- Dates
- 2009-11-04 – 2009-11-24
- Kind
- Medical
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcaretransportationcommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Joyce Runberg’s January 2010 account describes Wings of Mercy flights from Beaver Island to Mayo Clinic care on November 4, 2009, and the return flight before Thanksgiving. She also explained how Islanders could seek help arranging similar medical transportation.
Evidence limits
This is a public first-person account with limited medical detail, not a medical chart, flight log, or complete service history.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- A participant announced a Wings of Mercy flight scheduled to take her mother from Beaver Island to Mayo Clinic for back surgery and received community support. This is a family logistics announcement, not a flight log or medical record; the later Beacon account provides the stronger retrospective description.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002004
- Beaver Beacon, January 2010, "Kudos to Wings of Mercy and Mayo Clinic."Reports November 4 and pre-Thanksgiving Wings of Mercy flights for Joyce Runberg's Mayo Clinic treatment, and describes the service's referral help for Islanders needing medical transport. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the first-person medical-transport account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The institutional notice announced a September 20 Senior Appreciation Picnic presentation by Wings of Mercy president Terry Boer and Joyce Runberg, explaining eligibility and medically needed flights. It documents outreach and the planned meeting, not a flight record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001916
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Wings of Mercy transports Joyce Runberg for Mayo Clinic care, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-wings-of-mercy-runberg-transport-2009/, accessed [date], citing jrunberg and participants, “wings of mercy,” Beaver Island Forum, November 3–4, 2009. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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