Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Fairfield, NJ

Fairfield is one of the more spread-out towns in Essex County, built around the Route 46 commercial corridor and the business parks and warehouses that line Passaic Avenue and Sand Road. Homes sit on wide, tree-lined streets that back up to the Passaic River and low-lying green land near the Van Ness House on Little Falls Road, and the township shares borders with West Caldwell and North Caldwell to the east. Because the town is so decentralized, a medical trip here rarely means a short walk to a clinic, it means a ride out to a hospital or specialist several towns over. Older residents and workers recovering from procedures make up a good share of the calls we get, and many of those rides run on Medicaid coverage using our wheelchair van service.

Fairfield has no hospital of its own, so the nearest full-service care is St. Joseph's Wayne Medical Center on Hamburg Turnpike, right across the Passaic River in Wayne. For surgical and specialty work, patients head to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston or Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair. When someone is being sent home after a stay, we handle the discharge ride at the pace the patient needs, whether that is a wheelchair van or a stretcher, and we time the pickup to the actual discharge rather than a guess.

Standing dialysis appointments are the backbone of our weekly Fairfield schedule. Patients on three-day-a-week treatment count on the same driver and the same window, so we lock in those recurring dialysis trips to centers around Wayne and West Essex and hold the slot session after session. Closer to home, Fairfield has healthcare along Route 46 and Passaic Avenue, including Canfield Medical Imaging for radiology work and +MEDRITE Fairfield Urgent Care for walk-in needs. We also carry patients on to Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, and we cover the neighboring towns of Little Falls and Wayne just over the county line.