Programs
General Support: Volunteers are available to provide support for patients and their families in many ways, which include:
- Providing transportation or running errands to and from the grocery store, post office, doctors office, etc.
- Friendly visiting to keep the patient company, talk with them, read to them, or sit quietly beside them to offer comfort. Family members can use this time to run errands or just get some needed sleep or rest.
HosPets: Therapy Pet Program, working with trained and registered HosPet Team members to make visits both in the Hospice Home and in the homes of hospice patients, by request of patient.
Complimentary Comfort Care (CCC): Healing Touch, Reiki, Massage, Chiropractic care (doctor ordered) in Hospice Home and in the field, by request of patient, staff, social workers, etc.
Musical Transitions: Program using volunteers who are trained in therapeutic music, including Music for Healing and Transitions. Volunteers are available for bedside vigils for patients and families on request.
Lifetime Legacies: Volunteers record life stories of patients and families to archive the history and legacies of hospice patients. Both written and DVD’s of interviews are made available to families and patients.
Coffee and Jam: Volunteers, staff and family members bring their instruments and join in the jam every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the Earlene Howard Hospice Home.
Honor the Gift: Program providing various donated musical instruments for Hospice Home patients to use on a check-out basis (guitar, banjo, and mandolin). Instruments may be used by patients, families, and staff.
11th Hour Volunteering: A program where volunteers attend bedside vigils for patients in nursing homes and in the Hospice Home so that everyone who wants companionship in the last hours has a friend present.
Art by Request: Self-directed therapeutic art program using donated art supplies donated by Northwest Arkansas Community College Art Club, including drawing pads, colored pencils, markers, charcoal, scrapbooking materials,watercolor and pastels, mats and frames. Items are available by request.
Music by Request: Self-directed therapeutic music program using Hospice Home CD players and optional head-phones. CD’s for relaxation, etc. are kept in a central location to be used by Hospice Home patients as requested by patients, social worker or staff.
Working Our Way Through: Visitors to the Earlene Howard Hospice Home can have the opportunity to workout at a local gym at no cost, while they visit their loved ones in the home.Two free passes are available to check out through your Social Worker. (Free on-going memberships are offered through the generosity of Fuel Fitness in Springdale.)
Homeward Bound: Professional photographers will come to the COL campus to photograph patients and families upon request, at no cost to the families. This program offers family and patient photographs, patient and spouse photos, and last photos. Special arrangements can be made to include those who cannot travel to the campus.
Transforming Moments: We will work to provide Transforming Moments: whether it be to attend a baseball game, receive a visit from a local dignitary, or just go out with a companion for a special evening. Volunteers will make every effort to work with the staff and community to make
Transforming Moments happen.