Wheelchair Van Transport in Livingston, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Livingston

A wheelchair van is not an ambulance, and it is not a stretcher vehicle. It is a van fitted with a hydraulic lift or a fold-out ramp, and the passenger never leaves their own chair — the crew rolls the chair aboard, locks it into a four-point tie-down, and adds a separate lap-and-shoulder belt for the person riding in it. Livingston is unusual in that it is a destination as much as an origin: the hospital is inside the township, not a drive away. But the township is spread out — 14.12 square miles, with more than 470 acres of wooded park and another 1,817 acres zoned to stay preserved — so two pickups in the same town can sit in opposite corners with a real drive between them.

Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, formerly Saint Barnabas Medical Center, is a 597-bed hospital at 94 Old Short Hills Road, on the southern side of the township near the West Orange and Millburn lines. What catches wheelchair passengers out is that the campus is not one address — and not even one town. Radiation and infusion appointments go to the Melchiorre Cancer Center at 112 Old Short Hills Road, a separate building. The medical office building at 200 South Orange Avenue holds the Livingston Surgery Center in Suite 200 and the Center for Breast Health and Disease Management in Suite 102. And several Cooperman Barnabas–branded offices at 101 Old Short Hills Road are listed in West Orange, not Livingston, on the same street. Give dispatch the street number and the suite, not just "Barnabas."

Getting around Livingston in a lift van is mostly a road problem. Route 10 crosses the Passaic River into town from Morris County and runs across the north end as Mount Pleasant Avenue. South Livingston Avenue carries the middle of the township, past the municipal building at 357 South Livingston Avenue. Eisenhower Parkway runs down the western side, and Interstate 280 — the Essex Freeway — crosses the township with an exit at Laurel Avenue. Trips that leave town cross borders fast: Roseland is north, West Orange east, Millburn and Short Hills south. To the west the Passaic River is the county line, so a short run into Florham Park or East Hanover leaves Essex County for Morris. Inpatient rehabilitation usually means Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation's 152-bed West Orange campus, just over the eastern line, and recurring dialysis runs go to centers in and around Livingston. Delta is based in Totowa, not Livingston, and is licensed in all 21 counties.

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