{"id":272731,"date":"2026-04-17T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:32:19","slug":"pilots-help-patients-reach-medical-care-through-angel-flight-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272731\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots help patients reach medical care through Angel Flight East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByMatteo Iadonisi<\/p>\n<p>Friday, April 17, 2026 3:02PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Pilots help patients reach medical care through Angel Flight East\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania &#8212; pilots volunteer their time to transport patients far and wide to access specialized medical care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It all happens thanks to an organization called &#8216;Angel Flight East.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Based at Wings Field in Blue Bell, Angel Flight East connects patients to a network of hundreds of volunteer pilots. They operate across the northeastern United States from Virginia to Maine to Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Angel Flight relies on donations to keep operations running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch our video above to see how pilots Warren Hopely and Jide Olusanya recently helped Edward Joseph James get back home from an important appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">To learn more about Angel Flight East, visit their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/angelflighteast.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByMatteo Iadonisi Friday, April 17, 2026 3:02PM BLUE BELL, Pennsylvania &#8212; pilots volunteer their time to transport patients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[14715,118265,112,114,113,1280,27537,118266,1967],"class_list":{"0":"post-272731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-airplanes","9":"tag-angel-flight-east","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-health-care","14":"tag-patients","15":"tag-pilots","16":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}