Financial Assistance Accommodation Alternate Accommodation

Canadian Cancer Society - Travel Treatment Please Note: The Jean C. Barber Lodge is The BC Government website has a “Medical Fund offers financial assistance that may undergoing renovations and will re-open in Travel Accommodations Listings” webpage. help with travel costs for some patients with the Fall of 2020. Enter your arrival and departure dates low income. Check to see if this program is Temporary accommodation is provided at: and location (). When calling right for you call toll-free 1 888 939 3333 Chalmers Lodge accommodations ask for the “medical rate”. http://csa.pss.gov.bc.ca/medicaltravel/ First Nations Health Authority offers 1450 West 12th Avenue B.C. residents with status and BC medical Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1M9 Options: insurance, medical transportation to attend For a reservation call 604 879 9131. Included Easter Seals House cancer appointments. To learn more call toll- in your stay are; Breakfast, lunch and dinner Travelling 3981 Oak St, Vancouver, B.C. V6H 4H5 free 1 800 317 7878 or go to their website. are available on the premises. Bag lunch is www.fnha.ca available upon request. 604 736 3475 or toll-free 1 800 818 3666 to Vancouver Persons who identify as First Nations (Metis, Freemasons Cancer Car provides free rides YWCA Hotel Inuit and non status) and are in need of to cancer appointments. 733 Beatty St, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 2M4 for Cancer financial assistance with accommodations Wig and breast prosthesis bank are on site. 604 895 5830 or toll-free 800 663 1424 during treatments are welcome to contact Patient and Family Counselling services for Aboriginal Patient Lodge Pacific Spirit Hostel Treatment additional support. 1245 East 8th Ave, Vancouver, B.C. V5T 1V2 1935 Lower Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 Call 604 877 6000 x 672194 The lodge offers 1, 2 and 3 bedroom suites 604 822 1000 or toll-free 1 888 822 1030 Ministry of Social Development and Poverty and all suites include bathrooms, livingrooms Douglas Guest House and kitchens. For availability enquiries please Reduction may offer funding for medical 456 West 13th Ave, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 2V8 call 604 707 9191 or visit their website transportation if you are getting Income 604 872 3060 or toll-free 1 888 872 3060 Assistance or Persons with Disabilities (PWD) www.lnhs.ca/aboriginal-health-wellness Fairview Guest House benefits. Call toll-free 1 866 866 0800 Hope Air in partnership with Airbnb 896 West 13th Ave, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 4E4 Can provide free accomodation to quailfied Travel Assistance Program (TAP) can assist 604 873 0842 with some transportation costs if cancer individuals during medical treatment up to 7 This brochure is for the convenience of treatment or tests are not available in your days. Accomodation can be booked our cancer patients and their families. own community. Ask your doctor/clinic for a additionally or independently of flights. For BC Cancer is in no way endorsing specific TAP form. Learn what transportation options further information, call 416 222 6335 or businesses. Please speak directly with the are available on the website. toll-free 1 877 346 HOPE (4673) or visit accommodation of your choice for further 600 West 10th Avenue www.gov.bc.ca/travelassistanceprogram www.hopeair.ca information. Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 4E6 Call toll-free 1 800 663 7100 604 877 6000 Veterans Affairs Independence Program or toll-free 1 800 663 3333 may provide funding to assist veterans with transportation to medical appointments. Patient & Family Counselling Call toll-free 1 866 522 2122 604 877 6000 x 672194

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Resources Translink: HandyDART: Cancer centre parkade: Freemasons Cancer Car provides free rides Call 604 953 3333 for general information. Accessible, door-to-door shared transit Parking is available in the parkade on the for patients (Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond See schedules and rates on their website. service for people with permanent or corner of 10th Avenue and Ash Street. and New Westminster). Call to enquire about https://www.translink.ca temporary disabilities. Customers must first Cost is $3.50 per hour with $14.25 maximum register, it takes 2-4 weeks to approve. routes, register or book a ride. Forty-eight Sea Bus: daytime rate. A booth attendant is available hour advance notice is required. A HandyCARD and Taxi Saver vouchers are during daytime hours. North Vancouver to Vancouver Call 604 872 2034 or available to registered riders. Register for Display receipt clearly on dash. toll-free 1 800 299 0188 Skytrain: HandyDART online or call 778 452 2869. Parking pass: Expo Line -Vancouver-Surrey To book or cancel a trip call 604 575 6600. Volunteer Cancer Drivers provides free rides For long term parking requests ask Canada Line - Vancouver-YVR/Richmond for patients in many areas not serviced by Ebus: your radiation therapist to provide a letter Millennium Line - Vancouver-Coquitlam the Freemasons Cancer Car. Call to enquire Offers standard fare and an online fare. of approval and give the letter to the about routes and registration or to book a West Coast Express: Book tickets online and receive a 5% parking attendant. ride. Call 604 515 5400 or visit their website Mission City to Vancouver discount. Rides from Surrey, Abbotsford, The options are: www.volunteercancerdrivers.ca Chilliwack, Hope, Merritt, West Kelowna, Four Week Pass - $103.25 and discounted Kelowna, Vernon and Kamloops. Community programs that have a “Better at rate for Six Week Pass - $103.25. Call toll-free 1 877 769 3287 Home” program may provide seniors with Hardship parking: https://myebus.ca/ transportation to medical appointments. Patient and Family Counselling Services can Some programs may require a fee for request a hardship parking pass for eligible service. To find a non-profit organization West Broadway West Broadway West Broadway patients who cannot afford parking on case iont i iin near you, go to the map and look up your Willow Street Laurel Street Oak Street 750 West Broadway Cambie Street by case basis. This is a request made to the community. Visit their website map n Mary Pack Skin Care s North parking office by a counsellor. Arthritis 865 855 Centre Eye Care Centre www.betterathome.ca Centre West West 835 West 2550 Willow nt 895 West 10th 10th 10th 10th 675 West 10th Call 604 877 6000 x 672194 West 10th Avenue Emergency Entrance West 10th Avenue Heather Street West 10th Hope Air arranges free flights for those who 828 818 West 10th n for more Information. Jack Bell Blusson Broadway Research Robert 950 920 910 Spinal Cord Vancouver centre - City Hall Research H.N. Ho West West West Pavilion Centre VGH Centre Skytrain Station need to travel for medical reasons and are in Research 10th 10th 10th 600 West 10th Canada Line Centre

Laurel Street Street or private lots: 803 West 12th Ave Jim Pattison Joseph & Rosalie Heather Pavilion financial need. Segal Family Pavilion 2733 Heather 2660 North Health Centre Metered two hour street parking is available Oak St. Call 1 877 346 4673 or visit their website Deliveries 2700 Street Jim Pattison Willow Pavilion Banfield Pavilion on surrounding streets. Read street signs as Gordon 805 West 12th 2785 Ash https://hopeair.ca Pavilion Leon Judah and Leslie South Blackmore Pavilion Diamond Health Tzu Chi Heather 855 West 12th 2775 some parking is for residents only. Care Centre 777 767 BC Centre for West West Alumni Disease Control Main Entrance 12th 12th Building Angel Flight provides free flights to cancer 2775 Laurel St. 899 West 12th 655 West 12th Receive one or two hour free parking West 12th Avenue West 12th Avenue Laurel Street Heather Street patients who need to travel from Vancouver Oak Street Cambie Street with a minimum purchase at a store in the Island communities to Vancouver for cancer City Square Shopping Centre. Make sure treatments. you validate your ticket with the retailer. Call 778 677 8920 or visit their website West 13th Avenue West 13th Avenue West 13th Avenue Validation is available only one time or you www.angelflight.ca will need to pay the maximum daily rate. The closest Skytrain stop to BC Cancer *is Broadway–City Hall Several private parking lots and garages are available on the surrounding streets.