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Whitmore Lake MI, 48189-9774
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What We Do
“Kid’s Wings provides free air transportation to those in financial need and in medical need of treatment at distant facilities and for whom commercial air transportation is either unaffordable or impractical."
A Flight Home 2011-01-03 18:16:00
November 16, 2010
Flight for Blind Infant
Today we did a flight for a blind infant returning home from Troy, Michigan to Denver (three leg flight). She was born about 3 months premature and blind due to detached retinas, “retinopathy of prematurity”, or ROP. Dr. Trese is a world-renowned ophthalmologist at Beaumont Hospital specializing in treating ROP. This infant was a few months old and had been at Beaumont for a month where they did surgery on her left eye. She also has a lung problem so is always on oxygen.
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Transplant Flight 2008-07-24 20:55:28
An 8 month old infant needs to go from SE Michigan to Pittsburgh for a liver/pancreas/intestine transplant. He had never eaten in his life and was on a life support pack. Flights are planned in advance with pertinent information provided by the mission coordinator to the client and the pilot. On July 24, 2008 I was contacted at 5:50 a.m. by the Angel Flight transplant coordinator and informed that the patient was "activated", i.e. there was a match and he had 6 hours to be in the hospital from the initial contact time made by the hospital transplant coordinator, about 5 ......