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Causes: Emergency Medical Services & Transport, Health, Human Services, Military & Veterans Organizations, Transportation Assistance, Veterans
Mission: Angel airlines for veterans ensures that no veteran is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of means of long-distance transportation. We provide charitable airline tickets for urgent travel to facilities for financially and medically needy veterans for specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.
Programs: Ground mode patient travel program: providing non-emergency, long-distance ground transportation to financially stressed ambulatory patients who are traveling for treatment. A typical trip does not exceed 300 miles (one-way) and we do not normally handle trips within a local area or community. Exceptions made on a case-by-case basis, routinely for cancer patients traveling daily for treatement.
airline mode patient travel program: patient travel exceeds 750 miles or there are reasons a patient cannot fly on a light aircraft. Mercy medical angels has partnerships with most of the major airlines in the united states.
volunteer pilot mode patient travel program: volunteer pilots providing flights for ambulatory outpatients traveling less than 750 miles departing from district of columbia, delaware, kentucky, maryland, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, virginia and west virginia. Volunteer pilots providing flights for ambulatory outpatients traveling less than 750 miles departing from north carolina, tennessee are served by airlift hope.
public education: mercy medical angels, our partner charity operates a nationwide community outreach and education program with specific emphasis on educating the medical and public health sectors about the operations of charitable long-distance patient transport via different modes of transportation.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.