DC Shares the place where you can donate gently used durable medical equipment. DC Shares cannot provide services without donations. If you have medical equipment going unused please consider donating it to DC Shares.

DC Shares serves low income District residents with disabilities who are unable to get the durable medical equipment they need. Since 2007 DC Shares has been a place where those with disabilities can come to get the Durable Medical Equipment and Assistive Technology Devices that will enable them to live independently.

DC Shares provides electric wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, walkers, canes, shower benches and other durable medical equipment free of charge to those who are uninsured, underinsured, or have no other means of obtaining these devices.

The user agrees that suitability and fit of equipment is to be determined by user's personal physician or physical therapist. The borrower agrees to "hold harmless" the DC Shares (agency), and any and all employees, agents or representatives of same, from damages to property or injuries or death to myself and/or any other person in connection that may result during use of borrowed equipment. Equipment is loaned in an "As Is" condition. The borrower is responsible for all maintenance of borrowed equipment and agrees to return equipment promptly when it is no longer needed.

Legal Definition: "Hold Harmless" In a contract, a promise by one party not to hold the other party responsible if the other party carries out the contract in a way that causes damage to the first party.

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