Wheelchair Van Transport in Lodi, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Lodi

Lodi packs 26,207 people into 2.27 square miles and owns no hospital bed, no dialysis chair and no Medicare-certified nursing home — Medicare's own facility files return zero for all three inside the borough. Route 17, U.S. Route 46 and Interstate 80 all pass through here, which is excellent if you drive and beside the point if you cannot. The Saddle River runs through Lodi on its way to the Passaic, which it joins down at Garfield and Wallington; there is a stream gage on it right here in the borough, and the National Weather Service sets minor flood stage at 5.5 feet — which is why pickup windows in Lodi get built with slack in a wet week rather than cut to the minute. Our vans are ramp- or lift-equipped, so a rider boards seated in their own wheelchair and is secured with a four-point tie-down plus a separate lap-and-shoulder belt: no standing, no pivoting, no transfer at the curb.

The closest hospital is in the town next door, due east. Hackensack University Medical Center sits at 30 Prospect Avenue in Hackensack, which shares a border with Lodi — Hackensack Meridian's flagship, and an American College of Surgeons verified Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center. Going the other way, southwest through Garfield and across the Passaic River, St. Mary's General Hospital at 350 Boulevard in Passaic is the nearest emergency department on the Passaic County side. North in Paramus are The Valley Hospital at 4 Valley Health Plaza and county-owned Bergen New Bridge Medical Center at 230 East Ridgewood Avenue, which pairs acute care with 574 Medicare-certified nursing beds — more than any other nursing home in New Jersey, and where a good many Lodi families end up, because the borough has no nursing beds of its own.

Dialysis is the trip that repeats, and Lodi has no chairs: Medicare's dialysis file lists none in the borough, none in Garfield next door, and none in Passaic city either. Treatment days mean crossing into Maywood for DaVita Hackensack Dialysis — which despite the name is at 113 West Essex Street in Maywood — or into Hackensack for FMC Hackensack at 458 Passaic Street. Both run a late shift, and the late shift is the ride hardest to get covered. Inside the borough there is AFC Urgent Care at 2 Memorial Drive, open seven days, which handles the walk-in but not the standing appointment. There is an irony in the geography, too: Bergen County runs its Community Transportation division — the door-to-door service for seniors and residents with disabilities — out of an office at 178 Essex Street in Lodi. The county's published list of covered trips runs to routine medical visits, physical therapy, shopping and Meals on Wheels; a standing dialysis chair is not on that list. Delta dispatches 24/7.

Every trip is quoted individually — distance, whether you need a return leg, stairs at either address, and the time of day all matter. Call (973) 389-3110 for a free quote, or use the estimate calculator below. If a Lodi patient cannot sit upright for the journey, a wheelchair van is the wrong vehicle and we will arrange stretcher transport instead.