To provide compassionate care and support to patients, their families and the community of Venice. A volunteer, in out organization, brings a lifetime of skill sets to be applied in the furtherance of our service philosophy. It represents an oppurtunity for a volunteer to "payback" or, if you will, "pay forward" to those patients or families in the Venice community, who may be in need of the support we can provide.
Our organization began as a hospital auxillary to the Venice Hospital, in 1951 by a group of women (wives of doctors, businessmen and other prominent women) from the Venice community. It developed and expanded throughout the years as they assumed more and more functions within the hospital serving the staff and patients of the communit.