Wheelchair Van Transport in New Brunswick, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in New Brunswick

In New Brunswick most wheelchair-van work runs toward downtown rather than away from it. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place and Saint Peter's University Hospital at 254 Easton Avenue sit about half a mile apart, and Rutgers Cancer Institute's clinical home, the Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, opened at 165 Somerset Street in June 2025. For a wheelchair user that density is a mixed blessing: appointments sit close together, but the streets around them are narrow, one-way and thick with Rutgers traffic, and the nearest curb space is often a block from the door. Our drivers know which entrances a ramp or lift van can pull up to — the main lobby valet lane on Robert Wood Johnson Way, the emergency entrance at Little Albany Street, the Somerset Street frontage at 200 and 210.

A wheelchair van is not an ambulance and it is not a stretcher vehicle. The patient stays seated in their own wheelchair, manual or power, and rolls aboard on a ramp or hydraulic lift instead of transferring into a car seat. Inside, the chair is locked to the floor with a four-point tie-down and the passenger wears a separate lap and shoulder belt. That matters in New Brunswick, where a power chair too heavy to lift into a sedan is the usual reason a family calls. Delta Medical Transportation is licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health for both wheelchair van and BLS ambulance service, so if the wheelchair van is the wrong vehicle for the trip we will say so before it is booked.

Recurring trips are the bulk of the work here. Dialysis runs go out three days a week from downtown apartment buildings, New Brunswick Housing and Redevelopment Authority properties and the subacute floors at Rose Mountain Care Center out on Route 1, heading to chairs at DaVita New Brunswick Dialysis at 303 George Street or the Dialysis Clinic Inc. center a couple of blocks down at 235 George Street. Those buildings rarely have a driveway, so pickups happen at a curb in a short loading window and the driver goes to the apartment door rather than waiting outside. Not everything stays in town: residents also travel out to Hackensack Meridian JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute on James Street in Edison and to specialists across Middlesex County, and the same van covers those runs.

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