Rockbridge Area Hospice

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    • Our Services
    • The RAH Difference
    • Coverage Area
    • Is It Time For Hospice?
    • Paying For Hospice Care
    • Grief & Healing >
      • Grief to Growth
      • Grief During the Holidays
      • Grief and Healing Resources >
        • Common Responses to Loss
        • First Aid for Difficult Emotions
        • Grief During a Pandemic
    • We Honor Veterans
    • Complementary Therapies
    • Advance Directives
    • Connections+
  • Healthcare Professionals
    • Why Do HCP's Choose Rockbridge Area Hospice?
    • Admission Criteria
    • Clinical Reference Scales
    • Steps to Make a Referral
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    • Light Up a Life
    • Goad's Car Show
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Volunteer Opportunities

Rockbridge Area 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 Rockbridge Area Hospice or Connections 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 Rockbridge Area Hospice Volunteer or apply in person.  

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Rockbridge Area Hospice
315 Myers Street 
Lexington, VA 24450

Phone: (540) 463-1848
Fax: (540) 463-3175

Business Office Hours
Monday through Friday
​8:30 am to 5:00 pm ​
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