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Check your local senior center or nurses lending closet.
You could also drop it off at a donation site. Salvation Army, Savers, Goodwill..
Worst case put it out on garbage day and a metal scrapper will take it and sell it for the value of the metal.
Also contact some of the larger churches in your area and find out if they have a ministry which provides this type of thing to needy and aging members.
So I finally gave up, took it apart, and had a neighbor haul it away & sell it for recycle metal. Good news was, I was able to take it apart in about 2 hours, using only a socket wrench & a pair of pinch nose pliers (to pull the springs off the bottom).
If you have a Lion's Club in your area, they'd take it, but all the clubs within 50 miles of me that I checked had closed. Try clubs like that. Otherwise, scrap it.
Check your village they may have a "Nurses Lending Closet" or there are some places that will take furniture and will pick it up but again they will not take the mattress.
Local Senior center might know of someone that could use it.
Hate to say it but many people get the hospital bed through Medicare, Medicaid, Hospice so there is not much need for a hospital bed.
The mattress, put with the garbage for pick up
And if you really can not get anyone to take the frame a scrapper will take it and sell t for the metal.
After about 5 continuous months of herbal treatment, holistic and aroma therapy, my brother has made significant recovery. Forward thinking doctors at a local hospital followed my brother closely, even made house visits because he was doing so bad observed and approved of the treatment. We are just about to get him a new mattress and box spring. He is back home and his children’s mother cleans and cooks in exchange for a house in which she can stay.
Recently his cardiologist expressed her disappointment with me taking him off of all his meds. I respectfully disagreed and asked her to look at the results. My brother’s holistic dr and nurse practitioner stood up for us and told the cardiologist that his steady recovery and test results support staying the course.
Thank you you so much for the bed. I wish I could still come to get it bc I have a 95 1/2 yr old alzheimer’s relative who replaced my brother in my home. I am unable to help her hetbally or holistically bc she had me promise that I would strictly follow her doctors before she declined.
If anyone out out there is interested in what helped my brother and the brother of a friend of mine, I am willing to share
Deepest condolences on the loss of your mother. I lost my father and that was so painful, i just cant imaging losing my mother who is 87 and suffers with too many illnesses to mention. Keep hope in our rrsurrection hope. It for sure will come.
Was the bed purchased thru Medicare. If so, it may be rented and needs to be returned to where u purchased it. Call them.
Most Homecare agencies have their own suppliers. They set up and take down. Do you have a Rotary, a Lions Club, Ruritan?
How old is it? We rented my MIL's hospital bed. Are you sure yours was purchased? I ask only because I thought FIL bought it but it turned out to be rented.
I had no problem donating MIL's other DME and supplies. Have you already donated other DME and supplies? If not, treat it as a package deal i.e. if they want the supplies and DME they also have to take the bed.
If it's just the bed, what comes to mind is calling houses of worship in your area, and asking them if they have someone in need of a good hospital bed.
That is surprising that Salvation Army accepts durable medical equipment. I called the local chapter in Washington, D.C. and they told me that they don't accept hospital beds. I know they usually just have one driver and any donations must be handled by one person. Maybe a bed is too heavy for one person to handle.
I purchased the hospital bed for my mother two years ago. I'll try your suggestion of calling houses of worship. Thank you!