Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness

Topics	Health services and access Transportation
States served	Alaska Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Idaho Montana Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah Washington Wyoming
Description	The mission of Angel Flight West is to arrange free air transportation in response to health care and other compelling human needs. Angel Flight West links both volunteer private pilots and commercial airline partners with people in need whose non-emergency health care problems require that they travel to and from medical facilities throughout the 13 western states, including Alaska and Hawaii. The costs of all flights are donated. There is never a charge for an Angel Flight West mission.
Services offered	Examples of Angel Flight West's medical missions include transporting patients for chemotherapy, surgery, dialysis, diagnosis, treatments and follow-ups. Angel Flight West also flies missions of compassion, including transporting children to and from special needs camps such as those for burn survivors or children with life-threatening diseases. Along with provideing free, private air transportation for people with medical needs, other non-medical needs cover a wide range, from moving battered women out of shelters and into other safe locations to responding to emergency situations such as moving evacuees out and reuniting families during Hurricane Katrina. Angel Flight pilots also transport corneas, blood, tissues and technicians needed for organ donations.
Results
Source	Rural Monitor Newsletter, Spring 2007
Contact person	Angel Flight West Phone: (888)426-2643 Website: http://www.angelflightwest.org/

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