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Evanston, IL 60201
Gentiva Hospice is seeking volunteers to provide companionship and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families in your community. Patient Visit Volunteers provide conversation, leisure activities or a quiet, caring presence. You may also use your education and/or area of expertise to aide our patients and program. Assignments can include art therapy; horticultural therapy; music for relaxation; pet therapy; and reminiscence / life review techniques such as recording oral histories, storytelling and scrapbooking. Tell us how you would like to share your skills, talents and ideas. Patient Visit Volunteers may also provide the opportunity for respite to caregivers when a patient resides at home, allowing a caregiver to take time away to care for him/herself. Volunteers with Gentiva Hospice are an important part of a larger team who recognize that psychological, spiritual, and social services, as well as medical/clinical care, can contribute to an improved life quality for patients in the last stages of life. We offer an extensive orientation and ongoing volunteer support. Gentiva Hospice serves patients and their families in a wide range of communities, and will likely offer volunteer opportunities and training close to your home.
Date Posted: 2025-06-27
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Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Gentiva Hospice provides extraordinary service and compassionate hospice care to terminally ill patients and their families throughout the Chicagoland and Suburban areas. Our office is centrally located in Arlington Heights, IL. Although this volunteer opportunity does not have direct contact with our patients and families you can still provide support from behind the scenes! Our administrative staff are always in need of support with reception of screening phone calls and relaying messages along with clerical skills such as data entry, filing & faxing, mailing, etc. This opportunity is available for any amount of time as we are flexible to meet your schedule! We have staff members in the office Monday through Friday from 8am - 5pm and sometimes on the weekends. This is a great way to obtain skills for your resume or hours for college credit as well!
Date Posted: 2025-04-14
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Flexible Schedule
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Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Gentiva Hospice focuses on providing the best care to terminally ill patients and their families while focusing on comfort, symptom management and ensuring quality of life. Volunteering with Gentiva Hospice provides the opportunity to be there for someone when they may need it most, at the end of life. The relationships you build with Gentiva's patients and families are sure to impact your life as much as it does theirs. Patient Visiting Volunteers provide conversation and supportive companionship, participation in leisure activities, or a quiet, caring presence. We encourage our volunteers to share their special interests in reading; craft work and art; music; life review such as recording oral histories and scrapbooking; and more. Tell us how you would like to share your skills, talents - your ideas are welcome! Being a Gentiva Hospice volunteer means being part of an interdisciplinary team that focuses on the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their families. Gentiva Hospice offers an extensive orientation and ongoing support for all of our volunteers.
Date Posted: 2025-06-11
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Flexible Schedule
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Elgin, IL 60177
Gentiva Hospice is seeking volunteers to provide companionship and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families in your community. Patient Visit Volunteers provide conversation, leisure activities or a quiet, caring presence. You may also use your education and/or area of expertise to aide our patients and program. Assignments can include art therapy; horticultural therapy; music for relaxation; pet therapy; and reminiscence / life review techniques such as recording oral histories, storytelling and scrapbooking. Tell us how you would like to share your skills, talents and ideas. Patient Visit Volunteers may also provide the opportunity for respite to caregivers when a patient resides at home, allowing a caregiver to take time away to care for him/herself. Volunteers with Gentiva Hospice are an important part of a larger team who recognize that psychological, spiritual, and social services, as well as medical/clinical care, can contribute to an improved life quality for patients in the last stages of life. We offer an extensive orientation and ongoing volunteer support. Gentiva Hospice serves patients and their families in a wide range of communities, and will likely offer volunteer opportunities and training close to your home.
Date Posted: 2025-06-11
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Flexible Schedule
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Huntley, IL 60142
Gentiva Hospice is seeking volunteers to provide companionship and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families in your community. Patient Visit Volunteers provide conversation, leisure activities or a quiet, caring presence. You may also use your education and/or area of expertise to aide our patients and program. Assignments can include art therapy; horticultural therapy; music for relaxation; pet therapy; and reminiscence / life review techniques such as recording oral histories, storytelling and scrapbooking. Tell us how you would like to share your skills, talents and ideas. Patient Visit Volunteers may also provide the opportunity for respite to caregivers when a patient resides at home, allowing a caregiver to take time away to care for him/herself. Volunteers with Gentiva Hospice are an important part of a larger team who recognize that psychological, spiritual, and social services, as well as medical/clinical care, can contribute to an improved life quality for patients in the last stages of life. We offer an extensive orientation and ongoing volunteer support. Gentiva Hospice serves patients and their families in a wide range of communities, and will likely offer volunteer opportunities and training close to your home.
Date Posted: 2025-06-27