Our carefully selected and well-trained volunteers work alongside our professional staff to support our patients and families. They provide comfort, non-medical care and compassion to our patients and their families. They perform tasks such as visiting or calling our patients and families, having conversations, reading aloud, listening to music together. They help at our inpatient centers as vigil volunteers or serve on our pet therapy team. Direct care volunteers are required to take background checks and participate in initial hospice volunteer training and basic orientation.