Greater St. Louis Volunteer Connection
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Are you interested in becoming a vigil volunteer? Contact Brenda McGarvey 618-346-1111 or 314-645-8648 (bmcgarvey@unityhospice.com) to learn more about this program. Please call to find out when our next training will be held.
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Volunteers are a valuable part of the Unity Hospice team. Our volunteers provide important services to patients and their families. The hospice concept is “everyone deserves to die a quiet, peaceful, and dignified death”. We believe their loves ones deserve to receive important support that is needed during this time as well.
Unity Hospice has always, and will always, care for all terminally ill people, regardless of their ability to pay. We provide services to the destitute as well as the affluent. Volunteers enable us to fulfill this mission.
As a volunteer, you have the choice in which area you would like to volunteer. You are never asked to do something you are not comfortable doing. Some typical tasks are:
* providing companionship for patients and families
* providing emotional support for patients and families
* encouraging the patient to tell their life stories
* playing cards or games with the patient
* remaining with patient during scheduled periods of absence of the primary care person
* reading to the patient
* calling and/or visiting families in bereavement
* performing office work
* using your talents for the benefit of hospice patients and their families
* accompanying a patient on their journey through the process of dying
By being a volunteer, you can gain personal satisfaction from knowing you have made a difference in the life of another. We connect willing hearts and ears to those that need to be heard!
Contact us: Brenda McGarvey
618-346-1111 or 314-645-8648
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