[Rose Ann Vinci Igoe]

I'll be having surgery at the Mayo Clinic and wonder if anyone knows of a shuttle service or transportation service for seniors here in The Villages.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Rose Ann Vinci Igoe

I'll be having surgery at the Mayo Clinic and wonder if anyone knows of a shuttle service or transportation service for seniors here in The Villages.

Try Blue Line Services (Joe Byers, 352-391-2894). We’ve used him several times for Orlando airport transportation and he is ultra-reliable. I don’t know if he drives people to Jacksonville or not but it is worth the telephone call to find out.

[villagetinker]

Other option, talk to your neighbors maybe you can work a deal they transport you and go shopping, you cover gas and a meal, etc.

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by Rose Ann Vinci Igoe

I'll be having surgery at the Mayo Clinic and wonder if anyone knows of a shuttle service or transportation service for seniors here in The Villages.

I suggest you call the Mayo clinic. I'm sure you are not the only one. Hopefully someone has found an answer. I would not ask a neighbor. It is over an hour drive from the villages, waiting at least an hour till you are checked in and over an hour return trip. Depending on surgery, you may not be mobile now or on the return trip.

[Rose Ann Vinci Igoe]

Originally Posted by DAVES

I suggest you call the Mayo clinic. I'm sure you are not the only one. Hopefully someone has found an answer. I would not ask a neighbor. It is over an hour drive from the villages, waiting at least an hour till you are checked in and over an hour return trip. Depending on surgery, you may not be mobile now or on the return trip.

I think you are right.... I will call Mayo and see what they have for transportation.... my surgery is 7 days or more in hospital, and a 3 l/2 hr drive one way. This can not be the first time esp here in the villages, so the answer is out there... and $400 round trip by bus is way crazy.

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by Rose Ann Vinci Igoe

I think you are right.... I will call Mayo and see what they have for transportation.... my surgery is 7 days or more in hospital, and a 3 l/2 hr drive one way. This can not be the first time esp here in the villages, so the answer is out there... and $400 round trip by bus is way crazy.

Personal experience at the Villages Hospital. Like a low quality very expensive hotel they have a check out time or you get billed for another day. The doctor came around early in the morning and told me I could go home that day. I told all the hospital people to prepare the bill etc. Before they could bill my insurance, I walked up to the desk and told them I was leaving. Amusing, I had a follow up with one of the doctors and she spent most of my visit lecturing me about how much extra paperwork she had to do because I left.
I politely did not say so you missed padding the bill for yet another day. Aside, it was covered by insurance. I don't recall my copay. I do recall the amount billed for five days was roughly 50,000. I think the insurance paid them roughly half that and that was accepted as payment in full.

[Michael G.]

When I hear things like this, it makes me sad.

I use to work for a company that transported Veterans from hospitals/clinics in a my medical van and
up north and would bend over backwards for the vets.

I even drove out of state to pick up a vet for his appointment.
He found out later that day the VA hosp. wanted to operate the next day.
My company, with permission from the VA let me return his wife back home 250 miles.

One time a veteran from out of town was in the hospital and insisted he needed his wheel chair at his home.
The VA sent me 512 miles one way to pick up just his chair OK'd by the VA hospital.

Some things in life just don't make sense

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

If he was using a VA hospital I’m sure the VA would be paying just like you were paid , but he is choosing to use the Mayo Clinic and that choice comes with consequences like transportation, I can’t understand what doesn’t make sense , that said I hope he gets a ride , but maybe using hospitals here, Orlando Ocala Gainesville might serve his purpose next time or better yet maybe they’ll never be another next time Uber x is $378 to Mayo in Jacksonville Uber to Mayo Clinic Tampa $207

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

When I hear things like this, it makes me sad.

I use to work for a company that transported Veterans from hospitals/clinics in a my medical van and
up north and would bend over backwards for the vets.

I even drove out of state to pick up a vet for his appointment.
He found out later that day the VA hosp. wanted to operate the next day.
My company, with permission from the VA let me return his wife back home 250 miles.

One time a veteran from out of town was in the hospital and insisted he needed his wheel chair at his home.
The VA sent me 512 miles one way to pick up just his chair OK'd by the VA hospital.

Some things in life just don't make sense

"Some things in life just don't make sense." No shortage of examples for all of us. To drive one thousand and twenty four miles to pick up a wheel chair was nice but unless it was a special wheel chair, it is likely the VA had one to lend him.

The original poster with a medical issue, you often are told you need to wait weeks for your treatment. Many/ most do not think how am I going to get there. We've all been there.