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Volunteer Opportunity

A Friendly Visitor for Hospice Patients and their Families in the Dayton Area

VITAS Healthcare
On-site, Volunteer must be in or near Dayton, OH
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    • Details

    Time Commitment:A few hours per month
    Recurrence:Recurring

    Description

    VITAS is looking for kind and caring people to help terminally ill patients and their families. Friendly visits, simple errands, providing a listening ear, and the gift of friendship at a crucial time, can make a real difference in another person's life. Yours, too!

    Other VITAS volunteer activities include: relief care (sitting with a patient while the caregiver takes a break); friendly visits to patients and their families at home or in a nursing home; driving a patient to appointments; accompanying a patient to a church function, wedding, beauty shop, play, ballgame; run errands to the grocery store, drug store, post office; assist with programs and special events.

    VITAS Volunteer orientation is provided free of charge to help you learn the skills required to be an outstanding hospice volunteer. Times and dates are ongoing and flexible.

    For more information about VITAS visit www.VITAS.com

    VITAS is looking for kind and caring people to help terminally ill patients and their families. Friendly visits, simple errands, providing a listening ear, and the gift of friendship at a crucial time, can make a real difference in another person's life. Yours, too!

    Other VITAS volunteer activities include: relief care (sitting with a patient while the caregiver takes a break); friendly visits to patients and their families at home or in a nursing home; driving a patient to appointments; accompanying a patient to a church function, wedding, beauty shop, play, ballgame; run errands to the grocery store, drug store, post office; assist with programs and special events.

    VITAS Volunteer orientation is provided free of charge to help you learn the skills required to be an outstanding hospice volunteer. Times and dates are ongoing and flexible.

    For more information about VITAS visit www.VITAS.com

    Location

    On-site

    Near your home, school or work

    Dayton, OH, USA

    How to Apply

    If you wish to volunteer for this opportunity, please contact Brenda Conley at brenda.conley@vitas.com

    If you wish to volunteer for this opportunity, please contact Brenda Conley at brenda.conley@vitas.com

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