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How to Volunteer

Notre Dame Hospice Care provides comfort, compassion, companionship, and support to patients nearing end of life and their families, when a treatment or cure for an underlying disease is no longer available. Services are delivered by an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals who focus on addressing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs to improve quality of life.

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Quality of life
Emotional, physical and spiritual support

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Life expectancy of 6 months or less
Covered under Medicare, Medicaid, and most major insurances
Pain management to allow patient to die with dignity

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No life expectancy limit
Covered under traditional medical insurance or Medicare
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Our interdisciplinary team is comprised of physicians, nurse practitioners, licensed nurses, certified home health aides, social workers, spiritual counselors, specially trained volunteers, music and massage therapists, and bereavement specialists.
While Notre Dame Hospice embraces the Catholic healthcare tradition, we are committed to providing services for patients and families of all faiths with dignity and respect for individual needs and choice. The hospice team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Our Hospice team provides hospice services in personal homes, other nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, or wherever patients call home.
To view our Notice of Privacy Practices, please <a href="https://cms.notredamehealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Notice-of-Privacy-Practices-Hospice-and-Palliative-Care.pdf">click here</a>.

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The Notre Dame Hospice volunteer training program offers on going education, supervision, and support to ensure the success of everyone involved. Because our volunteers often have so many other commitments, the orientation process is as streamlined as possible. Orientation can be completed as a self-study, online, or within a structured group setting.

To volunteer for Adult Hospice Care, please complete this application and return it to us at the address or email below.

ADULT HOSPICE CARE

To volunteer for Pediatric Hospice Care, please complete this application and return it to us at the address or email below.

PEDIATRIC HOSPICE CARE

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Notre Dame Health Care is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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