Pediatric Patient Resources and Services can be found here.
Winn-Dixie Hope Lodge (Gainesville) Offers a free place to stay for cancer patients that live more than 30 miles from Gainesville and are receiving treatment more than 3 days per week. Patients can tour the facility prior to 4:00 pm. Referral needed from medical center providing care. Lodge is located at 2121 SW 16th St, Gainesville, FL 32608. To set up a tour, contact (352) 338-0601.
The Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability programs are the largest of several Federal programs that assist people with disabilities. While these two programs are different in many ways, the Social Security Administration administers both and only individuals who have a disability and meet medical criteria may qualify for benefits under either program.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) pays benefits to you and certain members of your family if you are “insured,” meaning that you worked long enough and paid Social Security taxes. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) pays benefits based on financial need.
If you are struggling to understand your insurance benefits and/or compare & contrast plans to assure the best coverage possible, the Shands Hospital Admitting Office may be able to assist you.
We provide interpretation services each year to thousands of patients and their families with limited English proficiency to ensure patient safety and compassionate care. Spanish medical interpreters are available 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, to assist patients and families during their hospital stay. We also offer 24/7 phone translation services when our interpreters are unavailable. Contact the Office of Patient Experience for assistance (352) 265-0123.
Air Care Alliance: Volunteer pilots fly to help others! Search their nationwide listing to find out more about the various kinds of flight assistance for medical travel available.
Angel Flights Southeast: provides a variety of services to the community, but mostly arranges free air transportation by private aircraft to distant medical facilities when commercial service is not available, impractical or simply not affordable.
Vital Flights: Within Florida only; Vital Flight coordinates free air transportation for individuals seeking medical, compassionate, or humanitarian care.
CAIR Flight: a Tampa,FL, based 501c3 corporation that coordinates charitable air travel to those in need. Our typical aircraft seat four people and are non-pressurized. Must be ambulatory. Can carry supplemental oxygen provided by our passenger, if required. Typically, there is room for one family member and limited weight soft-sided luggage.
Air Charity Network: 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. Air Charity Network serves all 50 states and its volunteer pilots utilize their own aircraft, fuel and time to provide free air transportation to medical facilities for citizens who are financially distressed or otherwise unable to travel on public transportation.
Medicaid Transportation: patients covered under a Florida Medicaid plan have access to transportation assistance services to assure Medicaid recipients can regularly access medical care.
You have the right to make decisions about your own medical treatment. These decisions become more difficult if, due to illness or a change in mental condition, you are unable to tell your doctor and loved ones what kind of health-care treatments you want. That is why it is important for you to make your wishes known in advance.
A living will and/or health care surrogate are legal documents that allow you to give direction to medical personnel, family and friends concerning your future care when you cannot speak for yourself. You do not need a lawyer to complete Advance Directives.