Air Care Alliance
888 260-9707
Free air transportation to medical treatment for people with financial need provided by volunteer pilot organizations across the country.
Air Charity Network
718 438 9355
Serves all 50 states and its volunteer pilots utilize their own aircraft, fuel and time to provide free air transportation to medical facilities for citizens who are financially distressed or otherwise unable to travel on public transportation.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Travel For Care Program
610 649 3034
Provides financial assistance needed to travel to clinical trials, experimental therapeutics, and treatments not available at their local institution. Transportation and lodging available for eligible families.
Along Comes Hope
805 322 1423
Assists pediatric patients and families with airfare, lodging, gas, and grocery gift cards.
American Cancer Society Hope Lodge
800 227 2345
Offers cancer patients and their caregivers a free place to stay when their best hope for effective treatment may be in another city.
American Cancer Society Road to Recovery Program
800 227 2345
Available in some areas. Trained volunteers drive patients and families to hospitals and clinics for treatment.
Contact your local American Cancer Society office for more information on what type of transportation program is available in your area.
816 421 2300
Volunteers and supporters throughout the Midwest offer free flights for patients.
215 358 1900
Provides free air transportation to qualified patients and their families by arranging flights to distant medical facilities, delivering supplies to disaster areas, and reuniting families during desperate times.
310 390 2958
Network of volunteer pilots fly their own planes and pay for all costs to help patients make critical journeys.
Angel Wheels
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 buses.
Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation
800 747 2820
Offers travel grants to help bone marrow failure patients and see a specialist to help with their course of treatment. These grants include coverage of travel by plane, bus, train, or car, lodging, meals, co-pays related to see the specialist, and the costs of parent or caregiver accompanying the patient.
Be The Match (affiliated with National Bone Marrow Foundation)
800 627 7692
Provides funds to help patients who need an unrelated donor for a bone marrow or cord blood transplant. They provide funds for co-payments and insurance, donor searches, and out-of-pocket expenses, such as lodging, food, and transportation.
Believe in Tomorrow
800 933 5470
Provides hospital and respite housing services to critically ill children and their families. They additionally offer Hands on Adventures, a program that partners with organizations that allow children to experience “once in a lifetime” opportunities.
Breast Cancer Angels
714 898 8900
Assists breast cancer patients currently residing in certain counties in southern California with food, housing, clothes, medical co-pays, Cobra costs, transportation, home health care, final expenses, second opinion fund, and utility payments.
Cancer Care
800 813 4673
Offers funding for cancer patients in transportation, home care, and child care
Cancer Support Community + Airbnb
877 793 0498
Provides free housing for cancer patients and caregivers, provided they meet certain geographic and income criteria. This is a partnership between Airbnb and Cancer Support Community.
Children’s Flight of Hope
914 328 1313
Provides air transportation for children to access specialized medical care. It’s a mission of love, of joy, off hope.
Chronic Disease Fund
877 968 7233
Helps patients with chronic disease, cancer and other life-threatening conditions obtain the life saving medications and travel assistance they need.
Compass to Care
563 231 0458
Arranges necessary travel arrangements and helps pay for air, bus, train fare, and car rental for pediatric cancer patients.They will also help with lodging, gasoline, parking, taxi, and tolls.
Corporate Angel Network
914 328 1313
Helps to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort and financial burden of travel for cancer patients by arranging free flights to treatment centers, using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine business. Eligibility to participate in our program is open to all cancer patients, bone marrow donors, and bone marrow recipients who are ambulatory and not in need of medical support while traveling and is not based on financial need.
Drivers for Survivors
Provides free transportation service and supportive companionship for ambulatory cancer patients, from suspicious findings through completion of treatments.
This service is provided for ambulatory cancer patients living in Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Ashland and Cherryland going to all cancer-related medical appointments within a 60-mile radius of ZIP code 94538, freeing them to focus on their health and essential treatment.
Family House
Provides free housing to families who have a child receiving cancer treatment at University of California San Francisco Children’s Hospital living more than 50 miles from the hospital.
Fisher House
888 294 8560
Provides military families housing close to a loved one during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury.
Footprints In The Sky
303 799 0461
Offers free flights for patients to medical facilities throughout the United States using mainly donated charter and corporate jets.
Healthcare Hospitality Network
800 542 9730
Provides free or low-cost lodging to families getting medical treatment far from home.
HealthWell Foundation
800 675 8416
Provides financial assistance with prescription copays, health insurance premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance, pediatric treatment costs, and travel costs
Hope Flight Foundation
510 427 3956
925 575 1172 Spanish
Provides free air transportation for children cancer patients and other life threatening illnesses.
Hospitality Homes
888 595 4678
Provides short-term housing in volunteer host homes for families and friends of patients receiving medical care in the Boston area.
Hope Flight Foundation
Provides free air transportation for children cancer patients and other life threatening illnesses.
Hosts for Hospitals
215 472 3801
Provides free lodging and support at volunteer host homes for patients and their families who come to the greater Philadelphia area for specialized medical care.
Hosts For Humanity
Connects families and friends of patients traveling to receive medical care with volunteer hosts offering accommodations in their homes.
Joe’s House
Helps cancer patients and their families find a place to stay when traveling away from home for medical treatment.
Keep Swimming Foundation
Covers hotel rooms, bedside meals, parking, public transportation, gas, and rent/mortgage payments for families of critically ill patients who require extended inpatient medical care at an accredited USA hospital.
Lazarex Cancer Foundation
925 820 4517
Provides assistance with costs for FDA clinical trial participation, identification of clinical trial options, community outreach and engagement. They do CT navigation, reimburse for travel and lodging expenses for clinical trial participants, and provide funds for a travel companion for the patient so they don’t have to travel alone. Lazarex is located in East Bay and helps patients for all over the country get to trials throughout the country. We give hope and a chance for life!
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Patient Aid Program
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Susan Lang Pre CAR T-Cell Therapy Assistance Program provides financial assistance to patients diagnosed with a blood cancer who are being evaluated to receive CAR T-cell therapy as either standard treatment or a clinical trial.
Assistance covers travel and lodging expenses from the evaluation phase through the end of the conditioning therapy phase.
Those who qualify will receive $2,500 in financial assistance to support approved travel and lodging expenses, which include: ground transportation, tolls, gas, parking, car rental, car maintenance, repairs and parts, air transportation, baggage fees, lodging, and ambulance services.
LifeLine Pilots
800 822 7972
Helps with free flights to patients needing transportation to medical facilities far from their homes. These patients must demonstrate a financial need and must be ambulatory.
Medicaid
People who have Medicaid are entitled to receive help with travel to medical centers and doctors’ offices for treatment. This may take the form of payment or being reimbursed for gas, payment of bus fare, or may mean using a vanpool. County departments of social services in each state arrange for help with transportation, but families must ask for it by talking to their Medicaid caseworker.
Mercy Medical Angels
800 296 1217
Provides those who lack the financial means to travel for distant medical care and treatment receive commercial airline tickets, volunteer pilot operations, and long distance ground transportation.
Michelle’s Place Cancer Resource Center
The Treatment Travel Assistance program provides non-emergency medical appointment transportation program for patients in cancer treatment. (Western Riverside County)
Miracle Flights for Kids
800 359 1711
Flies children who are struggling with serious cancers or debilitating diseases to specialized medical treatment centers across the U.S. Any child needing medical treatment or seeking out a second opinion not available in the ho hometown is eligible to apply for a miracle mission.
National Organization for Rare Disorders
800 999 6673
203 744 0100
Helps patients obtain life-saving or life-sustaining medications, financial assistance for with insurance premiums and co-pays, diagnostic testing, and travel assistance for clinical trials or consultations with disease specialists.
National Patient Travel Center
800 296 1217
Provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medically-related transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical transportation network.
Operation Liftoff
314 298 9770
Provides air travel for children with a life threatening illness and their parent(s) when medical treatment is not available in their geographical area.
PALS SkyHope
We provide free air transportation to patients to and from medical treatment/diagnosis/surgery as well as transportation to cancer camps.
We do this through a network of volunteer pilots who donate their time, aircraft, and fuel. We have flown 30,000 missions since we started in 2010. Each patient can fly with a companion, as many times as they need for as long as they need.
PALS SkyHope, is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, founded in 2010, that began in response to the growing population of people with life-threatening or chronic medical conditions that needed compassionate air transportation to medical appointments. PALS facilitates FREE flights by utilizing our charitable aviation network. This includes both volunteer pilots operating private aircrafts, as well as commercial partners.
As long as a patient is ambulatory and stable, we may be able to help.
Going Above and Beyond To Lift Others Up
Outreach Relationship Manager
PALS SkyHop
www.palsskyhope.org
516-578-4405
7110 Republic Airport, Suite 202
Farmingdale, NY 11735
PAN Foundation Transportation Assistance Program
Helps bridge the transportation gap between patients and the care they need by providing grants that reduce ridesharing costs for trips to the doctor’s office or pharmacy.
Patients, caregivers, or advocates applying on their behalf can apply for assistance using the PAN Foundation’s online patient portal.
Raquel’s Wings for Life
940 627 1050
Offers air travel to treatment centers for cancer patients and their caregivers.
Ride With Emilio
Provides free transportation for underprivileged children and their parents for cancer related appointments. (Currently serving San Diego, Orange, and Imperial Counties.)
Ronald McDonald House Charities
630 623 7048
Offers free or reduced-cost lodging for families of seriously ill children who are receiving treatment at nearby hospitals.
Southwest Airlines
Provides complimentary roundtrip tickets to nonprofit hospitals and medical transportation services
Southwest announced the 79 nonprofit hospitals and medical organizations across the nation that will benefit from the Southwest Airlines® Medical Transportation Grant Program (MTGP). Throughout 2018, these hospitals and medical organizations all will receive roundtrip tickets for distribution among patients and/or caregivers as a way to help alleviate travel expenses related to medical issues.
By providing roundtrip air travel to various hospitals and organizations, MTGP will reach a total of 100 facilities across the United States — spanning 26 states in 41 different cities. Since MTGP’s inception in 2007, more than 69,000 tickets for roundtrip air travel have been donated to nonprofit hospitals and medical organizations, allowing Southwest to positively impact patients and caregivers around the country.
“Southwest Airlines Medical Transportation Grant Program has been a tremendous support to MD Anderson Cancer Center,” said Peter WT Pisters, M.D., president of MD Anderson. “Their support over the last 10 years has enabled many of our patients to avoid the financial worry about transportation costs and we and our patients are extremely grateful.”
A full list of the participating hospitals and organizations can be found at Southwest.com/medicalgrant. To learn about qualifications for travel assistance through the designated organizations, please directly contact the Social Work, Travel/Concierge Service, or Patient Assistance Departments at the hospitals and medical organizations listed online, as each has unique guidelines for the administration of the tickets.
Susan Lang Pay-It-Forward Patient Travel Assistance Program (LLS)
844 565 2269
Offers financial assistance for approved expenses which include ground transportation, air travel, and lodging related expenses for blood cancer patients.
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