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Patient Travel & Lodging

Links to charitable or special fare flights to research and treatment sites, hospitality houses for patients and families, and fee-for-service ambulance services. See disclaimer

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Mercy Medical Airlift
Provides services to those in need of air medical transportation.

The Children’s Inn at NIH
A private, nonprofit, family-centered residence for pediatric outpatients and their families at the National Institutes of Health.

Edmond J. Safra Family Lodge at NIH
Offers a home-like place of respite for families and loved ones of adult patients who are receiving care at the NIH Clinical Center.

Air Charity Network (ACN)
Provides services to people in need access to free air transportation to specialized health care facilities in case of family, community, or national crisis.

Angel Flight at NIH
Patient assistance, referral, and arrangements for all forms of ambulatory outpatient charitable or charitably assisted travel to and from distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment; serves clinical trial patients. Angel Flight Newsletter, Spring 2012, 9(1).

Other Transportation Providers

Corporate Angel Network (CAN)
Arranges free travel on corporate jets for cancer patients, bone marrow donors, and bone marrow recipients.

Angel Flight Veteran
Arranges flights for veterans and active-duty military personnel and their families in need of compassionate medical air transportation.

Air Ambulance Anywhere
Provides fixed-wing air ambulance transport services for patients, family members, and providers of medical care; delivers bed-to-bed service, specialized medical care during transport, and other necessary incidentals for any of three levels of medical care—basic life support, advanced life support, and critical care—on domestic and international flights.

Air Transport Services/Ambulances
A listing of commercial national and international ambulance services.

Air Compassion America
A nonprofit patient advocacy/assistance organization that helps locate and coordinate bed-to-bed air ambulance services and/or airline medical escort services and assists patients' families in saving an average of 40% off commercial air ambulance costs.

Air Ambulance Specialists, Inc.
Provides fixed-wing air ambulance transport services for patients, family members, and providers of medical care; delivers bed-to-bed service, specialized medical care during transport, and other necessary incidentals for any of three levels of medical care—basic life support, advanced life support, and critical care—on domestic and international flights.

American Jets, Inc: Air Ambulance
Airborne intensive care ambulance unit that responds to emergencies around the globe, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Other Lodging Providers

Joe's House
An accommodation expert to help patients with their travel needs with various types of lodging throughout the United States.

National Association of Hospital Hospitality Houses
Provides lodging and other supportive services to patients and their families when they are confronted with medical emergencies.





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