Wheelchair Van Transport in Princeton, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Princeton

Princeton does not have a hospital. It had one until 2012, when the old University Medical Center of Princeton left 253 Witherspoon Street and reopened as Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center at 1 Plainsboro Road. That is under four road miles from Nassau Street, but it is a different town and a different county — Plainsboro Township sits in Middlesex, not Mercer. Princeton House Behavioral Health, at 905 Herrontown Road, stayed in town, and Penn Medicine Princeton Health still runs 24/7 inpatient psychiatric care there. For an emergency department, inpatient surgery or hospital imaging, though, a Princeton wheelchair user is leaving the municipality, and that is exactly the trip our vans are built for.

A Princeton mailing address is not the same thing as being in Princeton, and that catches out-of-town drivers constantly. The Fresenius dialysis unit at 707 Alexander Road is addressed Princeton 08540 but physically sits in West Windsor Township. So does DaVita Princeton Junction Dialysis at 88 Princeton Hightstown Road. Carnegie Post Acute Care at Princeton — 180 skilled-nursing beds at 5000 Windrow Drive — also carries a Princeton 08540 address and stands in Plainsboro Township, Middlesex County. We confirm the municipality, not the ZIP, before a van rolls. The Alexander Road unit runs sixteen stations with no late shift, so every chair time there is a daytime slot: miss the pickup window and the run does not simply move to the evening.

Princeton's own transportation options stop short of an out-of-town medical trip. The free Loop bus runs two fixed routes, Loop Express and Loop Local, Monday through Saturday with nothing on Sunday, and neither leaves the municipality. Crosstown, the town's door-to-door program, is limited to Princeton residents sixty-five and older and people with disabilities, and it is likewise an in-town service. The Dinky runs from Princeton station at 152 Alexander Street out to Princeton Junction in West Windsor — a transfer, not a ride to a clinic door. Nassau Street through the center of town is Route 27; Route 206 comes through as Bayard Lane and Stockton Street; Washington Road crosses Lake Carnegie and puts you in West Windsor. A van that pulls to the door and keeps going past the town line closes that gap.

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