"Vets Caring for Vets": Veteran Volunteers Needed! Become a Hospice volunteer for Veteran patients.

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Our hospice program, "Vets Caring for Vets" needs volunteers who are willing to share their time and talents with other veterans.

Gentiva Hospice is a 4-Star provider in the We Honor Veterans programs and takes seriously the unique needs of our Veteran patients. Pairing "Vets with Vets" provides our patients with the opportunity to share the experiences of their lives with a person who can understand, relate and honor their service.

Veteran Volunteer opportunities are available to Vets of all ages and from all ranges of life experience to provide friendly visits to Veteran patients and/or their families at local healthcare facilities, Southwest Vets Home, or in their personal home in the Pittsburgh South Hills, North Hills, Washington County and Beaver Falls areas- you tell us where you would like to be stationed!

Volunteers are there to listen and talk, read a book, play cards, or watch a favorite t.v. show or ballgame. Volunteers also provide special support including playing a patient's favorite music or working on craft projects. No matter what your skills, talents or motivation, we have the opportunity for you to help!

Trained volunteers who are also Veterans will have the unique ability to support other veterans who are terminally ill.

What does it take to be a Gentiva Hospice Volunteer?

• Care and concern for others
• Tolerance, flexibility and patience
• Maturity and self-understanding
• Good communication skills
• Confidentiality
• Empathy, sincerity and sensitivity
• Dependability
• Acceptance of moral and cultural differences
• Ability to work cooperatively with others
• Ability to accept supervision and evaluation
• Be at least 18 years old
• Complete comprehensive hospice volunteer training
• Annual TB testing
• Submit to and pass a criminal background screening
• Submit to and pass a drug screening

For more information please contact Mike Bidaman, Manager of Volunteer Services at 412-920-5500 or Michael.Bidaman@gentivahs.com

*Companionship volunteers do not perform any clinical activities with a patient such as feeding, toileting, bathing or transferring.
*Volunteers schedule their own visits - day/time/frequency
*Volunteers receive training that fits into your busy schedule.
**Proof of being vaccinated for the Covid-19 virus is not required. Volunteers entering facilities may have to wear a mask depending on their policy at the time. Volunteers would be informed ahead of time and masks would be provided as needed.

To be invited to spend the last months, weeks, and days of a person's life is an honor and a privilege.