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Greenville, MI 48838
The Medical Team Hospice is seeking friendly and compassionate individuals to provide companionship and interaction with our patients, and respite for their caregivers and families. Our volunteers are indispensable key members of the Hospice care team. They share their time, talents and interests by providing comfort and support to our patients and their families during the critical time. The Medical Team Hospice provides comprehensive training and orientation to support you in the challenges of working with Hospice patients. If you can give 1-3 hours per week, please join out team!!!! The role of a volunteer would be to spend quality time with our patients engaging them in conversation and/or activities. A volunteer and patient may do activities together such as: play cards, read books, watch TV/movies, listen to music, go for walks, shopping, paint nails, beauty care, games, arts/crafts and other numerous leisure activities. Our patients enjoy music therapy, art, and pet therapy if available. Also, there are opportunities to help with the facilities' activities/events. Volunteers do not attend to personal care or medical needs, so no skills in these areas are needed.
Date Posted: Aug 24, 2023
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Kalamazoo, MI 49009
The Medical Team Hospice is seeking friendly and compassionate individuals to provide companionship and interaction with our patients, and respite for their caregivers and families. Our volunteers are indispensable key members of the Hospice care team. They share their time, talents and interests by providing comfort and support to our patients and their families during the critical time. The Medical Team Hospice provides comprehensive training and orientation to support you in the challenges of working with Hospice patients. If you can give 1-3 hours per week, please join out team!!!! The role of a volunteer would be to spend quality time with our patients engaging them in conversation and/or activities. A volunteer and patient may do activities together such as: play cards, read books, watch TV/movies, listen to music, go for walks, shopping, paint nails, beauty care, games, arts/crafts and other numerous leisure activities. Our patients enjoy music therapy, art, and pet therapy if available. Also, there are opportunities to help with the facilities' activities/events. Volunteers do not attend to personal care or medical needs, so no skills in these areas are needed.
Date Posted: Sep 5, 2023
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Flint, MI 48507
The Medical Team Hospice is seeking friendly and compassionate individuals to provide companionship and interaction with our patients, and respite for their caregivers and families at the end of life's journey. Your support can make a difference in these patients lives! You can make a difference by : Visiting with the patients- reading, singing or just having a conversation Making handcrafted items Doing puzzles Sit with patients to all family respite Share in a day of beauty- paint nails, comb hair, etc.. Make visits or calls to family
Date Posted: Sep 13, 2023
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Flint, MI 48507
The Medical Team (Hospice) goal is NOT to end life, but to make the end of life as full and meaningful as possible. Our society tends to run from death and make it a horrifying experience. Death is one of those four letter words. We work to help the patient and family recognize and come to terms with issues of grief and loss and to transform these final times into a beautiful process. It is a journey through pain, but it can be a journey rich with meaning and joy. And that is why we are here. We do not hasten death, but we do allow the person the dignity to die without painful, debilitating treatments that rob the person and their families of meaningful interactions because the person is experiencing painful side effects from treatments. We want life to be lived to the fullest until the final breath is taken. And even after death of one of our patients, we continue to follow-up with the family for the next 13 months through our bereavement program. Everyone has experience death at one point in their life and your experience as a volunteer can become a benefit to our patients and their family with being a part of their life with activities they love or just being bedside for them. Position Specific Responsibilities Administrative Volunteers: Provide assistance in the hospice office or with hospice activities. Bereavement Volunteers: Provide support to bereavement clients under the direction of the Bereavement Coordinator and the Volunteer Coordinator. Patient Care Volunteers: Provide visits to support patients and families as outlined in the Plan of Care, including companionship, caregiver relief, running errands, reading books, assisting with puzzles, painting nails, etc.. Provide support to patient and/or families sitting bedside with actively dying patients. Event Volunteers: Assistant in different activities such as bingo and special events or arts and craft for holidays All Volunteers: Submit documentation of all contacts with patients/families, or of any volunteer activity, in a timely manner to the Volunteer Coordinator; Participate in the in-service programs to keep informed about current information pertinent to the volunteer. Submit vaccination status with copy of proof ICHAT Background Check
Date Posted: Sep 13, 2023
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Westland, MI 48186
The Medical Team Hospice is seeking friendly and compassionate individuals to provide companionship and interaction with our patients. Our volunteers are indispensable key members of the Hospice care team. They share their time, talents and interests by providing comfort and support to our patients and their families during the critical time. The Medical Team Hospice provides comprehensive training and orientation to support you in the challenges of working with Hospice patients. If you can give at least 5 hours A MONTH, please join our team!! The role of a volunteer would be to spend quality time with our patients engaging them in conversation and/or activities. Just a few examples of activities our volunteers and patients do together: play cards, read books, watch TV/movies, listen to music, go for walks, paint nails, games, and arts/crafts. Our patients enjoy music therapy, art, and pet therapy if available. Also, there are opportunities to help with the facilities' activities/events. Volunteers do not attend to personal care of patients so no skills in this area is needed.
Date Posted: Aug 24, 2023