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WHAT WE DO

EMBRACE Foundation Recycles DME.

Did you know?

Most Durable Medical Equipment (DME) isn’t reused in the United States. It’s thrown away.

EMBRACE repurposes donated DME items, such as braces, splints and crutches, for use in under-developed countries.

Your brace, wheelchair or splint helped you recover – now you can ensure that it will help someone else in need.

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All DME We Accept For Donation

Braces, Immobilizers, Slings & Splints

  • Knee
  • Wrist/Forearm
  • Arm/Elbow/Shoulder
  • Spine
  • Neck (Cervical Collar)
  • Lower Back

Patient Care

  • Wheelchairs
  • Walkers
  • Knee walkers
  • Crutches
  • Canes
  • Over the bed tables
  • Ace® Bandages
  • Bone Growth Stimulators
  • Foot & Ankle
  • Walker Boots
  • Air casts
  • Elastic or Neoprene Ankle Supports
  • Night Splint for Plantar Fasciitis
  • Anesthesia supplies
  • Casting materials
  • Catheters (suction, foley, and urethral. No cardiac or balloon)
  • Dressings (gauze, bandages, Band-Aids, 4 x 4’s, etc.)
  • EKG supplies (electrodes, recording paper, leads, etc.)
  • Electrosurgical supplies (cautery pencils, patient plates, etc.)
  • Endotracheal and tracheal tubes
  • Gloves (OR and exam)
  • Gowns (OR and exam, cloth only, no disposables)
  • IV supplies (catheter placement, butterflies, injection sites, extensions, no solutions)
  • Ostomy supplies
  • Over the bed tables
  • Q-tip applicators and containers
  • Scalpels and blades
  • Scrub/prep (surgical scrub, iodine, brushes, sponges)
  • Stainless steel containers
  • Stainless steel items: mayo stands and carts, cabinets, and kick buckets
  • Surgery instruments
  • Surgical tape
  • Surgery towels and drapes (cloth only, no disposables)
  • Sutures and wound closure supplies
  • Syringes/needles
  • Tongue depressors and containers
  • Yankauer suction tips and suction tubing
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How is DME Distributed?

EMBRACE Foundation donates much needed medical supplies and DME to Samaritan’s Purse for their Worldwide Medical Missions.

World Medical Mission® – The medical arm of Samaritan’s Purse, we place volunteer Christian physicians, dentists, and other medical personnel in mission hospitals and clinics around the world. We also staff a biomedical department and warehouse that provides critically needed medical equipment and supplies to medical mission facilities.