Volunteers
Volunteer Voice: The Joy of Giving
August 11, 2010
Don’t you feel like a million bucks after you leave the hair salon…a little more pep in your step? Everyone wants that feeling of beauty and self-pride, but more so when our health starts to fail. It can restore dignity and lift the spirit like nothing else. That is the ‘gift’ I try to give our Hospice of the Comforter patients....
A Tale of Two Authors
August 11, 2010
A volunteer helps a patient who shares his passion for writing....
So You Want to Be a Hospice Volunteer!
August 10, 2010
Hospice of the Comforter continues to grow in the number of patients it serves and so do the number of new volunteers. In a coordinated effort between the Volunteer Department and the volunteer leadership, all volunteer applicants are now interviewed by volunteers rather than staff. This was decided...
Director's Message
August 10, 2010
Volunteer Don Gillis, one of our Volunteer Program Leaders, recently asked me a great question...
Give the Gift of Listening
June 18, 2010
In the fall of 1995, I was about to fulfill a desire that had long been in my heart – becoming a hospice volunteer. One of my first patients was a lady in her 90s who was brought up in Austria just prior to the German invasion. She recalled how...
Trust Me, Bob is Right...
May 05, 2010
A volunteer learns what our President, CEO and Chaplain Robert G. Wilson means when he says...
A Call to Action for Ambassador Volunteers
May 05, 2010
Volunteer Bill Benner decided after his wife's death to do whatever he could to help others avoid the same fate of not using hospice services early enough...
Connecting in the Disconnect
February 15, 2010
A patient's story-telling brings him closer to his volunteer....
A Mentoring Story
February 15, 2010
The story of how an experienced volunteer mentored a new volunteer so that a caregiver's respite needs could be met....