Residential Home Health and Hospice

Address
601 Wyoming Avenue
Kingston, PA  18704

Phone
888-923-5842

Hours
Hours:  8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (office)
        24/7 (in-patient)

Contact
Volunteer Director:  Marty Carr

Description
DESCRIPTION:  Hospice services are designed especially to help
terminally ill patients and their families face the physical,
emotional, social, and spiritual aspects of their lives and the
patient's death.  Hospice recognizes dying as a normal process
and neither hastens nor postpones death.  Hospice believes that
through appropriate care and support, the person in the last
stage of life can live a life full of dignity and free of
discomforts.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:Residential Home Health and Hospice Volunteers provide an invaluable service to those who are nearing the end-stage of their lives and their family members.

Hospice Volunteers offer support in the following areas:

Companionship
Respite for caregivers
Running errands
Shopping
Light housekeeping (cleaning, laundry)
Meal preparation
Transportation
Bereavement support
Emotional support
Assembling mailings and informational packets
Writing condolence cards
Special projects
Hospice Volunteers are fully trained to better support the patient and family members. Volunteers receive training in matters from medical issues to spiritual concerns to psycho-social issues to bereavement. 

TIME COMMITMENT: 2-3 hours per week 

TRAINING/ORIENTATION:  Volunteers will be trained to learn the various aspects of the hospice interdisciplinary team and the roll of the volunteer.  Volunteers will also learn about the various hospice diagnoses.

Valid Clearances, TB test and drug screening are required.




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