Wheelchair Van Transport in Gloucester Township, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Gloucester Township

Gloucester Township counted 66,034 residents at the 2020 census across 23.3 square miles, and not one acute-care hospital sits inside those borders. The only hospital carrying a township address is Northbrook Behavioral Health Hospital at 425 Woodbury-Turnersville Road in Blackwood — psychiatric care, no emergency department. Sharing that same address is Elmwood Hills Healthcare Center, a 300-bed skilled nursing and rehab facility. Everything else is a ride out. The nearest acute-care hospital with a 24/7 emergency room is Jefferson Stratford Hospital at 18 East Laurel Road, in one of the eight Camden County towns the township borders. Past that, referrals run to Cooper University Hospital at 1 Cooper Plaza in Camden, Virtua Voorhees Hospital at 100 Bowman Drive, Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital at 1600 Haddon Avenue in Camden, and Jefferson Washington Township Hospital at 435 Hurffville-Cross Keys Road in Turnersville, over the Gloucester County line.

The township does run a senior bus, and its posted schedule tells you exactly what it is not. Mondays go to the Deptford Wal-Mart, the Deptford Mall and the strip malls around it. Wednesdays are the Chews Landing ShopRite, with the only bank stops of the week. Fridays are the Cross Keys Road plazas — Cross Keys Shoppes, the Target strip mall, the Acme — and no post office or bank stops at all. Tuesdays and Thursdays are monthly trip days: Turnersville Wal-Mart, Goodwill in Deptford, a thrift store, a diner. Riders have to call by 8:30 in the morning on each day they want a seat. Not one hospital, dialysis unit or doctor's office appears anywhere on that schedule, and nothing is posted for Saturday or Sunday. A Saturday discharge from Stratford, a Tuesday infusion in Voorhees, an evening ride home from Camden — none of that is on the route. Delta's vans load by ramp or hydraulic lift, the rider stays in their own manual or power chair, and the chair is locked down with a four-point tie-down plus a separate lap-and-shoulder belt.

Dialysis is the other standing commitment that has to leave town. Camden County has thirteen Medicare-certified dialysis facilities and not one of them carries a Blackwood address. The closest chairs are Fresenius Kidney Care Runnemede at 170 East Ninth Avenue, in the next borough up the Black Horse Pike, and two units on Sicklerville addresses — USRC Gloucester at 601 Berlin Cross Keys Road and Fresenius Kidney Care at 510 Williamstown Road. Mailing towns are genuinely unreliable out here: Gloucester Township's own municipal building sits at 1261 Chews Landing-Clementon Road under a Laurel Springs postal address, so give us a cross street when you book instead of trusting the town on the envelope. Most of that driving lands on Route 168 — the Black Horse Pike through Blackwood and Glendora, which runs north all the way into Camden — or on Route 42, with the Atlantic City Expressway cutting across the township's southwestern portion. Call (973) 389-3110 for a free quote.

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