- Healthcare Hospitality Network, Inc. (HHN) HHN is a nationwide professional association of nearly 200 unique, nonprofit organizations that provide lodging and support services to patients, families and their loved ones who are receiving medical treatment far from their home communities.
- Patient Travel Patient Travel provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medically-related transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical transportation network.
- First Hand Foundation First Hand Foundation is a public organization that provides funding for individual children—both domestically and globally—who need assistance with clinical necessities (such as surgery, medication and therapy), medical equipment and travel related to care.
- Air Care Alliance ACA is a nonprofit public benefit organization incorporated in the state of California. As a publicly supported tax exempt charitable organization donations are typically tax deductible. We thank our donors immensely for making the work possible.
- Angel Flight WestAngel Flight West is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization that arranges free, non-emergency air travel for children and adults with serious medical conditions and other compelling needs. We fly over 10 missions every day of the year.
- American Cancer SocietyIf you need a ride to treatment or want to volunteer to drive patients to their treatments, call us today at 1.800.227.2345. The American Cancer Society needs volunteer drivers to ensure that cancer patients get to and from their lifesaving treatments.
- Patient Travel AssistanceThe Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Susan Lang Pay-It-Forward Patient Travel Assistance program is available to blood cancer patients, with significant financial need, who may qualify to receive financial assistance for approved expenses.
- Patient AirLift ServicesPatient AirLift Services arranges volunteer medical flights and free air transportation for needy individuals throughout the greater Northeast region, from Virginia to Maine, Ohio to Massachusetts.
- CancerCare – AVONCares ProgramWe offer limited financial assistance for cancer-related costs such as transportation and child care, and our oncology social workers can help you find resources.
- Air Charity NetworkAir Charity Network is a charitable organization that provides access for people in need who are seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community, or national crisis.
- Corporate Angel NetworkCorporate Angel Network is the only charitable organization in the United States whose sole mission is to help cancer patients access the best possible treatment for their specific type of cancer by arranging free travel to treatment across the country.
- Lifeline PilotsFounded in 1981 by Wanda Whitsitt of Champaign, IL, LifeLine Pilots’ mission is to facilitate free air transportation through volunteer pilots for financially distressed passengers with medical and humanitarian needs.
- Mercy Medical AirliftMercy Medical Angels’® mission is to ensure that no financially stressed patient is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of a means of long-distance medically-related transportation.
- National Patient Travel CenterThe National Patient Travel Center provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medically-related transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical transportation network.
- American Cancer Society – Hope LodgeFacing 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 – an American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.
- Sisters Network Inc.The Breast Cancer Assistance Program (BCAP) provides services to women facing financial challenges. The BCAP program provides financial assistance for but not limited to: medical related lodging, co-pay, office visits and prosthesis.
* Cancer Horizons has created this list extensive of vendors and resources from what are believed to be reliable sources, including referrals from the CH community, Internet and direct submission requests. Cancer Horizons neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any interaction between our site user and the service provider. Any experience with any of these providers good or bad is the exclusive responsibility of the user.
I wish someone could help me with a cheap car,I can’t ride buses anymore to see grandkids.my 4th stage breast cancer matisized to bones and stomach.it is hard on me.if I could some how get a cheap car,I could see my grandkids more often.they to busy to come see me.I have on my bucket list a cheap car.that’s all I ask for.but what’s most important they get a cure for this stupid cancer
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I am wondering if there is a way to make a cash donation anonymously to a coworker who has taken leave to care for her mother. She now has to pay for temporary lodging for a month near the hospital during her mothers recovery post surgery. Is there a way to make the donation tax deductible through an organization to go to an individual to assist with expenses? There are organizations that provide assistance to families of children with cancer, why not families with parents with cancer.
I’m in desperate need of a vehicle so that I can get to and from my Dr appt. Please. Plus I have been trying to adopt another Aussie puppy I lost my Australian shepherd in January she was 13 years old since that time I can’t sleep I’m in fear of dying in my sleep my Aussie would wake me up when I would stop breathing and she always knew when blood pressure drops. I know that I have asked for nothing in my life and now I need it. My cancer is rare
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Hi, my husband has stage 4 colon cancer and he will be having surgery pretty soon at city of hope we live an hour and half away . His time in the hospital will be about 10 -12 days. I’m looking for some hotel that I can walk to hospital from my hotel . I’m not good with driving in new places and at night, I’m blind in one eye and being in a different city not knowing where anything is I get lost easy. My Daughter will also stay with me for support. I know about the hotel discount we stayed last week for 2 nights and was great. The problem is they are to far from hospital I need some place close so I don’t have far to go. And being that many days to be in a hotel is gonna run up a big bill I can’t pay. If you can help me with someone that can tell me where I can stay I would appreciate it. Thank you Melanie Hill.
Melanie, have you tried the resources on this page? https://www.cancerhorizons.com/free-stuff/free-lodging/
Contact City of Hope and ask if they have place thier connected with
My son has sarcoma Stage 4, a very rare kind for even sarcoma. He is beginning trials in NYC at Memorial Sloan Kettering and will need to go back and forth for many weeks ..He live in Detroit, MI area.. He is on disability and has 3 children and wife with low paying job….Is there a possibility to get help with the flights required for him to get his treatments/
Have you contacted any of the transportation companies on this page? That would be the next step I would also include Southwest in your list of possibilities.
Yes, I tried Southwest and they gave me a list of hospitals that gave grants, but all these programs are for children, and my son is 43 years old.