Free air travel for medical needs. (News).You've been referred to an MS treatment program, but it's hundreds of miles away. You can't afford the airfare air·fare n. Fare for travel by aircraft. Noun 1. airfare - the fare charged for traveling by airplane fare, transportation - the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance and a full day or more on the bus is equally undoable. Where can you turn? Mercy Medical Airlift, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. founded 20 years ago by pilot and plane-owner Ed Boyer, helps to provide and make referrals for free air transportation for people who cannot afford to get to distant medical centers and disease-specific clinical centers. Eligibility is determined by a number of factors, including income, medical necessity, and normal cost of transportation. People who are fully ambulatory Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved. and need to travel less than 1,000 miles may be eligible for Mercy's Angel Flight Program, which transports people via small, four- and six-passenger, propeller-driven craft. People who use a wheelchair wheel·chair or wheel chair n. A chair mounted on large wheels for the use of a sick or disabled person. wheelchair, n , and/or are traveling 1,000 miles or more, can get referrals to commercial airlines and other organizations offering free flights or flights with significantly reduced fares. If you would like to fend fend v. fend·ed, fend·ing, fends v.tr. 1. To ward off. Often used with off: fend off an attack. 2. Archaic To defend. v. out more about Mercy Medical Airlift, the Angel Flight Program, or other potential sources of charitable medical air travel, contact Mercy's National Patient Travel Center at their toll-free number, 800-296-1217, or go to their Web site: <www.mercymedical.org>. |
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