Searching for Transportation To Medical Appointments

COVID19 -- All riders and drivers must be fully vaccinated 14 days prior to requesting a drive, people accompanying riders must also be vaccinated, masks are mandatory while in vehicle

Small local charity with few volunteers offering drives to and from medical appointments for people navigating the challenges of aging or diminished health

• local trips only
• volunteers opportunities available

Community service provided by the following churches: Christ First, Clarkson Rd Presbyterian, Lorne Park Baptist, Sheridan United, St Bride's Anglican, St Christopher's Catholic, and St Stephen's-on-the-Hill United

Ride Connect provides transportation to and from Etobicoke, Brampton, Malton, Mississauga, Oakville, Milton and Woodbridge areas

• client base is primarily seniors and clients with disabilities
• specialize in rides to and from medical appointments, as well as grocery shopping and adult day programs
• a fleet of wheelchair accessible vans as well as large 15 accessible passenger vans and buses are available when traveling with larger groups
• view brochure for more details

COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments

• if you're unable to drive to your vaccine appointment, Ride Connect can pick you up and take you there, and return you home afterword, at no cost
• book your vaccine appointment in advance before you call for a ride
• available to all ages

Provides in-home care services for seniors * each client is assigned their own caregiver based on their needs and interests * service available at home, in assisted living home, retirement home or long term care facility * free in-home consultation

Services include:

• personal care
• home nursing care
• homemaking
• meal preparation
• overnight or 24 hour care
• companionship
• transportation and accompaniment/escort services
• Alzheimer's and dementia care
• caregiver relief/respite care
• errand running/shopping assistance

Provides non-emergency assisted transportation for individuals who are physically or cognitively disabled * offers continuous companion services for individuals who may need additional help or supervision * wheelchair transportation staff all have standard first aid and CPR/AED level C

• passengers are accompanied to and from their appointment and during the wait time
• no wait times for pick up and return for appointments
• will get passengers to their appointment on time and be there when the appointment ends
• wheelchair can be provided if required

• all services are strictly confidential
• can provide support where it is convenient and comfortable (coffee shop, home, hospital or a confidential meeting space can be arranged)
• meetings can be held throughout Halton region
• provide workshops, training, education and raising the awareness about HIV as well as presenting the most recent information about HIV

Support Services

• Individual, family and group counselling for people living with HIV, affected and allies
• Support for people with HIV, affected and allies
• Practical services including transportation for medical appointments
• Food security assistance
• Complementary therapies (accessible in Hamilton)
• Monthly support group
• Linking to local community agencies and resources

Education and Training

• HIV 101 for service providers and institutions in the region
• Harm Reduction
• Agency Overview
• Stigma and discrimination
• Healthy disclosure
• Positive Self-Management Program
• Peer volunteer training

This listing gives an overview of where to find non-emergency transportation, including wheelchair and stretcher transportation, to medical appointments


REGULAR AND/OR WHEELCHAIR-ACCESSIBLE VEHICLES:

For a list of taxi services serving Halton, see here

For a list of transit and bus services serving Halton, see here

Some commercial homemaker assistance agencies transport to medical appointments, see list here
* contact individually regarding types of vehicles available
* fee for use

Canadian Cancer Society, Driving Program
Toll free 1-888-939-3333, Email connect@cancer.ca
* connects people who need transportation to approved cancer treatment facilities with volunteer drivers
* fee for use
For more information see website

Canadian Red Cross, Burlington Branch
Toll free 1-844-843-7331, Email burlington@redcross.ca
* provides transportation in Red Cross or volunteers' private vehicles to and from medical appointments, treatments and rehabilitative therapy
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

Cancer Assistance Services of Halton Hills
Tel 905-702-8886, Email helphope@cancerassistance.org
* provides transportation for cancer patients to and from treatment centres in Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga and Brampton
* free, but donations are appreciated
For more information see separate listing here

CANES Community Care, Ride Connect
Toll free 1-877-743-3025, Email information@canes.on.ca
* provides transportation for seniors and clients with disabilities to and from medical appointments
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

Health Lync Transportation
Tel 905-290-2900, Email info@algarvetransport.ca
* provides wheelchair and stretcher transportation
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

Non Urgent Patient Transport (NUPT)
Tel 647-649-8264, Email info@nupt.ca
* provides wheelchair and stretcher ground and air transportation
* fee for use
For more information see website

Rapid City Transportation
Toll free 1-888-202-3923, E-mail info@rapidcitytransport.com
* provides door-to-door transportation for individuals requiring special care
* fee for use
For more information see website

RNR Patient Transfer Services
Toll free 1-866-567-1001
* provides wheelchair, bariatric, stretcher or pediatric transfer
* fee for use
For more information see website

Spectrum Seniors for Seniors
Toll free 1-844-422-7399
* provides driver companions in their personal vehicles to transport older adults to and from medical appointments
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

Total Care Transport Services Inc
Tel 905-878-1170, Toll free 1-888-720-7256, Email totalcare8781170@aol.com
* provides wheelchair and stretcher transportation
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

Voyago
Toll free 1-855-263-7163, Email admin@voyageurtransportation.ca
* provides wheelchair and stretcher transportation
* fee for use
For more information see website


STRETCHER TRANSPORTATION (non-emergency ambulance)
Health Lync Transportation
Tel 905-290-2900, Email info@algarvetransport.ca
* provides wheelchair and stretcher transportation
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

MedEvac Canada
Tel 416-704-2353, Email info@medevac.ca
* provides ground and air patient transfer service
* fee for use
For more information see website

Non Urgent Patient Transport (NUPT)
Tel 647-649-8264, Email info@nupt.ca
* provides wheelchair and stretcher ground and air transportation
* fee for use
For more information see website

RNR Patient Transfer Services
Toll free 1-866-567-1001
* provides wheelchair, bariatric, stretcher or pediatric transfer
* fee for use
For more information see website

Total Care Transport Services Inc
Tel 905-878-1170, Toll free 1-888-720-7256, Email totalcare8781170@aol.com
* provides wheelchair and stretcher transportation
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

Voyago
Toll free 1-855-263-7163, Email admin@voyageurtransportation.ca
* provides wheelchair and stretcher transportation
* fee for use
For more information see website


WHEELCHAIR-ACCESSIBLE VAN RENTAL
Wheelchair in Motion
Toll free 1-888-776-1102, Email contact@wheelchairinmotion.com
* provides accessible vans for rental
* fee for use
For more information see separate listing here

COVID19 -- Community Response Centre -- distribution of essential food, supplies and resources to seniors in need, contact responsecentre@lumacare.ca or main line

Food Security -- Meals on Wheels, frozen meals, fee, delivery hours extended

• weekly warm meals, free of charge
• grocery baskets at subsidized rate
• comfort package and essential items free of charge
• shopping support

Transportation -- for medical appointments such as cancer care and dialysis

Home at Last -- extended hours, follow up telephone assessments completed within 24-48 hours

Virtual support -- Healthier Living Centre, virtual exercise classes, social conversation and other activities for older adults as well as virtual social gatherings for adult day program participants, live chat Mon-Sun 9 am-5 pm, wellness check, counselling

Home support -- essential assisted living services for high risk individuals, respite care, personal care, and homemaking such as light housekeeping, food preparation, fee, free medication delivery, free lending library of sensory stimulation kits, laundry services

Adult Day program -- in-home activity based engagement, fee

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Caregiver support and homemaking service

• care coordination * client intervention and assistance
• assisted living services -- 24 hour in home support for high risk seniors
• meals on wheels -- frozen meals delivered once a week
• transportation
• volunteer and student placements

Healthier Living Centre -- independent seniors day program

• social, recreation and education programs
• congregate dining

Home at Last -- hospital discharge assistance

Non-emergency medical transportation services * transfer service can be booked online or by calling the office

• transport by stretcher or wheelchair
• room-to-room services
• one way, wait and return
• specialist and doctor appointments
• bariatric transfers
• palliative care transfers
• dialysis and cancer centre transportation
• fully trained medical attendants
• vehicles equipped with oxygen and travel wheelchairs
• local, regional and long distance transfers
• able to transport family, nurses and other escorts

Phone line offering access and referrals to community support to help keep seniors and vulnerable people home and out of hospital * services can include: respite care/personal support, transportation to medical appointments, grocery shopping / medication delivery, case management/care coordination, meals on wheels

Partnership with Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC), Senior Persons Living Connected (SPLC), and TransCare Community Support Services

Provides in-home care for seniors and other adults * services in private homes, seniors apartments and residences, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities * free consultation

Services include:

Personal care

• Alzheimer's and dementia care
• bathing, grooming and hygiene
• mobility assistance
• transferring and positioning
• toileting and incontinence care
• feeding and special diet
• medication reminders and assistance
• nursing care
• palliative care
• 24-hour care

Companionship

• grocery shopping and errands
• incidental transportation to appointments and events
• laundry and ironing
• homemaking, light housekeeping
• in-home meal preparation
• live-in services
• respite care

Providing staffing for facilities

• Personal Support Workers
• Register Practical Nurses
• Registered Nurses

Housekeeping and homemaker support
Nursing care
Transportation to medical appointments
Health education
Outreach to newcomers and seniors
Respite care
Social and recreational activities

Cancer Information Service 1-888-939-3333, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

CancerConnection.ca Online community * helps people with cancer and their loved ones share their experiences and build supportive relationships.

Smoker's Helpline 1-877-513-5333, http://www.smokershelpline.ca/ , Mon-Thu 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-6pm, Sat-Sun 9am-5pm-- information, advice and support

Wig and Breast Accessories Program 1-888-939-3333 wig and breast accessories bank via a virtual distribution system.

Services and Programs:

• Wheels of Hope

COVID19 -- shelters and respite centres run by agency open

• takeaway breakfast available Friday 10 am at 30 St Lawrence
• takeaway dinner available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 6 pm at 30 St Lawrence
• no communal dining
• meals on wheels open, call for details
• some programs remain remote, other have begun in-person activities, check website for details

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Numerous services including:

• social, recreation and education programs for low income residents of all ages
• summer day camp
• Growing Up Healthy Downtown (see separate entry) -- for families of young people in Regent Park
• English as a Second Language (ESL) classes
• breakfast program Friday 10 am
• assistance with budgeting, identification, government forms Monday-Friday 1 pm-4 pm
• income tax clinic February-April
• community development
• youth health promotion worker
• Employment Services including Literacy and Basic Skills
• Member agency of Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN)

Dixon Hall Music School

• individual or group lessons
• fees on a sliding scale

For Seniors:

• social, recreation and fitness programs
• health education
• home support services -- home help, van shopping, list shopping -- fee
• escort to medical appointments, friendly visiting, telephone security check, client intervention and assistance -- free
• Mandarin Outreach -- including settlement and newcomer services, social and cultural events, support groups and workshops

Supportive Housing Programs for Seniors

• includes personal care, essential homemaking, emergency response, and care coordination
• 4 participating buildings -- Old York Tower, Performing Arts Lodge of Canada, Older Women's Network Co-op, New Hibret Co-op

High Risk Youth Project

• one-on-one peer counselling
• social, recreational, and educational activities

COVID19 Contact for information on in-person, telephone and virtual services

• Meals on Wheels and Kosher Meals on Wheels frozen entrees delivered once per week, expanded hours 10 am-4 pm; Passover deliveries remain the same, for food or concerns contact 416-635-2860 ext 581
• iRIDE Plus Transportation clients must wear masks while in vehicle
• Adult Day Program, full day and limited capacity in-person half day sessions; virtual programming available
• phone and in-person hospice visiting by trained volunteers
• Exercise and Falls Prevention Classes available virtually and in-person Mon-Fri

Multiservice agency includes medical and non-medical home and community care support services, such as personal care and support, palliative care, home care and homemaking, hospice and respite, meals on wheels, social work, transportation

Adult Day Program
For individuals 55 years and older living with dementia, observes Jewish culture and traditions

• caregiver support and respite
• lunch, snacks and Kosher meals
• therapeutic social and recreation activities
• transportation

Exercise and Falls Prevention Classes
Classes led by physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants and specially trained staff to increase mobility, relieve pain and reduce the risk of falls by building strength and improving balance

• free
• offered online and in-person

Home Support Services
Includes caregiver support/respite care, companionship, homemaking, housekeeping, personal care, supportive housing services, palliative care

• Meals on Wheels (regular, certified Kosher, and vegetarian options)
• specialized workers for individuals with Alzheimer Disease or mental health challenges
• transportation to medical appointments, not wheelchair accessible
• fee for all home services
• some programs available in Russian

Elder Abuse Prevention Program
For individuals 55 years and older who are experiencing or have experienced abuse

• includes individual and group counselling

Social Work Services
Includes information and referral, counselling, case management, support groups, workshops

• free

Volunteer Services
Includes friendly visiting, security checks and telephone reassurance

• intergenerational programs
• volunteer hospice program

Staffing:
* Registered Nurse (RN)
* Registered Practical Nurse (RPN)
* Personal Support Worker (PSW)

Staffing hours:
* shifts
* overnight
* live-in

1. In Home Assistance
Friendly visiting

Homemaker assistance:
* in home meal preparation
* light housekeeping

Personal care:
* personal hygiene
* dressing
* mobility
* transfers/seating
* toileting
* changing beds
* directing activities of daily living
* medication reminders

2. Errands and Appointments
* medical appointments transportation

3. In Home Nursing Care
* home nursing
* geriatric home nursing
* medical/surgical home nursing
* pediatric home nursing
* medication administration

4. Other Home Health Care Case Management
* long term home health care
* in home hospice (end of life) care
* palliative care

Podiatry/foot care:
* general foot/nail care
* diabetic foot care with an RN/RPN

5. Respite
* adult respite care
* children's respite care

Staffing:
* Registered Nurse (RN)
* Personal Support Worker (PSW)

Staffing hours:
* shifts
* overnight
* live-in

1. In Home Assistance

Homemaker assistance:
* menu planning
* budgeting
* shopping
* in home meal preparation
* light housekeeping

Personal Care:
* personal hygiene
* dressing
* mobility
* transfers/seating
* toileting
* changing beds
* reminding
* directing activities of daily living
* medication reminders

2. Errands and appointments
* errand running/shopping assistance
* escort programs
* medical appointments transportation

3. In Home Nursing Care
* home nursing such as diabetic visits and wound care
* medication administration

4. Other Home Health Care Case Management
* Alzheimer's and dementia care
* palliative care
* post-op (knee surgery, hip surgery in-home transition)

5. Respite
* adult respite care
* children's respite care

Staffing:
* Registered Nurse (RN)
* Registered Practical Nurse (RPN)
* Personal Support Worker (PSW)
* companionship workers

Staffing hours:
* shifts
* overnight

1. In Home Assistance
Friendly visiting

Home delivered meals

Homemaker assistance:
* menu planning
* budgeting
* shopping
* in home meal preparation
* light housekeeping

Personal Care:
* personal hygiene
* dressing
* mobility
* transfers/seating
* toileting
* changing beds
* nutrition/food preparation
* cueing
* reminding
* directing activities of daily living

Telephone reassurance

Nutrition assessment services by a dietician

Activities of daily living assessment by an occupational therapist

2. Errands and appointments
* errand running/shopping assistance
* escort programs
* medical appointments transportation

3. In Home Nursing Care
* home nursing
* geriatric home nursing
* medical/surgical home nursing
* oncology home nursing
* psychiatric home nursing
* rehabilitative/restorative home nursing
* medication administration

4. Other Home Health Care Case Management
* long term home health care
* in home hospice (end of life) care
* palliative care

Podiatry/foot care:
* general foot/nail care
* nail conditions
* diabetic foot care with an RN/RPN

5. Therapies
* occupational therapy

6. Respite
* adult respite care

Private home care agency providing in-home care services for seniors * free in-home care consult * services are available at home, in an assisted living facility, a retirement home or in a long-term care home


Services include:

• personal care
• in-home nursing care
• post-operative care
• homemaking
• meal preparation
• live-in or overnight
• transportation to medical appointments and accompaniment/escort
• companionship
• 24-hour Alzheimer's and dementia care
• caregiver relief/respite care
• end-of-life care and family support - at home or in care facility

Staffing:
* Personal Support Workers (PSW)
* companionship workers

Staffing hours:
* hourly
* overnight
* live-in

* Veterans Affairs Canada approved Veterans Independence Program (VIP) provider

1. In Home Assistance
Friendly visiting

Alzheimer/dementia care

Homemaker assistance:
* menu planning
* budgeting
* shopping
* child care
* in-home meal preparation
* light housekeeping

Personal care:
* personal hygiene
* dressing
* mobility
* transfers/seating
* toileting
* changing beds
* nutrition/food preparation
* directing activities of daily living
* medication reminders

Telephone reassurance

2. Errands and Appointments
* errand running/shopping assistance
* escort programs
* medical appointments transportation

3. Other Home Health Care Case Management
* long term home health care
* palliative care

Podiatry/foot care:
* general foot/nail care

4. Respite
* adult respite care
* children's respite care

Non-emergency door-to-door transportation services for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to access other means of transportation
* offered to and from medical appointments and treatments, rehabilitative therapy, and adult recreation and leisure programs
* advance booking is required
* fee for service

Transportation provided in Red Cross vehicles, including wheelchair vans or volunteers' private vehicles * all volunteer drivers are pre-screened and insured

Multi-service agency addressing the health and social service needs of individuals and families in Caledon

Counselling and Care Coordination Program -- supportive counselling and other community services ; food support, help with heat and other programs available at The Exchange (see separate entry)

Caledon Specialist Clinic -- specialist medical services by referral ; in partnership with Headwaters Health Care Centre, William Osler Health System and the Central West LHIN

Newcomer and Settlement Services

• needs assessment
• information and referral to social network and community services
• assistance to complete forms and applications
• citizenship preparation classes

Participates in LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) in English -- limited childminding and transportation available to participants
EH cafe -- weekly conversation circles

Seniors Health and Wellness

• fitness and recreational workshops and programming
• offered at several sites in Bolton, Caledon East, Caledon Village and Alton

Transportation service for seniors

• rides to medical appointments and day programs
• weekly shopping and other important resources that support the activities of daily living
• travel assistance for passengers may be available as an option, check with dispatch

Volunteer opportunities

COVID19 -- office open with reduced schedule Tue-Thu 10 am-3 pm; phone, and online support and referrals available - call or email organization


Support, education and awareness, HIV supportive case management, pre/post-test counselling, treatment/medication support, interpretation and transportation support, food and nutritional support, practical/emergency assistance, harm reduction supplies and information

Rainbow Space
2SLGBTQ+ peer support, volunteer and leadership development, and peer learning and wellness promotion

• health and social services information and resources
• sexual health education and supplies
• lending library
• social and recreational activities

Non-emergency transportation to medical appointments and regular activities
such as grocery shopping and banking * volunteer drivers and trained staff escort clients who are unable to use public transportation on their own due to a disability or frail condition

Non-emergency transportation services to local and long-distance medical appointments and SCHC programs such as recreational programs, congregate dining and adult day program * shopping and general errands

Provides transportation to and from non-emergency medical appointments, grocery shopping, adult day programs, to run errands, or to other appointments or social outings. Program is delivered on a first-come, first-serve basis, and a minimum of 3 business days' notice is required.