Caring Hospice Services is a unique, holistic service designed to meet social, emotional, and spiritual, as well as the physical needs of patients and families as they face illness. Our mission is to coordinate patient and family service while respecting their choices, values and beliefs.

Description:
Nurses, social workers, chaplains, certified home health aides, volunteers and the patients' own physician work in concert with family caregivers to support the patient as a whole person with focus on comfort care - not cure. Our goal is to help our patients' sustain the best quality of life until he or she dies. Hospice affirms life. Hospice exists to provide support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable disease, so they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.

History:
Caring Hospice Services began in 1997 in Fort Washington, PA. Since then, Caring Hospice has opened offices in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Edison, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Caring Hospice Services is a Medicare and Medicaid certified program, JCAHO accredited and a member of the NHPCO.

Contact person: Margie Zimmer, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (732) 661-9058

Address:

1090 King Georges Post Road, Suite 703 Edison, NJ 08837 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.caringhospice.com

Miscellaneous Information

Does this opportunity allow for people completing community service hours?
	Yes

Overall Experience   
I have helped people in rehabilitation centers while my mother was there and I enjoyed working with them, the elderly.

I don't have any experience but I would love to visit with disabled and elderly people to enhance the life that they have. I, myself, am disabled and cannot work. I sit home and wish there were someone to talk to or share time with. posted by lorraine52 on October 31, 2008