Programs

The following programs are administered by Mercy Medical Airlift®.

National Patient Travel Center
1-800-296-1217
PatientTravel.org

Provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medical air transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical air transportation network.



Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic
800-296-3797
AngelFlightMidAtlantic.org

Ambulatory outpatients traveling less than 1000 miles departing from District of Columbia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia


Airlift Hope America
800-325-8908
AirliftHope.org

Ambulatory outpatients traveling less than 1000 miles departing from North Carolina, Tennessee


Charitable Patient Airline Tickets
888-675-1405
PatientTravel.org

Patient travel exceeds 1,000 miles or there are reasons a patient cannot fly on light aircraft.

 


Air Compassion America
866-270-9198
AirCompassionAmerica.org

Patient travel requires air ambulance and medical monitoring en route


Air Compassion For Veterans
888-662-6794
AirCompassionForVeterans.org

Provide medically related air transport services to troops, veterans and their immediate family members.


Homeland Security Emergency Air Transportation System (HSEATS)
757-318-9174
HSEATS.org

HSEATS is the United States civil aviation response to disasters. It is a jointly coordinated program that utilizes aircraft owned and flown by volunteer pilots, corporate business jets, air ambulance services through Air Compassion America and donated airline tickets through Mercy Medical Airlift.

 

 

 


Special Lift
888-675-1405

This special service provides for nationwide "single-point of contact" administration of clinical trial travel requirements in support of special/rare disease organizations and clinical research centers. Persons or organizations concerned with travel assistance arrangements for multiple patients at different time and to different places should investigate this program.

 


Stretcher Patient Transport
800-296-3797

Mercy Medical Airlift operates a Federally-approved stretcher equipped Beech 36 aircraft (the Bonanza) for purposes of transporting patients who must be lying down en route. This service is for personnel who do not require any medical attention en route. Examples of such transports would be; elderly bedridden patient being relocated to a new long-term care facility, child in a full body cast, etc. MMA operates this aircraft under a Federal Air Carrier Certificate and utilizes a cadre of MMA trained pilots. The Bonanza is based out of Manassas, Virginia and serves the Mid-Atlantic States. The service is provided free of charge to eligible patients and families.

 


Air Charity Network (ACN) Support
757-318-9174

Mercy Medical Airlift has several support initiatives that it undertakes on behalf of and at no cost to the Air Charity Network including nationwide pilot recruitment, government liaison/program development and liaison with national disease and patient support organizations and other national charities involved in patient services. Additionally, MMA operates the www.volunteerpilot.org web site on behalf of the Air Charity Network. This web site has referred thousands of potential volunteer pilots to ACN regions.

 


Charitable Aviation Association Management
757-318-9174

MMA contracts with other charitable medical air transportation organizations at both the national, regional and state levels providing fund-raising, general administration and program services thus achieving maximum efficiency at minimal costs.

 


 

Angel Flight at NIH
301-451-9646
AngelFlightAtNIH.org

Angel Flight's corps of pilots, provide flights of hope and healing by transporting patients and their escorts in private aircraft, free of charge, to medical research and treatment facilities.

 

 


 

 

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