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The Hope Air Fast Facts

• National registered charity founded in 1986
• Dedicated to arranging free air transportation
  for Canadians who are in financial need and
  require non-emergency medical care outside their
  home communities
• 53,000 flights in 22 years
• Nation-wide service is unique any age or
  illness group
• Close to 50 of our flights are for children and
  their escorts
• 90 of all donations received are applied
  directly to our mission

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The Hope Air Fast Facts

• Requests come directly from clients/patients and
  their families, as well as from professionals in
  the health care and social service sectors
• Volunteers support our In-House Call Centre and
  provide office support to staff we are only 4
  staff
• Hope Air will arrange over 2,300 flights this
  year
• We do one thing, and we do it well
• Getting Canadians to getting better!

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What need does Hope Air address?

• Canadians rely upon the commitment to universal,
  accessible health care
• For many Canadians, living in rural or remote
  areas means distance creates a barrier to access
• For many Canadians, their lack of financial means
  creates a barrier to access
• Hope Air exists to ensure that no fellow
  Canadians get left behind in Canadas healthcare
  system.

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Who does Hope Air assist?

• Canadians helping Canadians
• Need to travel for non-emergency medical care
• Flying is the best means to get to their
  medical appointment
• Care is covered by their provincial health plan
• Financial need
• Escort may also fly
• Any age and any illness group
• Coast to coast assistance

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How does Hope Air qualify its clients?

• 4 stage process
• Information gathering from the Client and/or
  social worker
• Client details
• Reason for flight
• Assessment of financial need
• Personal/family income level
• Community LICO rating
• Doctor confirmation from both the referring
  doctor and the appointment doctor
  (specialist/surgeon)
• Need able to fly
• Need for a medical escort
• Flight inventory which can be utilized
• Commercial airlines
• Volunteer Pilots

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Why are the Clients travelling?
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What if Hope Air is not able to help?

• For many of the Clients - they cancel their
  medical appointments
• If the Client does go to their appointment
• they have added to their already onerous
  financial burden
• the alternative mode of transport will have been
  many hours in considerable discomfort
• the Client arrives for medical treatment in a
  highly stressed and tired condition
• several extra days away from home, school, family
  friends

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The benefits Hope Air provides

• Reduce the stress of the client, and their
  family, at a critical time when the uncertainty
  of illness prevails
• Relieve financial strain on already disadvantaged
  families
• Enable more timely and easy access to medical
  treatment
• Reduce absenteeism - air travel shortens the time
  people are away from school, family, friends and
  work
• Ensure that the sophisticated technology
  specialized medical procedures, which are
  centralized in large cities, are more easily
  accessible to all Canadians

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Where Hope Air Flights originated (2008 - by
province)
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Examples of the top routes

• Prince George ? Vancouver
• Sault Ste. Marie ? Toronto
• Terrace ? Vancouver
• Timmins ? Toronto
• Moncton ? Toronto
• Rouyn-Noranda ? Montreal
• St. Johns ? Toronto
• Prince Rupert ? Vancouver
• Val-dOr ? Montreal
• Kapuskasing ? Ottawa
• Fort St. John ? Vancouver
• Thunder Bay ? Toronto
• Happy Valley - Goose Bay ? St. Johns
• Charlottetown ? Toronto
• Saskatoon ? Vancouver
• Halifax ? Toronto
• Smithers ? Vancouver
• Fredericton ? Toronto
• Castlegar ? Vancouver

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How we help - our 2 principal flight programs

• Commercial Airlines
• Inaugural flight on October 5, 1986
• Partnerships with many of Canadas commercial
  airlines
• Volunteer Pilots (VPP)
• Inaugural flight on October 25, 1999
• Strong partnerships with CBAA COPA

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Who provided the Flights? (2008)
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How we applied our donations
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Getting Canadians to getting better!