St. Louis HELP Wins National Award from Keep America Beautiful

January 19, 2018, St. Louis, Missouri… The St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program (St. Louis HELP) has won a Keep America Beautiful National Community Improvement Award for recycling used home health equipment by collecting, revitalizing and loaning the equipment for free to anyone who needs it, and for diverting tons of unusable medical equipment from landfills.

The national award for St. Louis HELP was announced at the Keep America Beautiful National Awards Ceremony during Keep America Beautiful’s National Conference in Dallas, Texas, on January 18-19.

St. Louis HELP is one of some 80 organizations recognized at the America the Beautiful National Awards Ceremony for their commitment and passion to help sustain “clean and green communities.”

“These imaginative, inspirational and transformative community leaders help bring to life creative, resourceful and meaningful actions that help make their communities more socially connected, environmentally healthy and economically sound,” said Keep America Beautiful President and CEO Helen Lowman.

In 2017 more than 2,060 people donated a total of 11,279 home medical items to St. Louis HELP. The charitable group cleans and revitalizes new and used home medical equipment for free loans to children, adults and seniors suffering from accidents, illness or disability. (http://www.stlhelp.org)

“We are extremely honored to be recognized by the Keep America Beautiful National Community Improvement Award for our continuing work to achieve our mission,” said Laura Cannon Singer, executive director of St. Louis HELP who founded the nonprofit organization in 2008.

“We collect about 11,000 items of donated home health equipment annually,” Cannon-Singer said. “We revitalize it for free loans and we recycle unusable devices.”

“In 2017 we diverted more than 170 tons of equipment from landfills – including home health devices that were loaned, items sent to needy organizations in other countries, and broken parts that we recycled.”

The organization operates a 7,000 square foot warehouse in St. Louis County where it cleans, revitalizes and loans home medical equipment and responds to requests from people and families throughout metro St. Louis for free use of the revitalized health equipment.

Call 314 567 4700 to inquire about free loans of available home health equipment. For more information, see the website http://www.stlhelp.org.

The Keep America Beautiful National Conference assembled nearly 400 leaders from Keep America Beautiful’s national network of affiliates, business leaders, policymakers and other experts who shared innovative ideas and proven strategies to help End Littering, Improve Recycling, and Beautify America’s Communities.

About Keep America Beautiful

Keep America Beautiful works to inspire and educate people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. Celebrating its 65th Anniversary in 2018, Keep America Beautiful strives to End Littering, Improve Recycling and Beautify America’s Communities. See the website https://www.kab.org.

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