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Become a Hospice Volunteer with Gentiva Hospice!

A hospice volunteer is an individual trained by Gentiva Hospice to provide volunteer services to patients, their families, and the hospice team. As a volunteer, you help fulfill the promise of hospice in many ways. You are that helping hand that can brighten a patients life.

Volunteer tasks can be patient related or non-patient related. Some examples of patient related tasks include:

• Visit with the patient wherever they live (e.g., at home, an assisted living or skilled nursing facility, or a group home)
• Tuck-in calls
• Assist with letter writing or other projects
• Help write or record the patient’s life story
• Read to the patient or join them in watching a favorite TV show
• Sing or play music

Some examples of non-patient related tasks include administrative activity such as:

• Filing, auditing, and copying
• Data entry of records
• Assisting with mailings, letters, and cards
• Other general office or administrative tasks assigned by the volunteer coordinator.

https://www.gentivahs.com/careers/volunteers/