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Help paying for equipment

Funding programs in Manitoba for hospital beds, mattresses, lifts and cushions

Before you pay, check the health benefits that cover the person who needs the equipment. Start with where they have worked, and where their spouse or common-law partner has worked. Then ask the programs in Manitoba about a powered mattress, a hospital bed, a lift and slings, or positioning cushions.

Help paying for equipment: where to startOpen the worksheetWorkplace and retiree plans

How to read this page

We can’t tell you which program will pay. This page shows you where to ask, and what to ask.

It lists programs that help pay for equipment, and the public programs you may need to go through first.

  • Listed in its own document means we read the program’s own page or document. The entry says what it names, in its words where the type matters.
  • Worth asking means the program exists and may help, but we have not established what it covers. The entry gives who it is for and its official link.
  • Other help with costs covers home changes, travel, vehicles, taxes, work and local service clubs. Most of these do not pay for a mattress, a hospital bed, a lift or a cushion.

The labels show the equipment a program’s document names. A program naming a kind of equipment does not mean a particular product is covered: the program decides. A mattress and an overlay are different things, and so are a bed and its mattress, so ask about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

  • Powered mattress or surface
  • Pressure or therapeutic mattress
  • Mattress overlay
  • Hospital bed
  • Lift
  • Sling
  • Positioning

Private insurance and workplace plans are on their own page: workplace and retiree plans. Start there if the person, or their spouse or common-law partner, has ever had benefits through work.

Programs to ask in Manitoba

We read Manitoba’s programs in their own pages and documents on November 12, 2026. Home Care equipment is decided by each regional health authority, and the payment table quoted here is one region’s copy from 2018, so ask yours what it supplies now.

  • Listed in its own document

    Manitoba Home Care: equipment

    • Powered mattress or surface
    • Pressure or therapeutic mattress
    • Hospital bed
    • Lift
    • Sling

    Manitoba residents of any age, registered with Manitoba Health, whom their regional health authority has assessed as needing home care.

    A payment table used by Southern Health-Santé Sud, dated September 2018 and prepared by Manitoba Health in consultation with the Provincial Home Care Managers Network, puts these in its “Home Care Responsibility” column: “Mattress, APP (Alternate Pressure) and maintenance”, “Pumps and Air Mattress”, “Hospital bed frame”, “Hospital bed Mattress”, “Mechanical lifts” and “Slings”. The province’s Materials Distribution Agency catalogue lists “Hospital Beds”, “Therapeutic Sleep Surfaces” (some described as alternating pressure), “Lifting Systems” and slings among “Medical equipment products available for rental only through the Home Care Equipment Program.”

    A Home Care case coordinator, or other staff of the regional health authority, decides whether a person is eligible for equipment. The provincial policy says equipment is provided “based on priority of client need and the availability of resources” in the region, and one region’s guideline says “Home Care pays a rental fee” for equipment. People funded by Manitoba Public Insurance or the Workers Compensation Board may have to get equipment through that funder first. Ask your regional health authority what it supplies now.

    Official source: southernhealth.caPayment table dated September 2018; the catalogue prints no dateChecked November 12, 2026

  • Listed in its own document

    Manitoba Public Insurance: Personal Injury Protection Plan (PIPP)

    • Hospital bed

    Manitoba residents injured in an automobile accident anywhere in Canada or the United States.

    MPI’s rehabilitation page gives a bed as an example of special equipment: “PIPP may pay for a hospital-type bed or an orthopedic insert for your office chair.” The regulation lists “medically required beds, equipment and accessories” among expenses MPI may reimburse at its discretion. None of the MPI pages read names a mattress.

    MPI says a person’s medical and rehabilitation team may decide that special equipment would help, that “MPI makes decisions about rehabilitation funding”, and that it will “either rent or purchase the equipment for you”.

    Official source: mpi.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

Worth asking in Manitoba

  • Worth asking

    Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba

    Workers in covered industries in Manitoba who have a work-related injury or occupational illness.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    The WCB says workers must get its written approval for a support before it will cover the cost.

    Official source: wcb.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Employment and Income Assistance

    Manitobans who have no other way to support themselves or their families.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    An approved health professional completes a Medical Equipment Request and Justification Form. People with coverage through another health services program are told to apply to that program.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Disability and Health Supports Unit (DHSU)

    People in Employment and Income Assistance, Children’s disABILITY Services or Community Living disABILITY Services; a health professional sends the request.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 11, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Children’s disABILITY Services

    Families in Manitoba raising a child under 18 with a developmental or physical disability.

    Its equipment policy says regional health authorities provide medical equipment that children need for medical reasons, and that this program does not provide medically necessary equipment. Ask which one applies to the equipment your clinician recommends.

    Families must use private insurance if they have it.

    Official source: gov.mb.caEquipment policy revised June 2026Checked November 12, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Compensation for Victims of Crime Program

    Victims who suffer personal injury, hardship or expenses from certain crimes in Manitoba, and some relatives of homicide victims.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 11, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Cerebral Palsy Association of Manitoba: equipment grants

    People with cerebral palsy who are paid members of the Association and live in Manitoba.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    Official source: cerebralpalsy.mb.caChecked November 11, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Lions Foundation of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario: Helping Hands

    People in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario who meet its low-income criteria and show financial need.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    Apply before buying: its guidelines say items already purchased are not reimbursed.

    Official source: lionsfoundation.orgChecked November 12, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Manitoba Supports for Persons with Disabilities

    Manitobans with a severe and prolonged disability who are financially eligible for income assistance.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    A regulated health professional completes part of the equipment request form.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Community Living disABILITY Services

    Adults in Manitoba with an intellectual disability that was present before age 18.

    We have not established what it covers. Ask it about the exact equipment your clinician recommends.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

  • Worth asking

    Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba: Family Grant Program

    Children up to 18 with a confirmed diagnosis who live in Manitoba.

    Its page says the program helps with “costs related to specialized equipment, and services not covered by any other source”, and that “Eligibility does not ensure approval.” Ask about the equipment your clinician recommends.

    Official source: varietymanitoba.comChecked November 12, 2026

Canada-wide programs that also apply in Manitoba

Details for each are under Canada-wide programs.

Long-term care in Manitoba

  • Listed in its own document

    Personal care homes in Manitoba: what the home supplies and what a resident pays for

    • Pressure or therapeutic mattress
    • Lift
    • Sling

    People living in a personal care home in Manitoba.

    The Department of Families’ income assistance manual says it is the responsibility of personal care homes to provide medical equipment “for use by, or transferrable to, more than one resident”, and lists “Therapeutic and pressure-reducing mattresses” (it does not say what type) and “Mechanical lifts and slings”. It lists as the resident’s own responsibility items bought for one resident’s use, among them “pressure cushions”, “slings for mechanical lifts” and “specialized seating”. Manitoba Health’s own page names “routine medical and surgical supplies”.

    Ask the home what it supplies and what it charges for. Regions print their own lists: Northern Health Region’s page puts “fall mats” and “positional aids” among other costs a resident pays.

    Official source: gov.mb.caEmployment and Income Assistance manual, section 22.4.2; the page has no dateChecked November 12, 2026

Other help with costs in Manitoba: home changes, travel, taxes and local clubs

Most of these do not pay for a mattress, a hospital bed, a lift or a cushion. A home-adaptation program may name a ceiling lift, and its entry says so. They are here because they can help with other costs of living with a disability.

  • Other help with costs

    Manitoba Possible: Financial Empowerment

    Manitobans with disabilities, within the program’s household income limits, who take its money-management courses. Their savings are matched.

    Official source: manitobapossible.caChecked November 11, 2026

  • Other help with costs

    Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg: Assistive Technology Products and Services

    Adults with physical disabilities, on referral, mainly by an occupational therapist.

    Official source: hsc.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

  • Other help with costs

    Spinal Cord Injury Manitoba

    People with spinal cord injuries in Manitoba.

    Official source: scimanitoba.caChecked November 11, 2026

  • Other help with costs

    Safe and Healthy Home for Seniors

    Manitobans aged 65 or older, and family members who have seniors living with them, with a combined household income of $60,000 or less, for basic home adaptations.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

  • Other help with costs

    Primary Caregiver Tax Credit

    Unpaid primary caregivers in Manitoba who provide care for more than 90 days to someone living at home and assessed at care level 2, 3 or 4.

    Official source: gov.mb.caChecked November 12, 2026

Canada-wide: The War Amps, Lions Clubs, Home Accessibility Tax Credit, Excise gasoline tax refund, Enabling Accessibility Fund, On-Reserve Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program, Kin Canada (Kinsmen and Kinette clubs), Knights of Columbus, Disability supports deduction (Canada Revenue Agency), GST/HST on medical and assistive devices (Canada Revenue Agency), Disability tax credit (Canada Revenue Agency), Canada Disability Benefit, Canada Pension Plan disability benefit, Hope Air, Canadian Cancer Society: travel and lodging help.

Private insurance in Manitoba: see workplace and retiree plans, which also covers the insurers.

If a program is missing

This list is not complete. If a program is missing, ask your clinician or your local home and community care service which programs apply, and ask each one the same three questions.

Back to help paying for equipment, for the three questions, the question to copy and the worksheet.

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