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Hospice Southeastern Connecticut Volunteers Graduate
Hospice Southeastern Connecticut announces the graduation of 14 new volunteers on Thursday, February 26, 2009. The volunteers spent up to 20 hours learning about hospice care and their role as volunteers for Hospice Southeastern Connecticut.
Hospice Southeastern Connecticut has over 130 active volunteers. They 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.
Graduating volunteers are the following: Administrative Volunteers - Gail Hull, Doris Oudkerk, and Donna Szymczyck; Patient Care Volunteers – Cecile Feldman, Hope Leuba, Harriet Rosenstein, Bob Salen, Brian Simpson and Yvette Wilbur; Massage Therapists – Lindsey Baah, Carmen Baez, Katey Kokomoor; Reiki Therapists – Cindy Corriveau, Julian Dzialo.
Volunteers for Hospice Southeastern Connecticut often speak of how honored they are to be able to help patients and their families during one of the most difficult times. As one volunteer said, “Volunteering for Hospice Southeastern Connecticut is my own spiritual stimulus package.” Rose Mazur, the widow of a Hospice Southeastern Connecticut patient, recently wrote, “I also will never forget the two volunteers who came and stayed with my husband when I had to leave our home to attend to important matters.”
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.
