Cleaning Out Attic or Basement? Donate Your Used Home Health Equipment to St. Louis HELP

Why not donate any crutches, canes, walkers or wheelchairs you don’t need to the non-profit St. Louis HELP organization (http://www.stlhelp.org), which reconditions and freely loans home health equipment to of people who need it.

You’ll get a tax deduction for those donations and help keep used medical equipment out of landfills.

“We accept donations of almost every type of home medical equipment in good working condition,” says St. Louis HELP Executive Director Laura Cannon Singer, who founded the group in 2008. “We revitalize and clean the equipment so it’s ready to loan to needy people or their caregivers,” she says.

“There is a huge need in the community for the home medical equipment we provide. We are always working to restock our inventory of donated items,” she says. “Nothing goes to waste. We divert tons of used medical equipment from landfills every year because we repair, clean and loan it rather than throw it away.”

“We provide this equipment at no charge to anyone who needs it, including those recovering from accident, injury or illness. This can make the difference between a person living independently or living a life of dependence and immobility.”

In August 2014, St. Louis HELP received a prestigious “Point of Light Award” from Points of Light, the volunteer management organization founded in 1990 in response to President George Bush’s call for volunteer community service.

St. Louis HELP is headquartered at a warehouse in the St. Louis suburb of Olivette. Staffed almost entirely by volunteers, the organization freely loans about $1.2 million in donated, reconditioned equipment every year to people who can keep it for as long as necessary.

Home medical equipment available for free loan include these and other items that can be picked up at St. Louis HELP’s warehouse after recipients sign simple forms (or, in some cases, get a recommendation from their physician):

· Wheelchairs – manual and electric

· Scooters

· Walkers, Crutches and Canes

· Shower Chairs, Shower Stools, and Tub-Transfer Benches

· Portable Commodes

· Elevated Toilet Seats

· Shower, Tub and Wall Grab Bars

· Hospital Beds

· Lift Chairs

· Stair Lifts

· Reachers and Grabbers

Do a good deed to celebrate the New Year. To learn more, visit the website http://stlhelp.org/ or call St. Louis HELP at 314.567.4700.

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