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AIR
TRAVEL
The following links will take you to organizations that offer free
air travel to patients who need to travel long distances for treatment.
The
Air Care Alliance - Listings
The
Air Care Alliance has an extensive list of links to groups involved
in public benefit flying.
Corporate
Angel Network, Inc.
Corporate Angel Network provides free air transportation
for cancer patients traveling to and from recognized treatment centers
in the United States without regard to their financial resources.
CAN arranges for patients to use empty seats on corporate aircraft
operating on business flights.
Angel
Flight West
Angel
Flight West provides
free transportation
to medical treatment
for people who cannot
afford public transportation,
or who cannot tolerate
it for health reasons.
Operates in the Sestern
United States.
If
you need transportation
outside the Western
States, you can obtain
a referral to another
similar organization
in your area by contacting
Angel Flight America's
National Patient Travel
Center at (800) 296-1217,
or visit the web site.
Mercy
Medical Airlift
"MMA's
mission is to facilitate a charitable means of long distance medical
air transport for all medically indigent, low-income and financially
vulnerable patients in our society thereby ensuring equal access
to distant specialized medical treatment or to appropriate facilities
and settings for continuing care."
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LODGING
Many of the hotels
listed at the following cancer centers offer discounts to patients.
M.D.
Anderson
Dana-Farber
Duke
University Medical Center
Johns
Hopkins
University
of Washington
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