, and help serve plates and drinks to residents at meal times
- Table Cleaning: Set/clean off tables in dining area, clean dishes, and put dishes away
- Snack Distribution: Assist in passing snacks to residents
- Smoking Assistance: Assist residents with smoking
- Resident Transport: Transport residents to and from activities, as well as conduct one-on-one activities with residents
- Trash Removal: Assist in various cleaning activities including but not limited to emptying linen/trash bins, cleaning wheelchairs, or other housekeeping duties
- Room Maintenance: Make beds and provide supplemental support to housekeeping by keeping resident rooms neat and orderly
- Call Response: Assist CNAs by passing ice, passing out meal trays and answering call lights
- Activity Escorting: Assist the Activities Department by pushing residents in wheelchairs to Activities within the healthcare center
2. Hospitality Aide Details
- Activity Escorting: Escort residents to activities and meals
- Supply Stocking: Stock resident rooms and supply areas
- Light Housekeeping: Perform light housekeeping duties
- Resident Welcome: Welcomes new residents and families
- Bed Making: Makes and remakes resident beds
- Meal Assistance: Assists residents at mealtime including setting up for meals
- Hydration Support: Refill water pitchers and residents' cups with fresh water and ice
- Nourishment Support: Assists the certified nurse aides with passing nourishment to residents
- Call Response: Answers call lights and assists with non-direct care requests
- Concern Resolution: Communicates customer concerns and assists with resolution
3. Hospitality Aide Responsibilities
- Room Organization: Organizing the room appropriately to enable residents and staff to move about safely
- Closet Arrangement: Organizing resident closets to ensure the items are in the correct closet, labeled and are stored properly
- Stand Organization: Organizing the bedside stand to ensure items are separated appropriately, labeled and available to the resident
- Item Replacement: Replacing missing or worn items such as toothpaste, brush, comb, personal items, etc
- Healthcare Stocking: Stocking rooms with appropriate healthcare items such as gloves, gowns, disposable diapers and pads, etc.
- Clothing Setup: Setting out the resident’s clothing for dressing by the CNA
- Resident Companionship: Providing companionship and engaging in socialization activities with residents (reading, writing letters, setting up tapes, taking books)
- Mail Distribution: Distributing personal mail
- Meal Encouragement: Conversing with residents to provide encouragement and a social atmosphere for eating and drinking fluids
- Tray Transport: Transporting trays to the dining area when the nursing staff is ready to assist with the meal
- Clothing Protection: Providing bibs and napkins to protect residents’ clothing and cloths at the end of the meal to wash faces and hands
- Meal Setup: Performing basic meal set-ups as directed by nursing staff (i.e., opening containers, pouring beverages, placing food/utensils within residents’ reach)
- Meal Assistance: Obtaining any missing or substitute food items, utensils or adaptive equipment as directed by nursing staff
- Tray Removal: Removing trays after the nursing staff has observed and documented the percentage of the meal consumed
- Bed Maintenance: Making and cleaning unoccupied beds using appropriate protocols
- Linen Disposal: Disposing and safely handling soiled linen using appropriate infection control procedures
- Wheelchair Transport: Pushing residents in wheelchairs or geri-chairs once the nursing staff have properly prepared the resident for transport
4. Hospitality Aide Job Summary
- Inventory Management: Completes inventory and marks the resident's possessions
- Resident Transfer: Transports residents to new rooms or the receiving area
- Bed Making: Makes beds as instructed
- Cover Placement: Puts extra covers on beds
- Call Response: Answer the resident call promptly
- Snack Service: Serves between-meal and bedtime snacks
- Food Check: Checks rooms for food articles (i.e., food in proper container, unauthorized food items, etc.)
- Housekeeping Support: Performing basic housekeeping support procedures for residents
- Area Sanitization: Cleaning and sanitizing all areas regularly
- Schedule Adherence: Following the daily cleaning schedule
- Supply Organization: Maintaining and organizing cleaning supplies
5. Hospitality Aide Accountabilities
- Call Response: Answer resident call lights and assist residents with basic, non-direct care requests
- Meal Service: Assist with resident meal service menu selections, pass and fill water bottles and snacks, deliver and collect meal trays
- Phone Assistance: Assist with answering phones, making phone calls
- Resident Companionship: Provide companionship and individual activities
- Video Support: Assist residents in connecting with family and friends via video, such as through Zoom and FaceTime
- Surface Sanitization: Light housekeeping/sanitizing of high-touch surfaces
- Room Organization: Make beds and organize resident rooms
- Mail Delivery: Deliver daily newspapers and resident mail
- Laundry Support: Assist with resident laundry service
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