- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Activites Assistant
ORGANIZATION: Piedmont Geriatric Hospital
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
The Volunteer Services Program is an integral part of the Hospital’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation Department. The primary mission of this Department is to help patients achieve their highest level of functioning, greatest quality of life, and to ultimately successfully reenter the community.
The Volunteer Services Program
Every volunteer contact is potentially a life-changing experience for patients and their families. A volunteer’s compassion and unselfish dedication can be inspiring for the staff, as well as beneficial to the patient.
Volunteers assist the patients and staff as chaperones when the patients are taken on day trips to shop, sight see, and just have a day of fun.
Volunteers write letters to family members, read to the patients, or simply listen attentively or share stories about the "good old days," and laugh at the appropriate times.
More opportunities with Piedmont Geriatric Hospital
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Piedmont Geriatric Hospital
Location:
5001 East Patrick Henry Hwy, Burkeville, VA 23922, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide recovery based Mental Health Services to enable the elderly to thrive in the community.
Description
Piedmont Geriatric Hospital (PGH) is a 123-bed geropsychiatric hospital, operated by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS). It is the only Virginia state facility that exclusively treats elderly persons (65+ years of age) who are in need of inpatient treatment for mental illness; meet the requirements for voluntary or involuntary admission as determined by their mental health center (CSB) and do not have a medical condition that requires priority treatment in an acute care hospital. The hospital has been accredited since 1985 by the national accrediting agency, The Joint Commission.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
5001 E Patrick Henry HwyBurkeville, VA 23922
DATE POSTED
March 14, 2017
SKILLS
- Event Management
- Music Therapy
- Storytelling
- Dance / Aerobics
- Habitat Restoration
- Music Arts
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 16
- Orientation or Training