Kansas long distance medical transport to or from anywhere in the state, from Johnson County to the high plains: a real bed, a medical pro aboard, family along.
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Kansas is a long state. I-70 alone runs about 424 miles from the Colorado line to the Missouri line, and a patient in Goodland is 407 road miles from KU Med in Kansas City, Kansas. So a trip can clear our 200-mile minimum without ever crossing a border. Others head for another state. It might be a father in Wichita moving 707 road miles to a daughter in Chicago, or a mother in Tampa coming home to Wichita, which is 1,413. On any of them, your loved one lies down in a real bed for the whole drive, with a medical professional aboard. Nobody has to sit upright in a back seat for hours of open plains.
Nationwide Long Distance Medical Transport
To and from Kansas, state to state, bed to bed
This trip may be the right one when:
We can start from a Wichita hospital room, a nursing home in Salina or a farmhouse north of Colby. From there, we drive bed to bed to any of the lower 48.
Going the other way, it might look like this:
The start can be anywhere in the lower 48, from a Denver hospital to a Tampa rehab center. The drive ends at the next bed, whether that's an admitting desk in Kansas City, a room in Wichita or the back bedroom at the farm.
Each one uses our own crew in our own Mercedes Sprinter, going either direction. Plenty of families aren't sure which of these they need. That's fine. Describe your loved one on the phone and we'll tell you.
Wichita and Des Moines are 392 road miles apart. Orlando and Kansas City are 1,243. Either end can be the start. Our crew stays with your loved one from the bed in one state to the bed in the other, with no handoff to another company along the way.
Liberal to Kansas City is 407 road miles, and Denver to Kansas City is 603. That's a long way for someone who can't sit up. They travel lying down on a memory-foam mattress in a real bed, not on a narrow cot, from the first mile to the last.
A parent who has spent a lifetime in one small Kansas town may not want to go anywhere. Our crews go slowly, explain each step, and work with dementia and anxiety all the time. The pace is the same on the way to Overland Park or the way back to Salina.
For some families, the address that matters is a house in Pratt or a farm outside Great Bend. For others, it's a daughter's home in Iowa. We work directly with the hospice team, and your loved one's comfort sets the pace in either direction.
A small-town care home may not have extra hands at the door, and it shouldn't need them. We arrive with a purpose-equipped vehicle, a lift and stretcher rated for bariatric patients, and a trained crew, in Topeka or at the far end of the trip. Your loved one keeps their dignity.
Someone may have priced a medical flight out of western Kansas or into Wichita. Any plane needs a ground ride to the runway and another from it. If your loved one is stable, one road trip does the job for a fraction of that bill, and family can come.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center is the only center in Kansas on the National Cancer Institute's list of designated centers, and it holds the comprehensive designation. The center says it has treated patients from all 50 states since 2012. KU Med, the academic medical center in Kansas City, Kansas, is a Level I trauma center whose transplant team reached 5,000 organs in 2021. In Wichita, Ascension Via Christi St. Francis has a Level I trauma center, a regional burn center and comprehensive stroke care. Stormont Vail in Topeka is a 586-bed referral hospital for northeast Kansas. When a bed opens up at one of these, we can drive your loved one from wherever they are to the admitting door, and home afterward.
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Fort Myers, FL ↔ Kansas City1,378 road mi
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Denver, CO ↔ Kansas City603 road mi
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Tampa, FL ↔ Wichita1,413 road mi
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Colorado Springs, CO ↔ Topeka513 road mi
These four are examples, and we aren't affiliated with any of them. Any hospital, cancer clinic, rehab center or house in Kansas works the same way. Mileage is measured between city centers.
A discharge desk, a nursing home, a rehab wing or a farmhouse, anywhere in Kansas: we'll load or unload at any of them, whichever way your loved one is headed. Most Kansans live toward the east, with more than 1.5 million on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro and around Topeka, Lawrence and Manhattan. Out west, the towns thin out and the drives get long. Goodland is 323 road miles from Wichita, and Garden City is 375 from Kansas City, Kansas. A family coming home from Denver or Tampa can land in any Kansas town too.
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Wichita ↔ Phoenix, AZ1,011 road mi
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Overland Park ↔ Chicago, IL522 road mi
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Kansas City ↔ Orlando, FL1,243 road mi
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Topeka ↔ Davenport, IA425 road mi
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Olathe ↔ Cedar Rapids, IA335 road mi
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Garden City ↔ Denver, CO309 road mi
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Hays ↔ Colorado Springs, CO323 road mi
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Salina ↔ Des Moines, IA369 road mi
You can run any of these the opposite way. We show miles from city center to city center, and we price your trip from the actual pickup and drop-off addresses.
One call and we handle everything, and you'll have a real number today.
“The crew was hired to drive my mother from Kansas City Missouri to DownEast Maine. It's a long drive and requires you to navigate some not so fun cities like Boston.”
Tell us the pickup and the drop-off. Maybe that's a Wichita hospital and a house in Phoenix, or a Denver rehab center and a farm outside Hays. Before the day is out, you'll have one number for the whole drive.
Case managers at KU Med, Stormont Vail or a hospital in Florida may not give you much notice. Hand us the date they gave you. Discharge deadlines come with this work, and we'll plan the trip around yours as closely as we can.
Our crew comes to the room and moves your loved one onto the bed in the Sprinter. No one has to wheel them out to the curb and wait. A medical professional stays with them the full distance, and one relative can come along.
Tampa to Wichita is 1,413 road miles. Drivers take turns on a run like that, so your loved one can sleep while the van covers ground, and nobody has to rush the last stretch across Kansas.
I-70 crosses the whole state through Kansas City, Topeka, Salina and Hays. I-35 runs about 235 miles from the Oklahoma line through Wichita and Emporia, then up through Olathe and Overland Park. Part of it is the Kansas Turnpike, including a 35-mile Flint Hills stretch with no exits. I-135 links Wichita to Salina in about 96 miles. From Liberal, US-54 heads northeast, two lanes through Pratt, and becomes Kellogg Avenue in Wichita. So a trip to or from Liberal runs on slower road than one to or from Olathe, and we plan for that.
Sherman, Wallace, Greeley and Hamilton counties sit on the Colorado line and run on Mountain Time, an hour behind Wichita. So confirm the time on any discharge from Goodland or any arrival there. Geography can surprise you there too. Goodland is 198 road miles from Denver and 323 from Wichita, so the closest big city may be in another state.
Kansas averages more than 50 tornadoes a year, and severe weather comes mostly in spring and early summer. On May 4, 2007, an EF5 tornado damaged or destroyed about 95% of Greensburg, on US-54 west of Pratt, and left the county hospital unable to care for patients. Nobody can forecast that weeks out. If your date lands in storm season, leave a little room around it. We watch the forecast and move the schedule when the road isn't safe.
Snowfall runs from around 5 inches a year at the state's southern edge to about 35 in the far northwest. That far corner is Goodland and Colby country. Wind can matter as much as snow. In December 2021, blowing dust and crashes closed I-70 from the Colorado line all the way east to Salina. For a winter trip into or across western Kansas, tell us early, so there's time to go a day sooner or later.
Many small Kansas towns have been shrinking for generations. Historian Daniel C. Fitzgerald counts more than 6,000 ghost towns and dwindling communities in the state, while parts of Johnson County have grown fast. So the call from a small-town hospital may reach a son in Overland Park or a daughter in Iowa. We can bring your parent to you, and take them back if they decide they want to go home.
The metro spans the Kansas-Missouri border. KU Med sits on the Kansas side, at 4000 Cambridge Street, and the proton therapy center is nearby on Rainbow Boulevard. The Cancer Center lists 13 locations around the metro, some in Missouri, including Briarcliff and Lee's Summit. So send us the street address, not only the city name. Cancer care or a transplant may also mean two trips, one to admission and one home at discharge, and we drive both.
Your quote is one figure for the entire drive, and it's the figure you pay once you approve it. Six things push it up or down, and they work the same if you're leaving Goodland or coming home to Topeka.
Distance counts most, and our minimum is 200 miles. Hays to Kansas City clears that at 267. Wichita to Kansas City comes in at 196, so exact addresses decide it. Long drives cost less per mile, so 1,000 miles comes to less than five times the price of 200.
A stable patient who mainly needs a bed and someone watching over them costs less. Continuous oxygen or a bariatric lift and stretcher adds to the price.
A run such as Fort Myers to Kansas City, 1,378 road miles, carries two drivers trading off, plus the medical professional. More miles take more crew time.
A trip we can plan ahead costs less than a van leaving tomorrow morning. For dates during storm season or a western Kansas winter, give us a heads-up, so there's room to shift.
The entrance at KU Med is one kind of job. A farmhouse at the end of a dirt lane in Ness County is another. Tell us about the lane, any stairs and how wide the hallway is, at both ends.
Oxygen, a specialty mattress and bariatric equipment come along only when your loved one needs them. You don't pay for gear they won't use.
You pay us directly by card, check or bank transfer. If you'd like to spread out the cost, CareCredit financing is an option. We also give veteran discounts.
Recent reviews from families we've driven across the lower 48.
“My mother Inlaw was the patient. She can’t stop raving about the three of them. They were all so nice to have got here safely comfortably even with her dog.”
“Myriam was a great communicator. She let me know when they were on their way, when they left and she texted me photos and texts of the trip with my mother. She let me know when they arrived and she stayed with my mom to check her overall health and change her diapers. She was so sweet.”
“This was a wonderful experience for both my mom and myself. The staff were always making mom feel Comfortable and taking care of her medical needs. Joshua did an amazing job with keeping me updated thru texts and photos along the route. I was even notified when 45 mins out so I was able to be…”
More than 10 million patient miles since 2010
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A farmhouse outside Colby and a daughter's home in Denver. A hospital bed in Tampa and a house in Wichita. Send us your two addresses. You'll get one number today, and we'll work out the rest of the drive from there.
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