VITAS Patient-Care Volunteers

What does a VITAS Innovative Hospice Care volunteer do? Provide respite (sit with a patient while the caregiver takes a break), friendly visiting to patients and their families at home or in a nursing home, driving a patient or family member to appointments, accompanying a patient to a church function, wedding, beauty shop, play, ballgame, run errands to the grocery store, drug store, post office, make telephone calls to home bound patients and families, make telephone calls to the bereaved, assist with programs and special events.