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There are free airplane transportation services for medical treatments available for people with a financial need provided by many volunteer pilot organizations.
Miracle Flights: 1-800-FLY-1711 www.miracleflightsforkids.org (for medical air travel on large airlines– free–if qualified). Will take adults & children
Charitable Patient Airline Tickets 888-675-1405 Airline tickets for patient travel that exceeds 1,000 miles or there are reasons a patient cannot fly on light aircraft.
Air Compassion America 866-270-9198 Patient travel requires air ambulance and medical monitoring en route
Air Compassion for Veterans 888-662-6794 Provide medically related air transport services to troops, veterans and their immediate family members.
Mercy Medical Airlift (MMA) http://mercymedical.org Mercy Medical Airlift's mission is to ensure that no financially stressed patient is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of means of long-distance medical transportation; further, to ensure the provision of urgent transportation in situations of compelling human need and homeland security emergencies.
Special Lift: 888-675-1405 This special service provides for nationwide "single-point of contact" administration of clinical trial travel requirements in support of special/rare disease organizations and clinical research centers. Persons or organizations concerned with travel assistance arrangements for multiple patients at different time and to different places should investigate this program.
Stretcher Patient Transport 800-296-3797 Mercy Medical Airlift operates a Federally-approved stretcher equipped Beech 36 aircraft (the Bonanza) for purposes of transporting patients who must be lying down en route. This service is for personnel who do not require any medical attention en route. Examples of such transports would be; elderly bedridden patient being relocated to a new long-term care facility, child in a full body cast, etc.
MMA operates this aircraft under a Federal Air Carrier Certificate and utilizes a cadre of MMA trained pilots. The Bonanza is based out of Manassas, Virginia and serves the Mid-Atlantic States. The service is provided free of charge to eligible patients and families.
Airlift Hope America 800-325-8908 Ambulatory outpatients traveling less than 1000 miles departing from North Carolina. Tennessee.
Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic 800-296-3797 Ambulatory outpatients traveling less than 1000 miles departing from District of Columbia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
Air Charity Network (ACN) Support 757-318-9174 Mercy Medical Airlift has several support initiatives that it undertakes on behalf of and at no cost to the Air Charity Network including nationwide pilot recruitment, government liaison/program development and liaison with national disease and patient support organizations and other national charities involved in patient services. Additionally, MMA operates the www.volunteerpilot.org web site on behalf of the Air Charity Network This web site has referred thousands of potential volunteer pilots to ACN regions.
Homeland Security Emergency Air Transportation System (HSEATS) 757-318-9174 HSEATS is the United States civil aviation response to disasters. It is a jointly coordinated program that utilizes aircraft owned and flown by volunteer pilots, corporate business jets, air ambulance services through Air Compassion America and donated airline tickets through Mercy Medical Airlift
Charitable Aviation Association Management 757-318-9174 MMA contracts with other charitable medical air transportation organizations at both the national, regional and state levels providing fund-raising, general administration and program services thus achieving maximum efficiency at minimal costs.
The National Patient Travel Center provides information about all forms (see examples below) of charitable, long-distance medical transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical transportation network. Patient Number 1-800-296-1217 Fax Number 1-800-550-1767 Email: [email protected]
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GROUND TRANSPOTATION available:
Angel Bus 757-333-0084 is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing compassionate, non-emergency long-distance ground transportation to patients in need. Angel Bus utilizes motor coaches and their volunteer drivers as well as commercial bus service to fulfill our mission.
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