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Flexible Schedule
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Virginia Beach, VA 23462
If you have an hour or more per week to give, Gentiva Hospice welcomes your gifts of time and compassion. You and your pup can make a profound difference in someone's life, including your own. Volunteers are an integral part of the hospice team and provide emotional support that enhances the comfort and quality of life for patients, and their families and loved ones. Are you a certified pet therapy team with a desire to bring joy to others? Our hospice program is seeking pet therapy partners to provide emotional support and bring a smile to our patients and families. Visits will be with individual patients in private homes, assisted living facilities, and/or nursing homes. You will collaborate with hospice staff to ensure the patient's needs are met. The therapy animal must be well behaved, registered with a recognized organization and up to date on all required vaccinations. The volunteer must have current liability insurance coverage. Hospice volunteers often say their experience is personally rewarding and emotionally meaningful to help those in need at a critical point in their lives. Your volunteer work is significant and can make a positive impact on the quality of others' lives. We support a wide area, and visits would be set up convenient to you. Areas covered: Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth.
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Virginia Beach, VA 23462
If you have an hour or more per week to give, Heartland Hospice welcomes your gifts of time and compassion. Whether you choose to work directly with patients and families or to volunteer in one of many ways, you can make a profound difference in someone's life, including your own. Volunteers are an integral part of the hospice team. Volunteers provide emotional support and practical assistance the enhances the comfort and quality of life for patients, their families and loved ones. Companionship volunteers work directly with patients providing companionship, offering friendly visits, reading to patients, watching TV/movies, talking about current events, writing letters, running errands, preparing a meal, offering a gentle touch or sharing a quiet moment. Hospice volunteers often say their experience is personally rewarding and emotionally meaningful to help those in need at a critical point in their lives. Your volunteer work is significant and can make a profound impact on the quality of others' lives. We support a wide area, and visits would be set up convenient to you. Areas covered: Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth.
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Suffolk, VA 23435
Companion - Music - Pet Therapy - Reiki - Knitting - Sewing If you have an hour or more per week to give, Gentiva Hospice welcomes your gifts of time and and compassion. Whether you choose to work directly with patients or volunteer in one of many other ways, you can make a profound difference in someone's life, including your own. Volunteers are an integral part of the hospice team. Volunteers provide emotional support and practical assistance that enhances the comfort and quality of life for patients, their families and loved ones. These services can include being available for companionship, listening or simply "being there" for a patient, as well as running errands and preparing meals. Hospice volunteers often say their experience is personally rewarding and emotinally meaningful to help those in need at a critical point in their lives. Your volunteer work is significant and can make a positive impact on the quality of others' lives. Volunteer Opportunities: Companionship Volunteers work directly with patients providing companionship, reading to patients, watching TV/movies, offering a gentle touch or sharing a quiet moment. Reiki Practitioners serve our end-of-life population by finding comfort, relaxation and peace during their final time with us. Reiki Certification is required. Pet Therapy Volunteers provide companionship with their registered therapy dog. Pets must be registered with a recognized organization. Music Volunteers specialize in sharing songs or instumental music with our patients and their loved ones. Craft Volunteers touch patients in a special way by making lap blankets, Tactile blankets, shawls, sleeves, and memory bears/pillows. Bereavement Volunteers offer support to the families of patients who have passed. They often make phone calls to check up on family members and send cards of comfort and care. We support a wide area, and visits would be set up convenient to you. Areas covered: Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth.
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Suffolk, VA 23435
Heartland Hospice is looking for craft volunteers who are interested in making either lap or twin-size blankets, Fidget mats/blankets, hats, sleeves, memory pillows, stuffed animals for our hospice patients. Hospice patients are on their end-of-life journey, and often are living in color-less nursing home rooms, or a hospital bed in a strange room of their home. Adding something beautiful to their lives during this time is an amazing way we can bring beauty and kindness from the community. Heartland has a strong relationship with our Veteran community and would particularly love blankets or quilts with a Veteran theme - either in patriotic colors & patterns, or with motifs from specific military branches. However, we would love and cherish ANY blankets we receive from volunteers, as all our patients deserve something cozy! Items need to be machine washable and come from smoke free environments and free of any pet fur.
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Gentiva Hospice is looking for craft volunteers who are interested in making either lap or twin-size blankets, Fidget mats/blankets, hats, sleeves, memory pillows, stuffed animals for our hospice patients. Hospice patients are on their end-of-life journey, and often are living in color-less nursing home rooms, or a hospital bed in a strange room of their home. Adding something beautiful to their lives during this time is an amazing way we can bring beauty and kindness from the community. Gentiva has a strong relationship with our Veteran community and would particularly love blankets or quilts with a Veteran theme - either in patriotic colors & patterns, or with motifs from specific military branches. However, we would love and cherish ANY blankets we receive from volunteers, as all our patients deserve something cozy! Items need to be machine washable and come from smoke free environments and free of any pet fur.
Date Posted: Jul 9, 2025
