Question 1

Do you provide patient transport for post-discharge / surgery recovery?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Common: hospital discharge to home or hotel, particularly post-procedural. Driver coordinates pickup zone with discharge staff (often Patient Discharge for outpatient, or the specific tower for inpatient). We accommodate slow boarding, prescription pickup en route, and home-arrival assistance. Wheelchair-accessible vehicles available with advance request.

Question 2

Which SF Bay hospitals do you serve?

Accepted Answer

All major systems: UCSF (Parnassus, Mission Bay, Mt Zion); Stanford Health (Stanford Hospital + Lucile Packard Children's); Kaiser Permanente (SF Geary, Oakland, Santa Clara, South SF, Redwood City, Walnut Creek); Sutter Health (CPMC Van Ness + Davies + Pacific, Mills-Peninsula Burlingame, Alta Bates Summit Berkeley/Oakland, Eden Castro Valley); Dignity Health (Sequoia Redwood City, Saint Francis SF); John Muir Walnut Creek + Concord; El Camino Health Mountain View + Los Gatos; MarinHealth Greenbrae; Washington Hospital Fremont; Stanford Children's. Plus VA SF Medical Center and the major surgery centers.

Question 3

Do you handle medical-tourism international arrivals?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Bay Area is one of the leading global medical-tourism destinations (UCSF for oncology and transplant, Stanford for cardiology and neurosurgery, Kaiser for international transplant). We meet international arrivals at SFO Customs, coordinate language preferences with the patient's care team, and deliver to either the hospital or a pre-procedure hotel. Common from Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Singapore), Middle East, India, Latin America. NDA discretion standard for high-profile international patients.

Question 4

Can you stage at the hospital for outpatient and recurring appointments?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Cancer-treatment regimens (radiation, infusion, immunotherapy) often run 4-12 weeks of recurring visits. We set up recurring transport patterns for patients and family. Common: Marin or Peninsula home to UCSF Mission Bay 3x/week for radiation, with stop-and-wait pricing. Single monthly invoice on a corporate-account model.

Question 5

Do you do family-visit transport for hospitalized patients?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Multi-day hospital stays where family members rotate visits: we provide hotel-to-hospital and back, daily. Often coordinated with hospital social work or patient relations for family staying at Family House (UCSF) or Ronald McDonald House (Lucile Packard) or partner hotels.

Question 6

Are your vehicles wheelchair-accessible?

Accepted Answer

Standard Black SUVs accommodate folding-wheelchair passengers (chair folds into the cargo area). For non-folding power chairs or higher-acuity mobility, we coordinate with affiliated wheelchair-van operators on advance notice. Note our service is non-emergency Black SUV; ambulance or medical-transport needs are a separate referral.

Question 7

Do you coordinate with hospital concierge / patient advocate teams?

Accepted Answer

Yes. UCSF and Stanford International Services teams route patient transport through approved vendors; we've worked with both for years. Patient-advocate teams call dispatch directly. Discharge planners coordinate post-procedure pickup. Hospital social work coordinates family-visit transport on extended stays.

Question 8

What about clinical-trial / research-program patient transport?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Many UCSF, Stanford, and biotech clinical-trial patients travel from elsewhere in the US (or internationally) for trial participation. Recurring transport between hotel and the trial site, often weekly or bi-weekly for months. We accept research-program billing accounts.

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