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ORGANIZATION: Martin & Edith Stein Hospice

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Stein Hospice cares for elderly patients who would benefit from a friendly visitor. Many seniors are most comfortable talking in the language of their youth. If you speak Yiddish or Russian please contact us for a very rewarding volunteer experience! Our patients live in nursing homes and private homes throughout Union, Middlesex, Somerset and Monmouth counties.

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About Martin & Edith Stein Hospice

Location:

354 Demott Lane, SOMERSET, NJ 08873, US

Mission Statement

The mission of Stein Hospice is to provide compassionate, quality comfort care that enhances the lives of people with life-limiting illness, and their families', residing in Central New Jersey. Stein Hospice is a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive services to terminally ill patients and their families focusing on improving their quality of life. We believe that the end of life should be spent in an environment that provides the greatest comfort and sense of emotional well-being. Our professional hospice team and our trained volunteers serve the patients wherever they call home; whether it is a house, apartment, assisted living facility or nursing home. By recognizing the unique aspects of each family, its history and its way of dealing with lifes' challenges,Stein Hospice team customizes its care and compassionately brings a sense of peace and calm to patient and family at a time that they are most needed.

Description

Our terminally ill patients are in need of caring companions who will help them live the best lives possible in the last months, weeks and days of their lives.

Our hospice services are coordinated and provided by an interdisiciplinary team of professionals and trained volunteers. The volunteers offer essential help either directly to patients and their families, or in our offices. Direct patient care volunteers have the opportunity to create relationships with patients, offering them dignity, companionship and caring at a time when they need human connections the most.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Health & Medicine
Seniors
Community, Health & Medicine, Seniors

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

380 Demott Lane(as well as patient's homes in SomersetMiddlesex, Monmouth and Union counties)Somerset, NJ 08873

(40.499912,-74.51669)
 

SKILLS

GOOD FOR

  • Teens
  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 17
  • Orientation or Training
  • 1-2 hours per week
  • TB testing

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