Nightingale Society
“Women of Fame, Power & Influence”
The Nightingale Society is a volunteer group of concerned women who want to make an immediate difference in the lives of the less fortunate in our community. The Society was formed to meet the non-clinical, yet very real needs of home health and hospice patients on service through our Palm Desert and Riverside offices, who do not have the financial, family or social resources to meet them.
Examples of these needs include:
• Books, tapes, DVDs and CD players used for spiritual comfort.
• A Hospice patient without air conditioning who suffers through the summer heat, is provided with a fan or air conditioning unit.
• A grandmother living independently is crippled by arthritis and is unable to button her clothing, Velcro is exchanged for the buttons.
Special Projects:
The Fan Club, receives new fans, swamp coolers and air conditioning units donated by the community to help our patients and Seniors during the hot summer months.
Project Warmth, collects handmade quilts from a local Senior Center for distribution to our patients, families with babies and Hospice patients during the month of December.
Food Baskets are given to families in need during the Thanksgiving holiday.
The needs are simple, but meeting them will have a positive impact on the quality of life for the individual.
Riverside Chair: Dianne Mills
Palm Desert Chair: Linda Curea
To become involved with The Nightingale Society, please contact the Nightingale Liaison, Karen at (760)773-6262 or karen.mourhess@vna-ic.org
Members of The Nightingale Society pay a one-time membership fee of $100, and agree to help meet identified needs through their cash gifts, referral of services or contact names for donation of items or services.The fee is maintained in an Emergency Fund for patient needs.The terms "member", "members" or "membership" as used herein are descriptive only and do not have the meaning set forth in Sections 5056 or 5057 of the California Corporations Code (the "Code"), or any other provision thereof. These terms are not intended to suggest or convey any statutory rights or responsibilities of a "member" as that term is used throughout the Code.
