Direct Patient Care

Direct Patient Care involves a volunteer working directly with one of our patients and families. There are several ways this occurs, along with simply showing up regularly and visiting with our patients, while providing relational, social, and emotional support. This opportunity is open to mature adults, must be 18 or older. We also need Veteran Volunteers, who provide "so much unique, needed support to our Veteran Patients"!! If you like to sit with elderly people, share stories, look at photos, read to, walk the halls, push them in a wheelchair, attend Facility events or help them at home, relieve a Caregiver for 2-3 hours while they get away, etc., then WE NEED YOU!

Respite

Respite Volunteers provide "much-needed" relief to the Caregiver, if only for a short while, normally 2-3 hours. This allows the Caregivers to attend to their own needs (grocery shop, rest, banking, have lunch with a friend, go for a drive, etc.). The volunteer becomes a companion to the patient, quietly sitting and holding a hand, reading about current events or simply listening, are some of the things a respite Volunteer can offer. Veteran Volunteers are also needed for this need.

Errands

Unexpected needs arise daily with patient families and members of our hospice team. Delivering and picking up supplies, dropping off brochures or helping set up a booth are just a few of the errands that are always greatly appreciated. This directly helps the Hospice.

Use Your Talents

Musical performances, massage therapy, art therapy, hair cuts/styling, and pet therapy are other ways volunteers can help. Do you play an instrument? Flute? Violin? Piano? Guitar? Harp? We need you!

You could entertain at a Facility and/or with a patient one-on-one! Music is the Universal Language & we need your Talents!

Special Projects

Sending birthday or sympathy cards, creating gifts for the patient or the bereaved (after a Family Member passed), networking with other volunteers, attending fairs to help educate the public about our services, and assisting with a newsletter or scrapbook are some of the many special projects where volunteers are needed. We work together to arrange and deliver gift baskets at Christmas. And we also deliver flowers donated by a local flower shop twice a month to some of our patients.