Accessing specialized cystic fibrosis care sometimes means travelling outside your community or province. The costs of transportation, accommodation, meals and other necessities can add up quickly, but financial support may be available. Below, find a list of travel assistance programs across Canada to help you explore your options.
Select your province or territory below to get started. For information about financial assistance programs in Canada, please see this webpage.
Clinic Travel (short visits or hospitalizations)
Hope Air: Hope Air provides Canadians in financial need with free travel to access medical care far from home (accommodation, transportation, food, etc.)
RMHC (Ronald McDonald House Charities) for pediatric patients and families: RMHC for pediatric patients and families
Fuel the Care by Irving: Provides Fuel cards in Atlantic Canada
Clinic Travel (short visits or hospitalizations)
Travel Assistance Program (TAP BC): Covers travel for non-emergency specialist care with referral.
BC CF Grant for Medications & Travel: BC specific cystic fibrosis grant for medications & travel: Up to $1,500/year for eligible CF patients
BC Family Residence Program (BCFRP) Covers 100% of accommodation costs: Covers 100% of accommodation costs for families of children traveling for medical care.
Friends of Children: Assists with financial support for travel, meals and accommodation involving children’s medical needs.
The Nelson and Area Friends of the Family Foundation: Provides assistance to children stricken with serious illness or injury by way of financial aid for travel related expenses.
South Okanagan Children's Charity: Helps financially disadvantaged families with medical expenses and travel subsidies for children going to BC Children’s Hospital.
The BC Métis Federation: Emergency Assistance Program by BC Métis Federation
Clinic Travel (short visits or hospitalizations)
Alberta Lung: Accomodation for patients going to University of Alberta Hospital.
Otipemisiwak Métis Government: Medical Travel Program for Metis citizens. Provides mileage reimbursement and accommodations.
Drive Happiness: Offers rides to medical appointments or others for seniors in Edmonton
Emergency/Urgent Care
Local Hero Foundation: Provides helicopter emergency medevac services for individuals in Northeastern Alberta
Transplants
Alberta Lung: Offers support including gift cards for accommodation, gas, parking and groceries for transplant cases
Clinic Travel (short visits or hospitalizations)
Saskatchewan Pediatric Out of Province Program: Provides assistance for children 16 years or younger.
Métis Nation–Saskatchewan (MN–S): Medical Travel Assistance Pilot Program for Metis Citizens
Clinic Travel (short visits or hospitalizations)
Northern Patient Transportation Program: Government program to help cover transportation costs for those who live north of the 53rd parallel
Lions Foundation of Manitoba: Helping Hands program aims to ease the financial stress of out of town travel for medical treatment
The Dream Factory: Family fund provides financial relief for medical care.
