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Indy Hospice Volunteers - "No one should have to die alone...or be without a friend."



To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Our patients live in the following counties, and they need you!

  • Bartholomew
  • Boone
  • Brown
  • Hamilton
  • Hancock
  • Hendricks
  • Johnson
  • Madison
  • Marion
  • Monroe
  • Morgan
  • Putnam
  • Shelby
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Avon, Brownsburg, Danville, Plainfield, Greenwood, Martinsville, Mooresville, Eagle Creek, Speedway, Columbus, Edinburgh, Bloomington, Bean Blossom, Nashville

Can you see yourself in the faces of these hospice volunteers?








Can you see yourself
as a hospice volunteer?

What Can Hospice Volunteers Do?
Below are just a few very valuable things that hospice volunteers do to help people live comfortably at home and live out their life with respect and dignity. Your help of just 30-60 minutes minimum weekly, will leave a legacy.

Music Therapy
TV Repairman
Home Improvements
Sit & Talk
Watch TV with Patient
Feed the Dog or Cat
Wash the Dishes
Do a Load of Laundry
Retrieve / Sort Mail
Read the Newspaper
Read Books
 
Cook a Meal
Go to Library For Tapes/Books
Make a Greeting Card
Lay Out Clothes
Write Notes or Letters
Mow the Yard
Planting Flowers or Plants
Cut or Style Hair
Shovel Snow from Walkways
Sing Songs
Play Cards or Games

Hospice Volunteer Opportunities: Patient Support/Care, Bereavement Care, Administrative Assistants, Baking, Sewing and Music Therapy. There are many ways for you to volunteer your time and talents.

Requirements of Potential Patient Support/Care, Bereavement & Office Administrative Assistant Volunteers:
  • Interview
  • Completion of Application
  • Two Written References
  • Statement of Employment Eligibility
  • Background Check
  • Completion of Volunteer Training
  • TB Test or Chest X-ray with Negative Results
  • Completion of OSHA Training
  • HIPPA Training (patient care and office volunteers only)

A volunteer is trained for the area in which they choose to serve. There are four areas with different classifications within those areas.



I. Administration Volunteer - a person who wants to volunteer but desires no direct patient contact. They will provide administrative support in the office setting. Enhanced skill set can lead to a Patient Care Representative volunteer.

II. Patient Care Rep - Enhanced communications skill set necessary for this specialized volunteer opportunity.

III. Patient Care Volunteer - a person who wants to volunteer directly with patients, whether it is in the patient's own home, primary care giver's home, assisted living home, or nursing home. They require eight hours of orientation training.

IV. Bereavement Volunteer - an administrative volunteer who wants to support the Bereavement Department. The Bereavement Volunteer must have Patient Care Training and experience.


arrow Call Gail Deatline (317-788-0300) for further information about being a hospice volunteer.

arrow Call Danielle Hoke (317-887-6440) regarding this website or for information from a volunteer perspective.

arrow Complete the online form for contact information.




Orientation Training
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Continuing Education


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"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." -- Danny Thomas

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor is given by what he gave." -- Calvin Coolidge

"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give." -- Winston Churchill

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others." -- Ghandi

 

 

The last good thing that may happen in a person's life ... is a hospice volunteer.
Hospice ... Where the path of life transitions