Patient AirLift Services

✈PALS Pilot e-Newsletter

sheryl — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:30:58 +0000

Pilot’s e-Newsletter April 2013

✈ A Night With PALS at “The Museum”

eminogue — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:52:09 +0000

When:
Date: Friday, February 1, 2013
Time: 07:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Where:
Cradle of Aviation Museum
Charles Lindbergh Blvd.,
Garden City, New York 11530
Map and Directions

Click here for RSVP Details Click here for Invite Details

✈ Party With Your PALS at “The Loft”

eminogue — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:30:09 +0000

When:
Date: Friday, January 18, 2013
Time: 07:30 PM

Where:
The Loft
8 Lackawanna Plaza
Montclair, New Jersey, 07042
Map and Directions

Click here for RSVP Details

Buy Tickets Online

eminogue — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:38:49 +0000

Although the pilots donate their time, airplanes and all expenses without compensation, the organization needs to maintain a coordination center in order to connect people to pilots and oversee the missions. Our only sources of income to operate this center are donations and grants. It is from the generous contributions from people like you that we are able to be here for those who seek our services. We would like to thank our past and prospective supporters for their charitable giving.

**If you do not have a PayPal account, enter your donation amount followed by your information on the left-hand side of the page. Click “Review Donation & Continue” to review donation. You will be able to add a comment on the review page.**

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Volunteer pilots flying in Sandy relief volunteers

mlapan — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:34:16 +0000

Volunteer pilots flying in Sandy relief volunteers
Fri, Dec 7 2012 11:30 AM

Web produced by Jennifer Matarese, Eyewitness News

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (WABC) — Airplane pilots are turning their planes into a shuttle service, picking up recovery workers from other states, and bringing them to Farmingdale, Long Island to help.

They are changing the lives of people affected by Hurricane Sandy.

“We’re here we’re ready to go to work,” said Joe Kinnick, a volunteer worker.

The volunteers work full time jobs yet decided to spend this weekend volunteering on Long Island.

They are giving up precious time with their families to help the victims of Superstorm Sandy.

“This is my second time since Hurricane Sandy and I just keep coming back as long as there’s work for me,” said Dave McGoogan, a volunteer worker.

Patient Airlift Services normally does medical, military and humanitarian flights.

Then they linked up with volunteers from Crisis Response International Relief Workers who have people around the country who want to help but needed a quick way to get here.

“There are people around the country like these people from Youngstown, Ohio that are not able to drive 15 hours to get here and were able to fly in here in an hour and a half,” said Peter Welles, a volunteer pilot.

The group of 11 volunteers from Ohio and Pennsylvania are working in Lindenhurst this weekend ripping out and rebuilding homes.

With the help of a short flight they can put in three solid days of work.

If all we do is come and tear up dry wall or insulation, if that’s all we do, that’s all we do,” McGoogan said.

They’ve arranged 2,200 flights in the two short years since they started.

PALS Featured by National Business Aviation Association

mlapan — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:52:26 +0000

Businesspeople Fly for PALS

Wed, Dec 5 2012 1:35 PM

Recently on the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) website Patient AirLift Services was featured, highlighting the members of PALS as both elite business men and women and PALS pilots. Here is a quick excerpt from the article:
“Shawn Lyden, of Coastal Realty Capital in Maine, often uses his aircraft to support his business, which makes commercial loans throughout the Northeast, but said PALS flights can be the highlight of his week. Several years ago, he flew a young girl burned from head to toe to the Shriner’s Hospital in Boston for skin grafts. As the little girl recovered and grew, additional flights enabled the girl to return to the hospital, where surgeons replaced grafts as she outgrew them. “I flew her a dozen times and by the fifth or sixth flight, we had a bond,” said Lyden. “We became friends.”"
To read the full article Click Here!

Listen to the podcast featuring PALS!

Eileen Minouge Joins the “Kilmeade & Friends” Radio Show to Talk PALS

mlapan — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:49:41 +0000

Recently, Patient AirLift Services’ Executive Director joined Brian Kilmeade on the popular “Kilmeade & Friends” radio program on Fox News Radio. Eileen spread the word of the PALS mission and spoke about recent missions including the heartwarming story of baby Easton Fridel. (Read more about the mission here!)

Minogue explained that many people settle for getting treatment for their ailment at a hospital that is close to their home, even though it may not the best hospital they can go to.

“PALS is about a supporting families that are going through not normal times.”

See the video here!

PALS Helps Unite Baby Easton Friedel With Family For Thanksgiving

mlapan — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 03:13:13 +0000

PALS Helps Unite Baby Easton Friedel With Family For Thanksgiving
Sat, Nov 24 2012 9:58 PM

See Easton’s story here (Via WSYR New York)

(Via AuburnPub.com)

WEEDSPORT | A family is finally together again, after months of challenges and with challenges ahead.

Easton Friedel, who was born Aug. 23 with epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic skin disease, finally came home Friday to Weedsport after three months at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

“It has been a long three months,” said Mary Pine, Easton’s great aunt.

Easton’s condition causes his skin to be so fragile that it tears or detaches from his body if it is exposed to the slightest friction or heat. He will need intensive medical care for the rest of his life.

Community benefits have taken place for the baby all over the county during the last few months and a crowd of nearly 50 neighbors, friends and even some who didn’t meet the Friedels until Friday night gathered in downtown Weedsport with signs, candles, glow sticks and cameras ready to welcome the family home.

Easton’s parents, Danielle and Jared Friedel, and older brothers Logan, Carter and Blake, arrived in style in a large limo bus donated by Big D’s Limos with other relatives. The shining, black bus parked briefly in downtown Weedsport, where the family greeted friends and Jared Friedel held Easton up to the bus window so the community could get a look at him.

“My daughter was born the day after (Easton) — the 24th, same hospital and everything,” said Melissa Cuykendall, of Weedsport, a family friend. “I can’t imagine not being home.”

Another resident, who saw Danielle Friedel going through her pregnancy, also came to welcome them home.

“I work in the Dollar General and we just kept watching their progress and rubbing the tummy,” said Bev Holmes. “We’ve been watching the progress. Weedsport’s a small community. When something happens, we all stick together.”

Even the owner of the day care the Friedels’ other three sons attended sent a text message welcoming Easton home.

“Erie Canal Kids is looking forward to adding Easton to our ‘family’ along with the other boys,” texted Kim Cuipylo from her vacation in Florida.

The family was flown to Syracuse by Patient AirLift Services, a volunteer airline that operates in the northeast as far west as Ohio and as far south as Virginia, according to the agency’s website.

Volunteer pilots give their hours and the use of their aircraft without compensation to patients who need many chemotherapy treatments for a long period of time, patients who must avoid crowded public places due to immune diseases or patients who are too fragile to wait at an airport and go through security. Easton fit the bill to get a flight.

Once the family arrived home, the excitement was still rampant as they settled in.

“It’s really amazing to see him in his own home with his siblings and parents,” said Easton’s aunt Sara DeMatteo.

Danielle Friedel, who was overjoyed to see so many people waiting for the family, said Easton will have to return to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in March for a check-up and will need to return every few months until he is older.

“I just want to say thank you to everyone who supported him, who supported us,” she said.

PALS OFFICE OPEN AFTER HURRICANE-Update

haian02 — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:23:53 +0000

PALS office is open. Currently on limited power, but we have phones and internet service. Please feel free to contact us if you need us.

PALS OFFICE CLOSED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY-UPDATE

haian02 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:23:10 +0000

Due to Hurricane Sandy, the PALS office has no electricity or phone service. If you need to reach us regarding an upcoming flight, please e-mail us at info@palservices.org or call 516-640-1391 or 516-640-1390.