Home About Volunteer Contact Us Careers Grief and Loss Donate (316) 265-9441 Want to make a difference in your community? Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice serves the needs of terminally ill patients and their families. The staff of Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice includes highly trained professionals from a variety of disciplines: Nurses, Home Health Aides, Pharmacists, Social Workers, Chaplains, and Bereavement Counselors. Alongside our paid Hospice staff, we are privileged to have the support of a dedicated group of people who give selflessly of their time and resources. These people are our Volunteers. Our volunteers find it personally gratifying, intellectually stimulating and emotionally meaningful to assist those in need at a critical point in their lives. They give of their time and talent providing patients and family members an additional layer of comfort and support. Volunteers repeatedly report that helping the terminally ill is not about dying but about living. A few ways you can help Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice include: Patient/Family Support Volunteers Are an integral part of the team, helping to ease the stress of the patient and family in a variety of ways: Reading to a patient who can no longer read on their own Playing board games, cards or watching TV with the patient Talking and sharing stories Pet Therapy—visiting patients with a certified therapy dog Being a presence in the home so the caregiver may have a break Providing presence for a patient alone in a facility Pharmacy Delivery Volunteers (Wichita Only) Delivering medications to patients at their home, the inpatient unit or long-term care facilities from the Wichita office. Staff Support Volunteers Are vital to the day-to-day operations of the agency in a variety of ways: Providing clerical and other office support to staff at our various locations Helping with large mailings (folding, labeling, stuffing envelopes) Inpatient Unit (IPU) Volunteers Welcome visitors and families and assist staff at the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Center at Via Christi-St. Francis in Wichita: Providing services at the reception desk Assisting staff, patients, families, and visitors Companionship for patients and family members Baking cookies, making coffee and iced tea, and taking these around to patients and families End-of-Life Support/Comfort Crossing Volunteers Providing comfort to the patient and their family at the bedside of an actively dying person. Providing a unique understanding of the dying process for the family and patient Preventing the patient and family members from being alone at the time of death Bereavement Volunteers Are trained to serve as a healing presence with the bereaved following the death of their loved one by making phone calls to bereaved family members Education Volunteers Provide information to the public about Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice by staffing information booths at health/education fairs within the service area Cooking and Baking Preparing casseroles (unbaked) and bringing them to our office where they are placed in our freezer and distributed by staff to patients and caretakers Making cookie dough balls (pkg. by the dozen) that are used at the IPU where volunteers bake and deliver to patients and families Sewing and Knitting Opportunities Opportunities are available for those who enjoy sewing and needlework to make hospital gowns, lap blankets, tactile/fidget mats, and bereavement items Memory Garden Volunteers Our Memory Garden is located in Wichita at the Collective (East of K-96 on East 21st Street) Groups or individuals can assist with general maintenance, planting flowers, and upkeep Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice is seeking volunteers to “share their gift of time.” If you have a heart for helping, we invite you to complete the volunteer application below and someone will be in touch with you. For additional information about our Volunteer Training Program, you may contact Sheila Shaw, Director of Volunteers, at 316-219-1720 or sheila.shaw@hynesmemorial.org Newsletter Privacy Notice Non Discrimination Copyright © 2021 Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice | Wichita Kansas