Gentiva Hospice Volunteer (Formerly Kindred Hospice)

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• Specialty Volunteers: Provide specific support including music, vigil, any arts and crafts, life review video, spiritual support and handyman help.
• Administrative Volunteers: Provide organizational/clerical support including filing, answering phones, mailings and additional support-some tasks can be completed from your home.

• Bereavement Volunteers: Provide support to families through phone calls, mailings, and visits-- some task can be done from your home.
  
  
• Patient Visitor Volunteers: Provide friendly visits to hospice patients in their homes or long-term healthcare facilities, to provide companionship and support both the patient and their families.

• Pet Therapy Volunteers: Provide caring visits to patients with their registered therapy dogs. The pet therapy volunteer team must be registered or willing to become registered.

Pet Must Be Certified
*I have information down below if you would like to have your pet certified in order to provide Pet Therapy.*

The application, test, and copy of our Rules and Guidelines are enclosed. A list of the Tester/Observers in your area, the link to begin the background check, and additional information like a video of our testing, presentations, and forms are on our website: www.therapydogs.com/join-therapy-dogs/

• Driver's License Needed
• Free Background Check
• Must be at least 18
• Orientation or Training
• Free Drug Screen
• Free 2 step TB Test

Volunteering means more than one can imagine to our patients and I will love to assist future volunteers in making a difference our patients' life.

We deliver with heart.

A warm smile. A kind word. A friend’s hand to hold your own. These seem like small things, but they can make the difference between someone who is merely receiving care and someone who feels truly cared for.