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Hospice Touch is recruiting! Check out our Career Opportunities for a list of open positions.

01.17.12 Volunteer Opportunities
Free Hospice Touch Volunteer Training Sessions are scheduled for Compassionate, Caring, Consistent individuals looking for a way to fulfill New Year’s Resolutions to get involved in the New Year.

Four Consecutive Fridays in January and February, the 20th and 27th of January and the 3rd and 10th of February, from 9 am to 12:00 noon in Irvine. Call Ginger Askew at 888-327-1936 for exact location and to register for classes.

01.13.12 Six steps to getting started as a volunteer
Getting involved in Hospice Volunteering can be a little overwhelming at first. Here are six key steps to make sure you have a great volunteer experience...

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Welcome to Hospice Touch

Our goal is to provide the absolute best quality and most compassionate care to our patients and their families by providing pain and symptom management, psychological and spiritual support so they have peace, comfort and dignity. We are committed to our patients, their families, and our employees.

Mission Statement

Hospice Touch is dedicated to the highest quality of SERVICE delivered with compassion, care, and commitment to all we TOUCH.

Benefits of Hospice on quality of life

It has been shown that hospice and palliative care patients live an average of one month longer than terminally ill patients who do not choose hospice care. A 2007 study that considered six disease categories showed that four of the six had longer lengths of survival.

A study in 2010 published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that lung cancer patients receiving early palliative care lived 23.3% longer than those who put off palliative care. The study theorized that the outcome of earlier referral to hospice may improve the management of symptoms resulting in lengthened survival.

NHPCO Facts and Figures: Hospice Care in America.
Alexandria, VA: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, September 2010