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243 people are interested
Hospice Patient Companion
ORGANIZATION: Martin & Edith Stein Hospice
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243 people are interested
Do you want to make a difference in someone's day? Martin and Edith Stein Hospice gives loving attention and professional care to terminally ill patients. We need compassionate volunteers to offer nonmedical one-on-one visits to our patients. If you can read aloud, listen sympathetically or simply hold a hand you can bring comfort into our patients' lives. Join our caring team of nurses, aides, social worker, chaplain, doctors and other amazing volunteers and help improve the quality of life for hospice patients and their families.
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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
WHEN
WHERE
380 Demott Lane(as well as patient's homes in SomersetMiddlesex, Monmouth and Union counties)Somerset, NJ 08873
DATE POSTED
October 15, 2018
SKILLS
- Elder care
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 17
- Orientation or Training
- 1-2 hours per week
- Health evaluation including TB tests