The first and only power chair with an elevating seat, so that you can enjoy face-to-face interactions with the touch of a button. Brochure$3,529.00Want a Special Offer?: Brochure$3,579.00Want a Special Offer?: Brochure$3,699.00Want a Special Offer?: Brochure$3,959.00Want a Special Offer?:Project MEND is committed to improving the quality of life for individuals living with disabilities and illness through the refurbishment, reuse and distribution of medical equipment and other assistive technology. Incorporated in 1992 and established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1993, Project MEND, also known as the Medical Equipment Network for those with Disabilities has been providing for the medical equipment and assistive technology needs of low-income persons with disabilities in San Antonio and Texas since 1992. Project MEND was founded by Murlin Johnson (1936-2007) in 1992 in San Antonio,Texas. Mr. Johnson was born with Rickets Disease, an abnormal bone formation resulting from inadequate calcium in the bones.
This disease required Mr. Johnson to walk with the assistance of crutches and later on in life, he was confined to using a scooter or electric wheelchair. While volunteering with the Texas Department of Human Services Elderly and Disabled Unit, Mr. Johnson noticed social workers clamoring for home hospital beds, wheelchairs and walkers for their indigent patients. He knew there was a wealth of discarded used medical equipment in the community. In 1993, he formed the non-profit agency Project MEND ( Medical Equipment Network for those with Disabilities ). Project MEND has since served Texans by providing a variety of donated and refurbished medical equipment items to low income persons with disabilities. Mobility and independence are basic human rights. People with disabilities have little choice but to depend on family, friends, and the increasingly limited healthcare system when daily activities of life such as bathing, sleeping, and eating become insurmountable chores.
When a person living with a disability has limited economic resources, dependency and isolation often occur. There is no other agency in Texas that provides these services! In 2014, Project MEND provided 1,333 clients with home medical equipment and assistive technology services; issued 3,410 pieces of medical equipment valued at nearly $500,000. The distribution of refurbished, professionally sanitized equipment decreases the cost burden to clients, and also keeps our landfills empty of these items. Supporting Project MEND is a good investment. Your donations are spent on program services. Watch the WOAI News 4 San Antonio story about our recent award from Newman's Own/Fisher House/Military Times to support our Veterans Program. By addressing the needs of medically vulnerable individuals in the community, Project MEND effectively reduces the gap in service to low-income persons with disabilities. Clients served do not have the means to obtain the critical medical equipment any other way.
Results of Project MEND programs include recovered mobility and independence, increased ability of individuals to care for themselves or to actively assist in their care, improved self-esteem and cost savings to the community. Omar suffered a brain injury from the complications of hydrocephalus. Project MEND provided a ramp so that his mother is able to wheel him in and out of the house easily. This allows him to have more mobility and independence, and allows his mom to take him with her as she goes about the daily chores of living and assisting her son. Donna contacted our office seeking assistance for an IPAD. Donna lost her extremities due to an unidentified bacterial infection. Project MEND provided Donna with an IPAD that allows her to communicate with others by using a dictation program that prints out what she is saying. After losing his leg to a land mine, Moe was taught how to make a prosthetic leg for himself. After years of wearing an ill-fitted handmade prosthesis that caused his stump to be infected, Moe was able to get a used prosthetic leg that was re-purposed and fitted to meet his needs.
Established in 1941, Hope Medical Supply has been serving patients and the medical community for more than 70 years. We are an independently owned and operated provider of home medical equipment and supplies. Third party accredited since 1996, we are an approved and licensed provider for Medicare, Medicaid, military, private and commercial insurance health plans. Hope Medical Supply is HUB Certified by the State of Texas to provide medical equipment and supplies. Hope Medical Supply specializes in intermittent catheters for adult and pediatric self-cath users. We offer all types of urinary catheters: straight tip catheters, coude tip catheters, and catheter kits or catheters with insertion supplies. We carry a wide variety of catheters such as pediatric catheters, red rubber catheters, hydrophilic catheters, antibacterial catheters, antibacterial hydrophilic catheters, silicone catheters, Coude tip catheters, olive tip catheters, Tiemann tip catheters, closed system catheters, closed system catheters with kits, and closed system catheters with insertion supplies.
Hope Medical Supply customers have the option of enrolling in a convenient catheter home delivery program so that supplies are delivered to the home on time every month. We offer all major brands of catheters from the following manufacturers: Astra Tech, Bard, Coloplast, Cure, MTG, Rochester, Rusch, and more! Hope Medical Supply also offers a wide range of home medical and mobility equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, rollators, hospital beds, bath safety equipment, enteral nutrition pumps, vacuum erection devices, TENS units. Our respiratory department provides CPAPs, BiPAPs, home oxygen concentrators, nebulizers, and suction machines. Hope Medical Supply’s rehab department is directed by a RESNA-certified ATP and provides customized power wheelchairs, custom manual wheelchairs, custom and specialty pediatric medical equipment, ultra lightweight wheelchairs, tilt in space wheelchairs, scooters, patient standers, and pediatric hospital beds. In addition to a full range of home medical equipment and supplies, we also offer bariatric and pediatric options.
Please see our online catalog for examples of the types of home medical equipment and supplies we provide. More specialty items are available by special order. A note about Medicare's competitive bidding program: Hope Medical Supply is a Medicare provider for intermittent catheters and a category of mobility equipment called "complex rehab". Complex rehab includes customized manual wheelchairs and high end power wheelchairs for individuals with mobility deficits due to neurological diagnoses, myopathy, or musculoskeletal diagnoses. A few examples of these diagnoses are multiple sclerosis (MS), Spina Bifida, cerebral palsy, ALS, muscular dystrophy, quadriplegia, paraplegia, and hemiplegia. Hope Medical Supply is a Medicare Complex Rehab provider; however, we are not a Medicare competitive bid supplier for basic medical equipment items such as: walkers, rollators, canes, crutches, bedside commodes, hospital beds, low air loss mattresses, enteral nutrition, oxygen equipment, CPAPs or BiPAPs, standard/basic manual wheelchairs, or standard/basic Scooters.
Medicare beneficiaries in need of these items and wishing to bill Medicare for these items must utilize a competitive bid supplier. A list of competitive bid suppliers in your area can be found by typing in your zip code at www.Medicare.gov/SupplierDirectory/. Power Wheelchairs & Custom Medical Equipment Power Wheelchairs with Power Seating, Ultra Lightweight Chairs, Custom Power Chairs, Custom Manual Chairs, Tilt In Space Wheelchairs, Custom Molded Seating Systems, Tilt & Recline Chairs, Patient Standers, Custom Shower Chairs, Pediatric Hospital Beds, Custom Pediatric Strollers, Custom Car Seats, Auto Lifts, Auto Manual Controls and Stair Lift Systems Urological Supplies: Intermittent Catheters Intermittent Catheters, Straight Tip Catheters, Coude Tip Catheters, Red Rubber Catheters, Hydrophilic Catheters, Closed System Catheters, Closed System Catheters with Kits / Insertion Supplies, Catheters with Customized Insertion supplies, External Catheters, Catheter Trays and Care Kits
Portable Scooters, Three and Four-wheel Scooters, Portable Ramps and Scooter Lifts Adult Diapers, Briefs & Pullups, Underpads, Personal Cleansing Wipes and Bowel Management Supplies Patient Feeding Pumps, Accessories and Supplies, Enteral Nutrition, Adult and Pediatric Stationary and Portable Equipment Oxygen Concentrators, Liquid Oxygen Systems, Portable Systems and Oxygen Conserving Devices Nebulizer Compressors - Pedi and Adult Aspirators – Suction Equipment Percussors CPAP – Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Units, CPAP Pillows, BiPAP – Bi-level Positive Airway Pressure Units, Complete Line of Accessories & Supplies and Humidification – Heated or Cool General Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Wheelchairs-Manual, Lightweight, Heavy Duty, Power Adult, Pediatric, Youth, Reclining Wheelchairs Rollators, Walkers, Canes Vacuum Erection Devices, TENS Units and Lift Chairs Hospital Beds and Accessories Hospital Beds & Siderails, Bedside (3-in-1) Commodes, Mattress Gel Overlays, Overbed Tables, Trapeze Bars, Traction Equipment, Air Loss Mattresses and Patient Lifts