To get the most appropriate care for your child with ACC, you might have to travel or temporarily relocate to be close to the best medical treatment. Below are organizations that offer patients and their families housing and transportation assistance.
Keeping families with sick children together and near the care and resources they need.
Air BNB and Cancer Support Community have a strategic partnership with the Airbnb community providing free housing for cancer patients and caregivers, through grant funding relieving the financial burden of patients and their families in finding housing when traveling for treatment.
Facing cancer is hard. Having to travel out of town for treatment can make it even harder. Yet the American Cancer Society has a place where cancer patients and their caregivers can find help and hope when home is far away.
The mission of ALSF’s Travel For Care program is to ensure children battling childhood cancer have the financial assistance needed to travel to clinical trials, experimental therapeutics, or treatment innovations not currently available at their local institution.
We provide transportation on the ground and in the air to clinical care for those in need. Since 1972 Mercy Medical Angels has led the nation with charitable transportation to medical care. Today more than 17,000 free trips to medical care are provided each year, ensuring that no one in need is denied medical care because they don’t have transportation.
Air Charity Network serves all 50 states and provides free flights to people in need of medical treatment.
The mission of Angel Airlines for Cancer Patients is to ensure that no cancer patient is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of means of long-distance commercial airline transportation.
Patient AirLift Services (PALS) arranges free air transportation for individuals requiring medical diagnosis, treatment or follow-up, for compassionate assistance, for military personnel/family requests through the PALS for Patriots Program, or for humanitarian purposes through the PALS Sky Hope Disaster Relief Program.
The Patient AirLift Services’ network of volunteer pilots provide free medical flights and air transportation services, receiving no compensation, using their own or rented aircraft. No fees of any kind are charged for these services.
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