Alabama long distance medical transport to or from anywhere in the state, from the Tennessee Valley to Mobile Bay: a real bed, a medical pro aboard, family along.
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A parent in Selma needs to get to you in Indiana. A father in a Texas hospital wants to come home to Dothan. We drive both. Say your mother spends winters at the beach and lands in the hospital in Foley. Home in Grand Rapids is 999 road miles away. Or you've settled in Huntsville and your dad's health is slipping in Pittsburgh. That's too far to ride sitting up in a car. With us, your loved one lies in a real bed, a medical professional stays aboard for the whole drive, and one of you can come along.
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Nationwide Long Distance Medical Transport
To and from Alabama, state to state, bed to bed
You might call us about this direction for:
We can start at a hospital bed in Birmingham, a nursing home in Gadsden or a condo in Orange Beach. The other end can be any address in the lower 48.
Or about this one for:
The first bed can be anywhere from California to Pennsylvania. The last one might be on Mobile Bay, in the Tennessee Valley or at the end of a county road near Demopolis.
Whichever way the van is headed, it's our own Mercedes Sprinter and our own crew. Not sure where your loved one fits? Call us and describe them. We can usually tell you in one conversation.
One address is in Alabama and the other is somewhere else in the lower 48. That could be a Montgomery hospital and a daughter's house in Orlando, 452 road miles apart, or the same drive headed home. Our own crew handles it from the first bed to the last.
Between Montgomery and Norfolk it's 725 road miles, whichever way you're headed. That's a lot to ask of someone who can't sit up. So your loved one doesn't sit. They lie in a real bed on a memory-foam mattress. No gurney, no bare van.
It may be time for Mom to leave the old house in Cullman and move near you in Virginia. Or Dad is coming down to Fairhope to be close to the grandkids. Our crews go at your parent's pace, and they care for people with dementia and anxiety every week.
Some people want to be back in the family house in the Wiregrass. Others want to be with a sister two states over. When the days are short, we get them there, with comfort as the first concern, and we work directly with the hospice team.
Moving a larger patient between Tuscaloosa and Louisville, 421 road miles, takes more than extra helpers at the door. We bring a vehicle set up for the job, with a bariatric-rated lift and stretcher and a crew trained to use them. Your loved one keeps their dignity at both ends.
Did someone quote you a medical flight out of Mobile or into Birmingham? If your loved one is stable, the road does the same job for a fraction of that bill, and family can come. A plane also needs an ambulance ride at each airport. Our van goes bed to bed. If your loved one isn't stable enough for the road, we'll tell you.
Some Alabama hospitals say plainly that their patients come from past the state line. UAB's O'Neal center calls itself the only National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer center in the state, and says cancer patients from around the region come for its clinical research. USA Health University Hospital in Mobile calls itself the major referral center for southwest Alabama, southeast Mississippi and parts of northwest Florida. UAB Medicine says it performs over 400 transplants each year, and Spain Rehabilitation Center is the hub for UAB's brain injury and spinal cord injury Model Systems. If your loved one has a bed waiting at one of these, we can bring them to it, and take them home when it's over.
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Houston, TX ↔ Birmingham667 road mi
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Raleigh, NC ↔ Birmingham552 road mi
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Pittsburgh, PA ↔ Birmingham750 road mi
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Tallahassee, FL ↔ Mobile243 road mi
These four are examples only, and we aren't affiliated with any of them. We can drive to or from any Alabama hospital, cancer center, rehab center or home. Road miles are measured between city centers.
Your loved one might be in a hospital room, a rehab unit, assisted living or a house with a long driveway. We go to all of them, both ways. Not every long trip even leaves Alabama: Mobile to Huntsville is 357 road miles, and Gulf Shores to Birmingham is 277. Both clear our minimum. We pick up anywhere in Alabama, and here are a few of the cities, the hospitals in them and a sample long drive from each.
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Birmingham ↔ Indianapolis, IN479 road mi
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Montgomery ↔ Orlando, FL452 road mi
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Mobile ↔ Houston, TX468 road mi
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Huntsville ↔ Detroit, MI650 road mi
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Tuscaloosa ↔ Charlotte, NC446 road mi
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Dothan ↔ Tampa, FL376 road mi
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Foley ↔ Grand Rapids, MI999 road mi
Any of these samples can run the other way. Mileage goes from one city center to the other, and your quote uses the actual addresses.
One call and we handle everything, and you'll have a real number today.
“I was attempting to get my father from NC to his cancer treatment in Tampa and I was in Alabama.”
It could be Huntsville Hospital and a house in Detroit, or a Houston rehab center and your place in Birmingham. Call or send a quote request with those two addresses, and we'll give you one price for the whole trip that same day.
A case manager at UAB may have told you Friday. A hospital in another state may be pushing to send your father back to Mobile. Give us whatever date you were given. We plan around discharge dates all the time.
Our crew walks into the room, moves your loved one and settles them into the bed in our Mercedes Sprinter. The medical professional stays with them until they're in the next bed. One of you can sit right beside them.
Huntsville to Boston is 1,136 road miles, and the drive back is just as long. A trip like that gets two drivers who take turns behind the wheel, so the van keeps rolling while your loved one sleeps.
I-65 covers about 366 miles of Alabama, from I-10 in Mobile up through Montgomery and Birmingham, past Decatur and over the Tennessee line near Ardmore. From there it goes on to Nashville, Louisville and Indianapolis. Huntsville sits off to the side. You reach it on I-565, a spur from I-65 at Decatur. So Birmingham to Huntsville is 101 road miles, while Mobile to Huntsville is 357.
I-20 and I-59 share one road from the Mississippi line through Tuscaloosa into Birmingham, then split. I-20 goes east to Atlanta. I-59 goes northeast past Gadsden and Fort Payne toward Chattanooga. I-85 starts in Montgomery and runs through Auburn and Opelika to the Georgia line. Alabama is on Central Time and Georgia is on Eastern. Phenix City, Lanett and Valley unofficially keep Eastern Time too. So when a discharge or arrival time comes from near the line, ask which clock it's on.
Hurricane Ivan came ashore at Gulf Shores on September 16, 2004. Hurricane Sally landed near there on September 16, 2020. Hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30. In an evacuation, I-65 can flip so that all lanes run north from Mobile to Montgomery. Baldwin County trips headed west on I-10 cross the top of Mobile Bay and go through the Wallace Tunnel. If your date falls in the season, leave room to move it, whether you're leaving the coast or coming home to it. We watch the forecast and change the plan if the roads aren't safe.
The first comes in spring, mostly March through May. The second comes in November and December. On April 27, 2011, one EF4 tornado tracked about 80 miles from Greene County through Tuscaloosa to north of Birmingham. If the forecast turns bad on your travel day, we'd rather get your loved one there a day late. That holds whether you're coming into Alabama or leaving it. If your dates are firm, tell us early so we can plan around them.
The Gulf Shores and Orange Beach tourism site says snowbird season runs from November to March, with the peak from January to early March. Baldwin County was the state's fastest-growing county from 2010 to 2020, and its share of people 65 and older rose from 16.9% to 21.9%. A winter visitor who gets sick on that coast can be a long way from their own doctors. Gulf Shores to Indianapolis is 754 road miles, and Gulf Shores to Detroit is 1,000. We can pick up at Baldwin Health or at the condo. It works the other way too, for a parent moving down to be near family on the coast.
Huntsville was the state's most populous city in the 2020 Census, with 215,006 people, and it's home to Redstone Arsenal and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. If a job there brought you south, your parents may be 836 road miles away in Philadelphia or 650 away in Detroit. When it's time for them to be near you, we can bring them from their hospital or house to a bed near Huntsville Hospital or Crestwood Medical Center. If you retired here and want to go back north to family, it's the same drive in reverse.
You get one price for the entire drive, and the number you say yes to is the number you pay. These six things push it up or down, whether we're leaving a Mobile hospital or arriving at a house in the Tennessee Valley.
Miles matter most, and our minimum is 200. Some Alabama trips come up short: Birmingham to Atlanta is 147 and Birmingham to Nashville is 191. Birmingham to Memphis clears it at 245. A long route runs more efficiently, so 1,000 miles won't run you five times the price of 200.
A stable patient who needs a bed and someone keeping an eye on them costs less. Oxygen running the whole way, or bariatric lifting gear, raises the price. Send us what the discharge team at UAB or a hospital up north has ordered, so we price what your loved one really needs.
The medical professional is on every trip. A long haul also takes two drivers trading off, so a run from Mobile to Massachusetts takes more crew than a run from Mobile to Birmingham.
A trip we can plan ahead costs less than one that has to roll tomorrow. If your date lands in hurricane season or tornado season, tell us early and keep a spare day.
A hospital loading bay in Birmingham is simple. A high-rise condo in Orange Beach or a farmhouse on a dirt road in Wilcox County takes more planning. Tell us about elevators, steps and the road in, at both ends.
We load oxygen, a specialty mattress or bariatric gear when your loved one needs them. When they don't need it, it stays off the van. Tell us early if a Birmingham or Mobile discharge plan calls for any of it, or if a hospital out of state is sending your loved one home with new equipment.
You pay us directly by card, check or bank transfer. CareCredit financing and veteran discounts are both available.
Reviews from families we've driven, including a trip that started or ended in Alabama.
“I would like to thank the crew for providing the compassionate care for my dad. This health journey has not been easy for him or our family. I want to take you guys for getting him home safely to spend his last days with family.”
“The overall experience was great. I enjoyed the crew. They were friendly and respectful. They treated my mother very well. They had her laughing at times, which was great. They took care of anything we needed...food, potty breaks, etc. My husband was following us and they even considered him when…”
“From customer service to crew members to transport...all were done with excellence and great care for my mother as they transported her from Alabama to Colorado. Communication with the crew prior to pick up and during transport was awesome. Once they arrived, they took care of getting her settled…”
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Whether your mother needs to get from a hospital in Foley home to Michigan, or your father needs to get from Houston to his own bed in Birmingham, it starts with two addresses. Send them to us and you'll have a price the same day.
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