{"id":660,"date":"2017-12-05T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:00:20","slug":"volunteers-spread-their-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/05\/volunteers-spread-their-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Spread their Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_661\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661\" src=\"http:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P1020700-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Rankovic\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P1020700-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P1020700-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/P1020700-sm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Rankovic is a volunteer with the Friendly Visiting program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Patients at Mount Sinai and Bridgepoint are now benefiting from the compassionate touch of Circle of Care\u2019s volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>This past year, Mount Sinai Hospital\u2019s Family Health Team and Bridgepoint\u2019s Palliative Care Unit began matching patients with our specially trained volunteers in a cross-site initiative that brings comfort and support to patients and their family members. Riding on the success of our popular Friendly Visiting program\u2014which provides companionship and relief from social isolation\u2014patients from Mount Sinai\u2019s Family Health Team are partnered with a volunteer who can assist with everyday errands, such as trips to medical appointments and shopping, or who can simply spend some time visiting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pain and loneliness of isolation is so real,\u201d says Friendly Visiting volunteer Ana Rankovic. \u201cI want to give back to marginalized members of society, and this experience has been an ideal way to increase my community involvement. Also, my own life has been enriched with this meaningful new relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers also provide practical, emotional and spiritual support for patients of Bridgepoint\u2019s Palliative Care Unit who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Through this partnership, volunteers help make these difficult passages more manageable and meaningful for people facing end of life, and for their loved ones who benefit from respite provided by these visits.<\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to volunteer with Circle of Care can contact Volunteer Resources at 416-635-2860 x 375 or volunteer@circleofcare.com for more details.<\/p>\n<p>This story is featured in Circle of Care\u2019s Annual Report 2016-2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients at Mount Sinai and Bridgepoint are now benefiting from the compassionate touch of Circle of Care\u2019s volunteers. This past year, Mount Sinai Hospital\u2019s Family Health Team and Bridgepoint\u2019s Palliative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteer.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}