Please contact us if you'd like to know about volunteer opportunities at LMHPCO. If you'd like to volunteer for a hospice near you, please use our hospice locator to find out what's in your area and then contact them directly.
Here are just a few ways you can help your local hospice:
Sitting and providing companionship to patients and giving caregivers "a break"
Shopping, buying groceries and run errands for patients
Cutting and style hair for patients
Card writing and Mailings
Organize supplies in the supply closet
Delivering supplies and picking up items for grief camp
Bereavement calls and notes
Taking their Pet Therapy dogs to visit patients
Buying clothes and/or furniture for needy patients and their families
Taking food to patients and families
Facilitating bereavement support groups and providing bereavement support Creating programs for Memorial Services
Picking up videos for visiting children
Baking cakes for the annual bake sale and providing holiday meals for patients and their families
Baking goodies for our patients and volunteers who work in the office
Offering Spiritual support and taking Communion to Catholic patients
Ordained minister who donates many hours each week seeing patients
Teaching new volunteers and training high school students to be volunteers
Putting together Patient Handbooks, Admission packets, etc.
Filing charts
Balancing the Association/Foundation's checkbook
Working fundraisers and decorating for the Angel Luncheon
Light housekeeping
Fixing light lunches/ dinners for patients and families
Helping patients and families pack up belongings when transferring to nursing homes.
Sending Birthday Greetings
Translating for Spanish-speaking patients
Attorney who provides legal services
Bringing food to the staff
Talking to the community about Hospice
Helping with Rainy Days and Rainbows as Buddies for support staff
Taking poinsettias to patients at Christmas
Completing annual health screenings and competencies
Attending teleconferences and conferences
Making cards and "happy's" for our patients each month
Craft-making for the different Holidays and Seasons:
For Thanksgiving, wooden turkeys, with assorted suckers for their tail feathers
For Christmas, glass vases filled with potpourri and Christmas lights
For Valentines, baby food jars decorated with hearts with a votive candle in the middle
For the spring, Magnolias out of spoons and leaves
