Help hospice patients write their life stories in Marshall County, AL

Help hospice patients write their life stories in Marshall County, AL

Thank you for considering volunteer service with Enhabit Health - Hospice! Your experience will be valuable, engaging, and make a significant impact to the patients and families we serve.

Volunteers go into a hospice patient’s home and provide support by assisting them and their families record their life stories. Through socialization and companionship, their life stories become a legacy to future generations. Your presence will give the patient support through socialization and companionship.

Volunteers are welcome to help during the day, after hours, or on weekends. Volunteer commitment is flexible to volunteer’s schedule.

Requirements

We provide free training for all our volunteers. We prepare our volunteers to understand the complexity of issues and feelings that surround hospice care and end of life. Our care process is designed to maximize our patient’s quality of life and offer our patients and their love ones comfort, support and guidance when facing a terminal illness. Therefore, volunteers must complete the application and orientation processes. To ensure the safety of patients and volunteers Enhabit will do background screenings, and require volunteers to provide a valid driver’s license, and proof of auto insurance. A 2-step TB skin test is required and will be provided by Enhabit. Volunteers must have reliable transportation, must be dependable, and can complete written documentation.

Jr. volunteers ages 14-18 may volunteer if they are accompanied and supervised by an adult volunteer.

Please contact me if you think you would be interested in volunteering. I look forward to hearing from you today!

Crissy H. Faulkner, BSW Volunteer Coordinator