Provides information and referral on the various kinds of cancer and treatment options and local resources, support, and assistance for medical equipment, prostheses, and wigs. Website provides information on cancer prevention, reducing cancer risk, cancer types and treatment options, support programs and resources, and cancer research.

Cancer Information and Referral offered by American Cancer Society

Provides information and referral on the various kinds of cancer and treatment options and local resources, support, and assistance for medical equipment, prostheses, and wigs.

Programs that pay for or provide internal orthopedic devices (such as hip and knee implants, spinal fusion implants, fracture fixation devices and reconstructive joint devices or bone matrix devices) to provide stability or correct problems that currently exist there; or external orthotic appliances such as back and leg braces, corsets, splints, heel cups, arch supports, insoles and other equipment that is prescribed to remediate problems caused by fractures, arthritis, bone disease or disorders of the back, hips, spine, hands and other extremities.

Orthopedic/Orthotic Devices

Programs that pay for or provide and train recipients in the use of artificial arms, hands, feet, legs and portions of legs, some of which are battery operated and utilize the movement of remaining muscle groups to control the strength and direction of motion.

Prosthetic Devices

Programs that pay for or provide seat supports, back supports, pelvic supports, head and neck supports, trunk supports, arm supports, leg supports, foot supports, cushions or therapeutic seats for individuals with disabilities who need special equipment to sit comfortably and in a desired position. Also included are programs that provide car seats that have been adapted for use by children with disabilities.

Seating/Positioning Aids

Programs that pay for or provide hairpieces for cancer victims and other individuals who have lost their hair due to the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation therapy or as a result of a condition such as alopecia areata.

Wigs

Programs that maintain information about community resources that are appropriate for a specific target group or human services sector (for example, youth programs or addiction services) and which link individuals who are in need of specialized services with appropriate resources and/or which provide information about community agencies and organizations that offer specialized services.

Specialized Information and Referral

Provides free medical equipment including wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, bath seats, etc as inventory allows. People who are in need of equipment can call Neighbors Helping Neighbors to check inventory status.Delivery is available if necessary. There is no requirement for equipment to be returned.

Durable Medical Equipment Loan offered at Faith in Action - The HUB

Provides free medical equipment including wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, bath seats, etc as inventory allows. People who are in need of equipment can call Neighbors Helping Neighbors to check inventory status.

Programs that accept first aid kits, bandages and other medical dressing, ostomy supplies, incontinence supplies, compression hosiery, hernia supports, bed pans and other medical supplies and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other community-based organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve. Also included are programs that are accepting COVID-19 related supplies including hand sanitizer, disposable gloves, face masks, face shields and personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers.

Medical Supplies Donation Programs

Programs that collect medical equipment and supplies (such as sickroom equipment, hospital beds, monitoring devices, resuscitation equipment, respiratory aids, incontinence supplies and first aid kits) as they become available and distribute whatever they have on hand to people who need them. Because acquisition of these materials is intermittent, it is difficult to specify exactly which items may be available at any given time.

Occasional Medical Equipment/Supplies

Programs that accept powered or manual wheelchairs, refurbish them if necessary, and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other community-based organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve.

Wheelchair Donation Programs

Programs that provide special chairs with large wheels, some of which are power driven, that are used to transport patients or to provide increased mobility for people who are partially paralyzed or otherwise unable to walk. Also included are other types of personal wheeled transportation such as the Amigo.

Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility

Programs that accept canes, crutches, walkers and other walking aids, refurbish them if necessary, and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other community-based organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve.

Walking Aid Donation Programs

Programs that pay for, loan, or otherwise provide access to aids such as canes, gait trainers, single or double crutches, or walkers for people who need a means of support while walking in order to be fully mobile.

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Cancer Information and Referral offered by American Cancer Society

Durable Medical Equipment Loan offered at Faith in Action - The HUB