How You Can Help
Volunteer
You are needed...Join the VNHS Volunteer Program!
Feel the Joy!
Volunteers are an important complement to our health care professionals, administrators and office staff. If you have a few hours a week and a will to make a difference, we invite you to join our dedicated volunteers in service to our community.
Be a hospice volunteer
Provide companionship, lend a listening ear, run an errand, prepare a meal, read a book, write a letter, share a laugh, treasure a memory or simply be a much needed and appreciated presence who allows respite for a loving caregiver.Volunteer training classes are offered for residents of Burlington, Gloucester and Camden counties, who are interested in working with the VNHS Hospice, a service that focuses on comfort, support and dignity in caring for the terminally ill. The hospice program seeks volunteers aged 18 or older to visit with patients and their families or to assist in office work.
- Provide Bereavement Support Assist with hand-written sympathy cards and letters to bereaved family members. Remind survivors of memorial services and bereavement support meetings. Assist with memorial services.
- Be a Comfort Caller Volunteers make support calls to family members identified by VNHS staff, providing a compassionate ear for patients and families.
- Lend Your Office Skills Type, file, assemble information packets, or provide telephone support. Send birthday cards and help with mailings.
- Reach Out to the Community Assist with greeting and clerical activities at health fairs, community events and flu immunization clinics.
Bring the joy of volunteering into your life!
Call Macleod Carre, MSW, at 609-267-7417,or Contact Us.