Volunteer visiting service for patients of St. Mary's Hospital

The volunteers of our hospital visiting service have made it their mission to bring joy and variety to everyday hospital life. When you're sick, it's hard. When you're sick and lonely, it's twice as hard. Supposedly small services such as sensitive conversations or walks together have a healing effect, especially on people who are ill or in distress.

At St. Mary's Hospital, pastoral care is available to patients as an attentive listener and comforting companion. This personal encounter from "person to person" is always interesting and enriching. This is also the feeling of the volunteers of our hospital visiting service, who come to the wards once a week and offer themselves as conversation partners or companions for walks.

With these simple gestures, the volunteers make a significant contribution to the human atmosphere of our hospital and thus also to the recovery process of our patients. What they give, they get back in very different ways.

• Attention and time for conversations
• Running small errands
• Reading aloud
• Walks in the garden
• Giving hope in difficult situations

• About 10 hours of time per month
• Joy in dealing with people
• Willingness to be touched by illness and suffering
• Openness for exchange in the monthly discussion group

What you get for your commitment

• Enrichment through interesting conversations
• Getting to know many different people
• Participation in the diverse program of events at the hospital (medical lectures, festivities)
• Insurance coverage and travel allowance
• 1x weekly free meal in the hospital cafeteria