Financial Support

PLGA families encounter many obstacles in the fight against PLGA.  Financial issues can play a big role in the stress for these families.  Fortunately, there are some wonderful organizations that can help.  Whether you are looking for help finding complimentary housing while your child is being treated at a facility far from your home, assistance with flight costs to a treatment program, or just general financial assistance due to the burden of medical costs and lost income due to your child's illness, there is hope.     

 

Organization Description

Housing Help when in the Hospital
Ronald McDonald House Corporation

The three core programs of RMHC - the Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile - are focused on helping families in need. Our cornerstone Ronald McDonald House program began in 1974 based on a simple idea: Provide a "home away from home" for families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. Since that time, more than 10 million families around the world have benefited from the comfort provided by a Ronald McDonald House.

Hosts for Hospitals

The mission of Hosts for Hospitals is to provide free lodging and support at volunteer-host homes as a caring response to the housing needs of patients and their families who come to the Greater Philadelphia area for specialized medical care.

Flight Assistance
The Corporate Angel Network

Corporate Angel Network is the only charitable organization in the USA whose sole mission is to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort and financial burden of travel for cancer patients by arranging free flights to treatment centers, using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine business.

Miracle Flights for Kids

Miracle Flights works with needy families, doctors, hospital personnel, and social workers to arrange for flights to medical treatment centers all over the country. When the barrier between a desperately ill child and medical treatment is distance, Miracle Flights for Kids makes the miles disappear.

Lifeline Pilots LifeLine Pilots is a volunteer core of over 500 pilots whose mission is to use their special skill of flying to help people with emergencies to reach medical centers.

Financial Assistance
The Kelly Ann Dolan Memorial Fund

The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund is dedicated to the uninsured needs of families caring for terminally, critically and chronically ill, seriously disabled or severely injured children through advocacy, education, information and financial assistance.

Michael's Way The mission of Michael’s Way is to help the families of children with cancer to cope with the extraordinary expenses that come about as a direct result of the child’s illness.
UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation The UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation is a non-profit charity dedicated to facilitating access to medical-related services that have the potential to significantly enhance either the clinical condition or the quality of life of the child and that are not fully covered by the available commercial health benefit plan. This “support” is in the form of a medical grant to be used for medical services not covered or not completely covered by commercial health benefit plans
The Childhood Cancer Ombudsman Program(MS Word .Doc) The Childhood Cancer Ombudsman Program provides complaint investigation and resolution for families of children with cancer and adult survivors of childhood cancer. We provide information and research options to families so that they may better exercise their rights in making decisions in the areas of medical treatment, schooling, rehabilitation, employment, and insurance reimbursement/coverage.
Patient Advocate Foundation Patient Advocate Foundation seeks to empower patients to take control of their health care. Case managers work with patients to discover local, state, and federal programs that provide assistance for their individual needs

 

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