In Georgia we are lucky. We have this place. They actually make rounds to different facilities to pick stuff up. I et there are other such organizations. Too tired to search it out for anyone right now tho. Perhaps ifyou contact this place they can direct you to someplace closer to home.
Susan
Med Share international:
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> i would bet any of the Indian Reservations could use donated supplies
> for their clinics. we did a mission trip to the Standing Rock Indian
> reservation in ND this summer and they are in short supply of
> everything.
>
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>11/15/2005 2:52:55 PM >>>
>
> I'm glad to see that this issue of discarding perfectly good supplies
> bothers someone else.
>
> I have collected boxes and bags (and bags!) of tubing, gloves, needles,
> etc
> and kept for the Mercy Ship...but it stopped coming.
>
> When I hear about someone in our community going somewhere on a mission
> or
> even just personal travel, I ask them if they would like to take a box
> over
> to donate.
>
> I have collected and sent supplies to Fort Lewis (army base) because I
> heard they were having shortages of everything. They wrote back to
> stop
> because they didn't need anymore.
>
> I take over bags of stuff to one of our physician clinic's oncology
> and
> short stay nurses because they have had to cut back spending so much
> (and
> down river of that, less incease in nurses wages) and they really
> appreciated the supplies. But this one is very, very tricky because in
> our
> case, the hospital is only supposed to donate to non-profits.
>
> I've even gone so far as to put art made out of medical throw-aways in
> our
> hospital's annual art show. (That's embarrassing to confess, but
> they're
> actually pretty cool and people certainly comment on my entries!)
>
> It truly bothers me that all these wonderful and costly items just get
> tossed. I'd LOVE to hear others ideas and/or addresses of places they
> know
> of who would use them
>
> Thanks again Ann,
>
> Barbara Van Slyke, RN, BSN, OCN, CRNI
> Outpatient Infusion
> Bay Area Hospital
> Coos Bay, Oregon
>
>
>
