By Maurice
If you’re looking for free medical equipment for seniors in Washington, you’re in the right place!This page is a complete resource for free medical equipment for the elderly in the state of Washington.Check out the resources below, and if you have a resource to add, please contact us!
Map of Free Medical Equipment in Washington
List of Free Medical Equipment in Washington
Washington Assistive Technology Act Program (WATAP) – Device Reuse: Evergreen Reuse Coalition
Program Description:
The Washington Assistive Technology Act Program (WATAP) provides resources and services to persons who face challenges related to disability and aging to help in the selection and use of assistive technology, also known as AT.
WATAP is located at the University of Washington Center for Technology and Disability Studies (UWCTDS), within the Center for Human Development and Disability (CHDD).
WATAP oversees and coordinates the Evergreen Reuse Coalition.The Evergreen Reuse Coalition is a statewide coalition enriching lives through effective reuse of assistive devices across Washington. Statewide collaborative relationships are leading to equipment being collected, refurbished, and redistributed by Coalition member organizations to those who need it.
- Service Area:Washington
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals? Yes/No
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
- 1Check with the Coalition member organizations to see if they provide free medical equipment.
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MS Helping Hands (MSHH) – Donor Closet
Program Description:
MSHH is a 501 (C)3 non-profit charity, the money that they take in above our expenses is made available to assist those in Washington, Northern Idaho, Montana and Alaska with Multiple Sclerosis.
- Service Area:Edmonds, Spokane, Tacoma
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals? No
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
- 1Check this site to see what we have on hand at our three MSHH Donor Closet locations (Edmonds, Spokane, Tacoma) – then come to see us.
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Thurston County Medical Equipment Bank – Free Medical Equipment & Supplies
Program Description:
- Service Area:Lacey area, Thurston County
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals? Yes
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
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Bridge Ministries – Meyer Medical Equipment Center (MMEC)
Program Description:
- Service Area:Bellevue and Tukwila
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals? Yes
- Audience served:
- people with disabilities
- Other Details:
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Hearing, Speech & Deaf Center (HSDC) – Assistive Technology Donations
Program Description:
HSDC’s Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services has three offices located in Seattle, Bellingham, and Tacoma.
They provide services to thirteen counties across the Greater Puget Sound Area:
1. Seattle Office (Puget Sound): King, Snohomish, Jefferson, Clallum, and North Kitsap (Bainbridge Island and north of Bremerton),2. Tacoma Office (South Sound): Pierce, Grays Harbor, Thurston, Mason, and South Kitsap (Bremerton and south of Bremerton),3. Bellingham Office (North Sound): Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, and Island.
- Service Area:the Greater Puget Sound Area
- Type of Medical Equipment: Assistive Listening Devices
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals? Yes/No
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
- 1Donations can be dropped-off at any of their three offices in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellingham or mailed to their Seattle office:Hearing, Speech & Deaf Centerc/o: Audiology1625 19th AveSeattle, WA 98122.
- 2As a nonprofit, they are able to offer access to hearing aids for all income levels, whether through our programs or through our community partners. – check if they also provide free devices
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University of Washington (UW) Speech and Hearing Clinic – UW Hearing Aid Assistance Program (HAAP)
Program Description:
The UW Speech and Hearing Clinic has created the UW Hearing Aid Assistance Program (HAAP) to provide patients in financial need with donated hearing aids.
Individuals who qualify will be fit with appropriate hearing aids from the HAAP bank by AuD graduate students under the direct supervision of a licensed audiologist within the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic.
- Service Area:Washington
- Type of Medical Equipment: all styles of used hearing aids and hearing aid supplies
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?No
- Audience served:
- UW Speech and Hearing Clinic patients
- Other Details:
- 1Patients that qualify must:a) demonstrate current Medicaid/WA Apple Health status.b) have a documented hearing loss based on an examination by a qualified hearing healthcare professional. There is no minimum hearing loss requirement.
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Push International – Equipment Distribution
Program Description:
Many families in Mexico have difficulty gaining access to mobility equipment like wheelchairs, crutches, canes, shower seats and more.
We collect donated equipment in the USA, ship it to our refurbishing center in Mazatlan, and adjust the equipment for people in need; free of charge. We provide custom seating options, as best we can with donated parts.
Over the past 12 years, we have donated equipment to over 5,200 families in need with the help of donors and a small volunteer staff.If you are in WA state, please contact us to donate equipment!
- Service Area:Washington
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?No (in Mexico)
- Audience served:
- Mexican people in need
- Other Details:
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A Caring Closet
Program Description:
A Caring Closet is a 501(c)(3) that provides gently used durable medical equipment (DME) to those in need at no cost: DME items include but not limited to hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, bath benches and adult briefs.
- Service Area:Clark County
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals? Yes
- Audience served:
- those in need
- Other Details:
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Your Medical Equipment Library” (YMEL) in Yelm
Program Description:
YMEL is registered as a nonprofit corporation with the State of Washington. The mission of the Library is to meet your needs; on one end it provides a place where you can donate no longer needed
medical equipment; on the other end that donated equipment is made available to those who can make use of it without cost, who in turn, can return it when they no longer need it.
- Service Area:Yelm
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?Yes
- Audience served:
- Other Details: YMEL began its new schedule at The American Legion Post #164 at 16733 103rd Ave S. Yelm from 9:00 to 11:00 am.
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Knights Community Hospital Equipment Lend Program
Program Description:
The Knights Community Hospital Equipment Lend Program (KC HELP) is a nonprofit 501 c(3) corporation that provides basic hospital type equipment needed for home convalescence to persons who lack the means to obtain such equipment.
- Service Area:the greater Tri-Cities, and across the Washington state region and beyond (including Wenatchee Valley)
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?Yes
- Audience served:
- people and families within the Tri-cities
- Other Details:
- 1We provide the equipment based on need. Especially to those whose insurance coverage does not cover in-home rental.
- 2KC Help is an organization of dedicated volunteers that have been helping people and families for many years here in the Wenatchee Valley. If you have items such as these that you would like to donate, please call 888-3050.
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Knights of Columbus Council 8297 – Knights Community Hospital Equipment Lend Program (KC HELP)
Program Description:
Council 8297 has established a KC HELP ministry in Kitsap County. In it’s early stages we are welcoming your donation of any available hospital or invalid service equipment such as wheel chairs, walkers, hospital beds, transfer benches, etc. We are also accepting donations to help with our expenses.
- Service Area:Kitsap County
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?Yes
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
- 1Their parent organization is KC Help – the entry above.
Wheatland Farm Equestrian Center – Francesco’s Closet
Program Description:
Here at Wheatland Farm, we offer an array of pediatric and teenage wheelchairs, pediatric adaptive equipment and adaptive toys on free loan to interested families.
We also accept donations of gently used pediatric equipment in good working order. This program allows the equipment to be used to its maximum potential and gives families access to devices that they may otherwise have no means to obtain.
- Service Area:Purceville
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?Yes
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
- 1Families or therapists can contact us to make arrangements to visit the loan closet to choose equipment. Our Equipment Lending Program volunteer Maria Grady, PT, helps to organize and facilitate the equipment for families in need. Maria may be emailed at: wheatlandfarmsecretary@gmail.com.
Helpline House – Medical Equipment Program
Program Description:
Wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes, toilet equipment and bath chairs are available to Bainbridge Island residents free of charge.
- Service Area:Bainbridge Island
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?Yes
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
- 1Helpline House’s Medical Equipment Program is Temporarily Closed. Helpline House is not loaning or accepting medical equipment during modified operations.
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Bellingham Central Lions Club – Al Boe Wheelchair Warehouse
Program Description:
The Wheelchair Warehouse loans durable medical equipment to folks in Whatcom and Skagit Counties.
Equipment loaned includes wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes, and bedside and bathroom helpers of all kinds.The Warehouse runs entirely on donated medical equipment.
- Service Area:Northwest Washington (Whatcom and Skagit Counties)
- Type of Medical Equipment:
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?Yes
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
Edith Bishel Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired – Low-Vision Equipment Donations
Program Description:
The Edith Bishel Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the blind and visually impaired in southeastern Washington.
In addition to financial donation, we also accept vehicles and used low-vision equipment such as CCTVs, talking watches, magnifiers, etc.
- Service Area:Southeastern Washington (Benton, Franklin, Walla Walla, Columbia, Yakima, and Klickitat counties)
- Type of Medical Equipment: Low-vision equipment
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?No
- Audience served:
- Other Details:
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Sno-Valley Senior Center – Home Equipment Loan Program (HELP)
Program Description:
The H.E.L.P. Center relies on donations made by Valley residents of home care equipment they no longer need. Available equipment includes: Wheelchairs, walkers, shower chairs, bedside commodes, canes, and more!
- Service Area:Snoqualmie Valley
- Type of Medical Equipment: Low-vision equipment
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?
- Audience served:
- Other Details: Located in the outbuilding next to the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital Rehabilitation Clinic: 38565 SE River Street, Snoqualmie. 425-831-3754.Equipment is accepted at Sno-Valley Senior Center, Mt. Si Senior Center, and Bridge Ministries. Please DO NOT bring equipment to the HELP Center.
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ALS Association Evergreen Chapter – Free Durable Medical Equipment for those living with ALS
Program Description:
The H.E.L.P. Center relies on donations made by Valley residents of home care equipment they no longer need. Available equipment includes: Wheelchairs, walkers, shower chairs, bedside commodes, canes, and more!
- Service Area:King County, Central Washington, North Sound, Greater Inland Empire
- Type of Medical Equipment: Low-vision equipment
- Accepts medical equipment donations? Yes
- Provides free medical equipment to United States individuals?
- Audience served:
- people with ALS
- Other Details: n/a
- Sources: n/a
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