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Provide Companionship to Hospice Patients - Kettering area

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ORGANIZATION: Ohio Living Hospice

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Ohio Living Bethany Hospice provides special care, comfort, and support to those facing a life-limiting illness. Volunteers are a large part of hospice care and make an INCREDIBLE difference in the lives of others. Hospice volunteers can contribute in a variety of ways:

  • Provide companionship by just being present with the patient, listening to their stories, doing activities, etc.
  • Provide a bedside presence for a patient who is actively dying.
  • Assist patients with documenting their stories or writing cards or letters.
  • Conduct video chats with patients and their out-of-town loved ones.
  • Help tidy up a patient's room or maintain their house/yard.
  • Assist our chaplains with bereavement services and support for families after patient deaths
  • Create or collect items to be donated to our patients.

We try to match you with patients you would get along with well and who are as close to your home as possible. We provide services to Bethany Village as well as other facilities and in patient homes in the community.

Any volunteers wanting to visit or talk to patients/families directly must undergo an extensive onboarding process, including a background check, fingerprinting, drug screen, 2-step TB test, in-person and online training. Once you've joined the program, you can visit patients whenever and however often you want! You just need to decide your frequency (weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc.) and stick to it.

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About Ohio Living Hospice

Location:

11275 Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45246, US

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the Christian Gospel.

Description

Ohio Living the largest and most experienced not-for-profit provider of home health, hospice and continuing care retirement communities in Ohio.

Hospice is a special kind of caring. Hospice care is patient and family centered and seeks to provide support and comfort to those facing a life limiting illness. Volunteers play a large role in this effort by sharing their skills and interests in a manner that enriches the quality of life for those they serve.

Medicare also recognizes the importance of volunteers in the delivery of hospice care. Medicare requires that hospice utilize volunteers from their local community to augment the care the hospice agency provides. Nationally, over 100,000 people serve as hospice volunteers and give millions of hours of their time to serve terminally ill patients and their families.

CAUSE AREAS

Community
Health & Medicine
Seniors
Community, Health & Medicine, Seniors

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

Multiple locations , OH 45429

(39.68016,-84.15407)
 

SKILLS

  • Elder care
  • Customer Service
  • Bereavement Support
  • Hospice Care
  • Veteran Care
  • Relationship Building

GOOD FOR

  • Teens
  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Driver's License Needed
  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 14
  • Orientation or Training
  • Flexible. You tell us what your visit frequency will be, but the visits do not have a minimum time requirement. It all depends on how your patient is feeling that day.
  • Application, interview, background check, drug screen, fingerprinting, 2-step TB test, in-person training, and online training.

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