Provide Friendly Visits to Hospice Patients and their Families

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's life. Yours, too! Other VITAS volunteer activities: relief care (sit 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 and on going training is provided to help you learn the skills required to be an outstanding hospice volunteer. A commitment of 6 months is requested For more information about VITAS visit VITAS.com.