Wheelchair Van Transport in Franklin, NJ

Wheelchair-Accessible Transportation in Franklin

Franklin Township has no hospital of its own. It is Somerset County's largest municipality by population — 68,364 at the 2020 census, spread across 46 square miles of land — and every emergency room its residents use sits in another town. Easton Avenue runs out of the Somerset section straight across the municipal line into New Brunswick: 1135 Easton Avenue carries an 08873 address, 254 Easton Avenue an 08901 one, and at that second number stands Saint Peter's University Hospital, a 478-bed teaching hospital. Also in New Brunswick, at 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is a Level I trauma center and the state's first pediatric trauma center. Delta runs Franklin addresses to both, and to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset at 110 Rehill Avenue in Somerville, and from the Route 27 end of the township — Franklin Park and Kingston — to Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center at 1 Plainsboro Road in Plainsboro. The rider stays in their own wheelchair the whole way.

Mail here reads "Somerset, NJ 08873" or "Franklin Park, NJ 08823," and neither is a city — both are sections of Franklin Township, which confuses plenty of bookings. Kingston uses 08528, and a corner of the township even carries a Princeton 08540 address. The nursing and rehabilitation buildings inside those ZIP codes generate steady wheelchair-van work: Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at 380 DeMott Lane, licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health for 265 long-term care beds; Parker at Somerset at 15 Dellwood Lane; and Somerset Woods Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at 780 Old New Brunswick Road. Dialysis is local too — Fresenius Kidney Care Somerset at 1135 Easton Avenue treats Monday through Saturday, from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and DaVita Somerset Dialysis Center at 240 Churchill Avenue runs in-center hemodialysis, self-care and peritoneal dialysis support. Residents of every one of those buildings still need rides out for specialists, imaging and follow-ups.

Getting to any of it without a car is the real constraint. There is no NJ Transit rail station anywhere in the township's 46 square miles — the old Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad line through here became a Conrail freight branch that has sat inactive since 2011. Somerset County's DASH 851 and 852 shuttles run Monday through Friday only, carrying riders between the Bound Brook and New Brunswick rail stations by way of Davidson Avenue and Cottontail Lane in the Somerset section — an office corridor, not a hospital door — and the county's CAT 1R goes to Raritan Valley Community College. Nothing on that list is built around a dialysis chair time. "Franklin Township" is not really one address either: it is seventeen named communities strung across those 46 square miles, from Somerset and Middlebush out to Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, East Millstone and Kingston. That is why our dispatcher confirms the section and the cross street, not just the town, before a Franklin pickup goes on the board.

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