ok here is one based in CA that I found pretty readily using google key words "charitable medical supplies"
happy recycling/donating!
Susan
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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
>
>
>
