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85 people are interested
Help a Patient Live Every Moment - Become a Hospice Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: UnityPoint Hospice & Taylor House
Please visit the new page to apply.
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85 people are interested
Contact us now to be included in our Summer, 2020 training! We are taking applications!
The safety of our volunteers is a high priority for UnityPoint Hospice. Due to COVID-19, we have decided to pause on providing volunteer services in patient homes and hospice houses. We are hopeful for the day when our lives return to some sense of normalcy and the excellent support volunteers provide to our patients and teams can resume. We will be ready to on-board new volunteers!
Be a part of our top ranked, non-profit hospice team! Hospice volunteers are a vital part of the care and compassion that UnityPoint Hospice provides to patients and their families. Hospice volunteers can provide different types of support, based on their interests, talents and abilities. Some volunteers work directly with patient care, providing much-needed respite breaks to family members, running errands, and lending emotional support and companionship. Other volunteers are called to the mission of hospice by assisting with fundraising efforts, special projects and clerical work that supports clinical services and patient care. Our volunteers are available for patients and families that are in their personal homes, nursing facilities or at Taylor House (our inpatient hospice home).
More opportunities with UnityPoint Hospice & Taylor House
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About UnityPoint Hospice & Taylor House
Location:
11333 Aurora Avenue, Urbandale, IA 50322, US
Mission Statement
We are your local non-profit hospice! Mission: Improve the health of the people and communities we serve. Vision: Best Outcome Every Patient Every Time
Description
What do you think of when you hear the word hospice? While hospice services are provided for those at their end-of-life journey, the process is really about living. Along with our hospice team, volunteers provide comfort and support for a patient and their family. Our volunteers ensure that each step of the journey for our patients fulfills UnityPoint Hospice’s goal - help patients and their families live every moment.
UnityPoint Hospice in central Iowa is consistently ranked at the top of the Medicare.gov hospice ratings locally and scores above the national average in every category of the family caregivers’ survey results: communication with family, getting timely help, treating patient with respect, emotional and spiritual support, help for pain symptoms, training family to care for patient, rating of this hospice, and willing to recommend this hospice.
At UnityPoint Hospice we make sure each patient is comfortable and receives the best possible care. Join us by becoming a volunteer!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple locations around the Des Moines Metro!Urbandale, IA 50322
DATE POSTED
April 3, 2020
SKILLS
- Basic Computer Skills
- People Skills
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 15
- Orientation or Training
- The time commitment is based on patient need and volunteer availability. We will work with your schedule.
- Contact us to learn more!