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11 people are interested
SUN Home Hospice Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: SUN Home Health & Hospice
Please visit the new page to apply.
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11 people are interested
The hospice concept is to provide care and dignity to those individuals with a life-limiting illness and to assist their families during and after this time. Hospice care is a loving way of keeping families together; it affirms life, emphasizing quality, not length. Hospice empowers patients to live fully while including families and loved ones in giving care. Volunteers play a large part in making this happen.
Functions performed by the hospice volunteers who visit in patient’s homes are varied and contingent upon the needs of the patient/family. They may include talking to, listening to, writing letters for, reading to the patient/family, teaching crafts, preparing light meals, running errands, making phone calls, decorating for holidays, etc. Volunteers are not responsible for personal care of the patient or any procedure usually performed by nursing staff.
Functions performed by the Hospice Care Center (inpatient hospice unit located in Sunbury) volunteers are varied and include: visit, talk and listen to the hospice patient/family; offer tours of the care center to visitors or to help orient a family; write letters, read, play games or teach a craft to patients; assist patients and families with receiving and partaking of meals; serve as a companion for the patient for short periods of time so family members feel comfortable leaving.
Volunteers are appreciated and needed as requested by the family -- typically once a week.
**FREE TRAINING PROVIDED**
Hospice Volunteer Contact: Carrie Stine
1-800-634-5232, extension 1450
More opportunities with SUN Home Health & Hospice
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About SUN Home Health & Hospice
Location:
61 DUKE ST, NORTHUMBERLND, PA 17857, US
Mission Statement
SUN Home Health & Hospice is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide high quality community health and social services in cooperation with other community health and social organizations.
Description
SUN Home Health & Hospice is a Medicare certified home health and hospice organization that has been servingCentral Pennsylvaniasince 1969. The organization annually cares for approximately 2,500 patients with nurses traveling more than three quarters of a million miles delivering that care. SUN Home Health & Hospice is a participating provider for most major insurers, many additional private insurance plans, and networks.
SUN Home Health & Hospice, with approximately 350 employees and volunteers, serves the needs ofCentral Pennsylvaniaresidents from seven branch locations, located in Lewisburg, Lewistown, Millersburg, Millerstown, Northumberland, Shamokin, and Williamsport/Montoursville. In spite of decreasing reimbursements and a changing healthcare environment, the organization annually provides more than $500,000 in uncompensated care while caring for all appropriate individuals needing assistance.
Since its inception SUN Home Health & Hospice has focused on improving the lives of those it serves by helping them to stay home while facing recuperation, a chronic illness, or a life-limiting diagnosis. Providing that care at home -- where all patients and families want to be -- is more cost efficient than that delivered by hospitals or long term care institutions. Provision of homecare has become an increasingly complex form of care as patients return home with shortened lengths of hospital stays and with "high tech" forms of care required in the home.
SUN Home Health & Hospice provides care to patients across the age spectrum, from birth through death (at whatever age). The goal in homecare is to keep families together at home when one of them is experiencing a significant illness.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
61 DUKE STNORTHUMBERLAND, PA 17857
DATE POSTED
August 16, 2016
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18