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Volunteer Opportunities

ConnectionsPlus Healthcare + Hospice offers many different volunteer opportunities that allow volunteers to choose a role in which they feel comfortable and fulfilled. 

Administrative Volunteers 
Provide support in the office: answering the phone, preparing mailings. data entry, filing, scanning, special projects. 

Bereavement Volunteers 
Visits, phone calls, support groups, memorial services and send bereavement mailings. 

Direct Patient Care Volunteers 
Visits the patients and their families at home, nursing homes. assisted living facilities. Pays a friendly visit; relieves a family caregiver for an afternoon out, accompanies a patient to the hair salon, grocery store, etc. Reads aloud, listens to memories, be the high point in someones day. 

Hair Care Volunteers 
Volunteers with a current cosmetology license provide haircuts, shampoos and styling to Rockbridge Area Hospice patients. 

Massage Volunteers 
Volunteers with current massage therapy license provide friendly touch and massage to patients of Rockbridge Area Hospice. 

Music Therapy Volunteers
Volunteers take out pre-programmed iPod's or CD's to hospice and AIC patients. They may sit and enjoy the music with the patient or allow the patient to reminiscence by listening their self.  

Pet Therapy Volunteers 

Screened and trained pets and their volunteer owners visit patients and provide socialization, comfort, life review, etc.

Personal Pampering Volunteers
Trained volunteers apply lotion, polish nails and otherwise raise patients’ esteem.

Photography Volunteers
Taking professional pictures of the patient and family, generally providing a picture CD to the family.

Veteran Volunteers 
Address special end-of-life needs by replacing lost medals, linking veterans to VA benefits, performing life review, visiting on Veteran’s Day, educating veterans organizations, etc.

Vigil Volunteers 
Help ensure that no patient dies alone by being present at the final stages of a patient’s life.

Signup online to become a ConnectionsPlus Volunteer or apply in person.  

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315 Myers Street
Lexington, VA 24450

Phone:  (540) 463-1848
Fax: (540) 463-3175
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Regional Office 
537 Main Street
Clifton Forge, VA 24422

Phone: (540) 862-8820
​Fax: (540) 862-8822


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  • Patients & Families
    • Our Services
    • Our Difference
    • Coverage Area
    • Is It Time For Hospice?
    • Paying For Hospice Care
    • Grief During the Holidays
    • Grief & Healing >
      • Grief to Growth
      • Grief and Healing Resources >
        • Common Responses to Loss
        • First Aid for Difficult Emotions
        • Grief During a Pandemic
    • We Honor Veterans
    • Advance Directives
    • Serious Illness >
      • FAQs
  • Healthcare Professionals
    • Why Do HCP's Choose Rockbridge Area Hospice?
    • Admission Criteria
    • Clinical Reference Scales
    • Steps to Make a Referral
  • Community Events
    • 3 Ways to Support Us
    • Ducks In a Row
    • Truck Raffle
    • Speakers Bureau
    • 2022 Business Sponsors
  • Volunteer
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • The Gift of Time
    • Volunteer Forms
  • Donate
    • Donation Page
    • Vehicle Donations
    • Brick by Brick
    • Amazon Smile
    • Legacy Society >
      • Olivia's Story
  • ABOUT US
    • CONTACT
    • Our Mission
    • Board of Directors
    • Join Our Team
    • Who We Are
    • Service Area