Wheelchair Van Transport in Burlington City, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Burlington City

Burlington City is 3.75 square miles on the Delaware, with Burlington Township on its landward sides, Bristol Township, Pennsylvania across the water, and 9,743 residents at the 2020 census. There is no hospital inside the city line. The nearest 24-hour emergency department and inpatient beds are at Virtua Willingboro Hospital, 218A Sunset Road in Willingboro — the far end of the same Sunset Road that runs out of town, and the same building where Virtua also runs dialysis and a wound care center. Virtua Mount Holly Hospital at 175 Madison Avenue is the larger campus, 383 beds carrying cardiac catheterization, neurosurgery and a Primary Stroke Center. Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills takes cardiac, vascular and lung cases, and Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton is a Level II trauma center.

The hard part is rarely the highway; it is the last thirty feet. Burlington was founded by English Quakers in 1677, and the city grew in a grid off the main crossroads of High and Broad streets — the historic district still runs from the Delaware River back to High, West Broad, Talbot and Reed, on tight old blocks around Pearl, York, Penn and Union. The River Line threads through town on a single track with streets flanking it on either side, too narrow to double without taking road lanes, and both city stops, Burlington Towne Centre and Burlington South, sit on West Broad Street. On blocks like these a lift van often has to deploy its ramp at the curb, into the travel lane. Our drivers plan the approach before they pull up, walk the rider out door through door, then lock the chair down with a four-point tie-down and add a lap-and-shoulder belt.

Dialysis sets the schedule here, and the chairs sit out Sunset Road. Fresenius Kidney Care Burlington at 115 Sunset Road runs in-center hemodialysis — for most patients a standing appointment three days a week that does not move for weather or weekends — and Complete Care at Burlington Woods shares the same address. Public transit will not cover that. NJ Transit's passenger window on the River Line's shared single track runs 5:30 a.m. to 10:10 p.m., with nothing before or after it. Burlington County's paratransit, SEN-HAN Transit, carries residents sixty or older or certified disabled, but medical rides run Monday through Friday only and must be reserved two days to two weeks ahead — which leaves Saturday, Sunday and the same-day hospital discharge uncovered. Delta answers the phone twenty-four hours a day and dispatches on weekends. Call (973) 389-3110 for a free quote or to set a standing schedule.

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 Burlington City patient cannot sit upright for the journey, a wheelchair van is the wrong vehicle and we will arrange stretcher transport instead.