Lee's Summit senior first high schooler to win statewide hospice volunteer award

Lee's Summit senior first high schooler to win statewide hospice volunteer award

NEWS"WHEN SOMEONE ENTERSHOSPICE CARE - IT'S ADIFFICULT TIME FOR BOTHTHE PATIENT AND THEIRFAMILY.SO ONE OF THE LASTTHINGS FAMILIES WANT - ISTHEIR LOVED ONE TO HAVELESS TIME WITH IN-HOMECARETAKERS.41 ACTION NEWS ANCHORGABRIELLA PAGANINTRODUCES US TO ATEENAGER - WHOENSURES PATIENTS GETTHE BEST CARE POSSIBLEIN THEIR FINAL DAYS.Carter Davis/Volunteer,IntegrityHome care and Hospice" if you have the ability to goout there and help and there'snothing that's preventing youfrom helping there's no reasonwhy you shouldn't be out therehelping in someway."IT'S THAT ATTITUDE - THATWON 17 YEAR OLD CARTERDAVIS - THE 2021 MISSOURIHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVECARE ASSOCIATION'SHEART OF HOSPICE:VOLUNTEER AWARD.THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOLSTUDENT TO WIN.MENZIE" he's above my typicalvolunteer I would say as far ashe just, he gets it."THE STIPULATION FOR THEAWARD?

SOMEONE WHOGOES ABOVE ANDBEYOND.Susan Menzie/VolunteerCoordinator" I nominated Carter becausehe's dependable he paysattention to detail, he doesanything that you ask him todoAND HE DOESN'T MINDDOING THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES WORK.MENZIE"It makes their care better Imean they are able to havenurses in their home forlonger, they're able to haveaids in their home for longer,they are able to have othervolunteers come and do thatand then all the rest of us areable to give them our bestbecause he's helping us to beready and prepared so it's toobad they don't all get to meetCarter!"DAVIS"I enjoy the fact that I knowI'mhelping in that aspect eventhough I'm not specificallythere talking to those peopleand helping them through theirhard timesA LOT OF A LITTLE CAN GOA LONG WAY AND A LOTOF WHAT CARTER DAVISDOES MAKES A BIGDIFFERENCE.MENZIE" I just think it's an exampleforwhat people look for in otherpeople, not just in volunteersand employees and friendsand that's what we look foranother people as people youcan rely on and count on and Iwant the world to know howgreat he is."SHE SAYS THAT'S SIMPLYHIS CHARACTER.DAVIS"If you can, and there'snothing hindering you, youmight as well help out and youmight as well do those sorts ofthings."IN LEE'S SUMMIT,GABRIELLA PAGAN,