Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Elmwood Park, NJ

Elmwood Park straddles the Passaic River on the Bergen/Passaic county line, and the Route 4 and Route 80 interchanges that cut through the borough are exactly what make it easy to reach from our Totowa base. The town went by East Paterson until 1973, and its older neighborhoods — Cherry Hill, Dundee Lake, Passaic Junction, and Rosemont — are home to a lot of seniors and residents living with chronic conditions who need a scheduled ride to treatment rather than an ambulance. For them we run wheelchair van service, ambulatory rides, and stretcher trips, and being just across the river means short lead times on morning pickups along Broadway and Market Street.

There is no hospital inside the borough, but the county line works in a patient's favor here. St. Mary's General Hospital sits just over in Passaic and St. Joseph's University Medical Center — a Level II trauma center — is right next door in Paterson, so the two closest options are both a few minutes west. Head east on Route 4 and you reach The Valley Hospital in Paramus and Hackensack University Medical Center. When someone is being released after a stay, we handle the ride home from discharge on the schedule the floor gives us, van or stretcher depending on how the patient travels.

Dialysis is the standing appointment we see most in Elmwood Park — three mornings a week, the same chair, the same clock. Our regulars on recurring dialysis runs often go to DaVita Hackensack Dialysis on West Essex Street up in Maywood, a quick hop over the river. We also carry residents to rehab centers and specialist offices across Bergen and Passaic, and the same drivers cover the neighboring towns — Fair Lawn and Saddle Brook to the north, Garfield across the river, and Paterson to the west.