COMMUNITY CARE HOSPICE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITES
Our energetic, patient-focused volunteers are valued members of our hospice team. All volunteers are provided training and an opportunity to identify the kind of volunteer contribution they wish to pursue. Some assignments, such as those that require direct patient contact, require special training.
Volunteer opportunities Include:
- Visit with patients
- Make keepsake items for patients and families as part of a crafter group
- Provide caregiver relief for families
- Transport patients to doctor appointments or hospitals or family members to visit their loved one at the Hospice Unit (Volunteers have their own vehicles)
- Deliver supplies to patients
- Celebrate patient birthdays by baking a cake
- Create a Memory Bear from an article of clothing of a loved one
- Record life stories of patients on DVD
- Honor and pin fellow military Veteran patients with the Ohio’s Hospice American Pride pin
- Help in offices with medical records, filing, computer data entry, mailings, making phone calls, copying materials, and other general office duties
- Serve as members of fundraising event planning committees
- Provide help in maintenance at patient homes
- Represent Community Care Hospice as a Community Ambassador as part of the Speaker’s Bureau, telling community groups about our services
- Supporting family members with periodic phone calls after the loss of a loved one
