Hospice Southeastern Connecticut Volunteers Graduate

June 15, 2009 - On Saturday, 10 new Hospice Southeastern Connecticut volunteers graduated from a

training series where they learned about hospice care and their role as volunteers for Hospice Southeastern Connecticut. 

Hospice Southeastern Connecticut has over 110 active volunteers.  Volunteers visit patients in their homes and in skilled nursing facilities, as well as run errands, pick up medications, deliver equipment and offer respite for caregivers. Volunteers also help in the Hospice Southeastern Connecticut office in Norwich and at various fundraising events throughout the year.

Volunteer pet therapists, Reiki and Reflexology specialists, Healing Touch and massage therapists also play an important role in the care Hospice Southeastern Connecticut provides to those in need of quality end of life care.

Graduating volunteers are:  Mary deYoung (Pawcatuck), Coleen Fontaine (Jewett City), Tom Gilbert (N. Stonington),  Sheri King (Norwich), Karen Leif (Norwich), Suzanne Lozado (Norwich), Helen Lynch (Norwich), Rachel Perry (Waterford), Cecelia Sullivan (Oakdale), and Joan Wiles (New London).

Hospice Southeastern Connecticut is a community-based non-profit organization that provides quality care for people with life-limiting illnesses and support for their loved ones before and after death.  An interdisciplinary group of experts in medical care, pain management, spiritual and psychosocial support care for the patient’s daily needs.  Volunteers are specially trained in the hospice philosophy to offer support to patients and their families.

For more information on the volunteer program at Hospice Southeastern Connecticut, please call Denise Hawk at (860) 848-5699 or email dhawk@hospicesect.org.  The next volunteer training series will take place in September 2009.

 

Photo Caption: Hospice Southeastern Connecticut’s Newest Volunteers

L to R:  Mary deYoung, Coleen Fontaine, Helen Lynch, Tom Gilbert, Karen Leif, Sheri King.  Missing from photo:  Suzanne Lozado, Rachel Perry, Cecelia Sullivan and Joan Wiles

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