September 15, 2003

Jameson Hospice Volunteer Training Program Announced

                       New Castle, PA – Marlene Gruey, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator, announced the beginning of a 5-week Jameson Hospice Volunteer Training Program. Volunteers who support Jameson Hospice’s ideals and goals are needed to provide respite, companionship and bereavement services and to assist with fundraising, office and clerical duties.  The Jameson Hospice Volunteer Training program begins on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 through October 28, 2003 from 6 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.  For more information please call Marlene Gruey at 724-656-4250 Ext. 115.  Hospitals depend on volunteers to fill vital roles in patient care and support services.  Volunteers are valuable members of the hospital community, respected and appreciated by staff and patients. 
Volunteers add a lift that no one else can supply because he or she is willing, eager, enthusiastic and cares enough to give both time and energy.  

Hospice provides supportive and palliative care to terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of six

 months or less.  It is curative care.  The fundamental task of Hospice is to help people come to

terms with the notion that they are going to die and to support patients and families towards a

peaceful life closure. 

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