Wheelchair Van Transport in Maplewood, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Maplewood

Maplewood has no hospital inside its borders, and that is the whole logistical story here. Essex County's hospitals sit in Newark, Belleville, Livingston, Glen Ridge, Cedar Grove and West Orange — none of them in Maplewood. So inpatient care, infusion suites and most specialists mean leaving the township: north and west to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, or east through Irvington to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center on Lyons Avenue in Newark. Inpatient rehab admissions frequently go north to Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange. Some Maplewood patients are followed at Overlook Medical Center in Summit instead — a drive west that crosses out of Essex County and into Union. Delta runs wheelchair vans to all of them, from Totowa, around the clock.

Maplewood does have a dialysis unit of its own: Fresenius Kidney Care Maplewood, at 2130 Millburn Avenue. Its chairs open at five in the morning. Monday, Wednesday and Friday the unit runs until seven at night; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday it runs until three in the afternoon. That means a pre-dawn pickup on Millburn Avenue and a Saturday-afternoon ride home are ordinary requirements for a Maplewood dialysis patient, not exceptions. Delta dispatches seven days a week, overnight included, so the 5 a.m. Monday chair and the Saturday chair get the same van — and standing weekly rides can be set up in advance so the schedule repeats without a new call each week.

The other Maplewood constraint is the train. NJ Transit's Maplewood station, at 145 Dunnell Road by Maplewood Avenue in the Village, is not listed among the railroad's accessible stations; South Orange, the next stop east on the Morris & Essex Lines, is. For a wheelchair user that takes rail off the table locally and puts every medical trip on surface streets — Springfield Avenue, which carries Route 124 across the township and ends at the Irvington line, plus Valley Street and Millburn Avenue. Delta works door to door on those roads, including at Winchester Gardens, the Springpoint life plan community on Elmwood Avenue. The rider stays in their own wheelchair, boarding by ramp or lift and secured with a four-point tie-down and a lap-and-shoulder belt.

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