About Volunteering

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Our volunteers play a vital role in our organization. From patient care to helping in the office, the role of a volunteer is something that will never be forgotten; neither by you or by each life that you touch.

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Volunteer Opportunities Available:

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• Administrative Volunteers:

Provide support in the office: filing, preparing mailings, computer input, answering the phones, special projects

 

• Direct Patient Care Volunteers:

Visit patients and families at home, nursing homes, assisted living facilities. Pay a friendly visit; relieve a caregiver for personal time; light housekeeping; help grocery shopping; walk the dog; be the high point of someone’s day

 

• Tuck-in Program:

Call patients at the end of the week to make sure they have all supplies and medications that they need for the weekend.

 

• 11th Hour Volunteers:

Help ensure that no patient dies alone by being present at the final stages of a patient’s life.

 

• Community Outreach, and Special Events:

Help organize and implement community events such as community education, senior health fairs, holiday carnivals at nursing homes or assisted living communities.

 

• Caring For Veterans Program:

Veterans have served to provide security for us and for our country. We wish to serve them in their time of need in a way that recognizes and honors them, their families, and their service.

 

• Junior Volunteer Program:

Young people with hearts of compassion offer their time to go in to communities as a group accompanied by adult volunteers and visit with patients, perform group activities, sing, paint nails, and bring delight to the lives of those they encounter.

 

• Bilingual Volunteers:

There is nothing more comforting to a patient than to be able to communicate with them in their native language.

 

• Bereavement:

Attend funerals, make phone calls to the family, help organize memorial services, prepare mailings

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• Pawsitive Pet Connection:

Pet therapy and support for pets in the home

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• Kindness In Bloom:

Florists donate flowers and volunteers pick them up and deliver to our patients