VITAL COMMUNITIES
Medical Transportation & Volunteer Driver Programs
Find A Ride
NEW HAMPSHIRE
MEDICAID TRANSPORTATION: New Hampshire residents enrolled in Medicaid who do not have a vehicle or a friend/family member who can drive them can call 844-259-4780 to request a ride. Please call at least 48 hours in advance. More details can be found here: https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/ombp/medicaid/transportation/documents/how-to-request-transportation.pdf
DIAL-A-RIDE: available in Claremont only, through Southwestern Community Services. Call 603-542-9609 or email tpalmer@scshelps.org.
Volunteer Driver Program for Sullivan County, NH: through Southwestern Community Services. Call 603-542-9609 or email tpalmer@scshelps.org.
OTHER TRANSPORTATION:
Easter Seals – serves New Hampshire
Granite State Independent Living – provides wheelchair van, non-medical transportation and other transportation assistance for New Hampshire
VERMONT
MEDICAID TRANSPORTATION:
Orange & Windsor (northern) Counties: Stagecoach Transportation Services – 802-728-3773
Windham & Windsor (southern) Counties: Shared Transportation Services – 888-633-4001
Washington County: Green Mountain Transit Agency (GMT) – 802-223-7287
Caledonia, Essex, Lamoille & Orleans Counties: Rural Community Transportation (RCT) – 802-748-8170
VETLIFT: a volunteer program giving Veterans a Lift: www.connectingcommuters.org/vetliftvt/
DIAL-A-RIDE (For seniors, people with disabilities, Medicaid recipients, and people & families in need)
- Stagecoach offers several Dial-A- Ride options. Call 802-728-3773 or email info@stagecoach-rides.org to find out whether you’re eligible for the following free or subsidized services:
- Senior Meal Program provides transportation for seniors from their homes to meal sites in Randolph, Bethel, Chelsea, Royalton, Hancock, and Bradford. Call your local senior center for details.
- Ticket to Ride Program provides door-to-door transportation to grocery stores, medical appointments, work, errands, and social events. It is free for riders over age 60 and those with disabilities when there is no other transportation available in the household.
- Medicaid/Non-Emergency Medical Transportation provides free transportation to medical appointments for Medicaid recipients living in Barnard, Bethel, Bridgewater, Hartford, Hartland, Norwich, Pomfret, Rochester, Royalton, Sharon, Stockbridge, and Woodstock, and who do not have access to a vehicle.
- The Current operates Dial-A- Ride services (including medical appointment transportation for Medicaid recipients, senior meals transportation, and shopping trips) on weekdays for eligible riders in Ascutney, Brownsville, Cavendish, Grafton, Reading, Rockingham, Springfield, Weathersfield, Westminster, Windham, and Windsor. To determine if you’re eligible or to schedule your ride, call 802-460-7433.
Give A Ride
Many people in our community have no transportation of their own, cannot use the bus and yet need to access healthcare and other critical services. Interested in becoming a volunteer driver? Contact your senior center, faith group, health or community center to find out how you can help neighbors get where they need to go. You’ll find it a rewarding experience!
Join the Stagecoach Volunteer Driver team
Stagecoach coordinates many of the volunteer drivers here in the Upper Valley. Download Stagecoach’s Volunteer Application Packet and call 802-728-3773 or e-mail info@stagecoach-rides.org to get started as a Volunteer Driver. Volunteers are reimbursed for mileage and play a crucial role in the organization.
Join Volunteers in Action!
Are you able to drive a senior to a medical appointment, hairdresser, bank, or be willing to take a neighbor along with you when you do your grocery shopping? A small amount of your time will help our elders remain healthy and independent. We will work within your schedule. Please call us at 802-674-5971. Click here for more info.
Become a volunteer driver for The Current!
Our Dial-A-Ride service to medical appointments works because of our wonderful volunteer drivers. Are you looking for something worthwhile and important to do with your time? Our clients depend on people like you to help make their lives just a little easier, and you can depend on our mileage reimbursement. Please call us at 802-460-1195 or 888-869-6287.
Become a volunteer driver for Sullivan County Transit (Southwestern Community Services)
Call 603-542-9609 or email Teri at tpalmer@scshelps.org
Transportation at Senior Centers or Social Service Agencies
Bugbee Center – van service to Bugbee senior center and grocery store for Hartford area seniors
Grafton County Senior Citizens Council – serves Lebanon area seniors
Thompson Senior Center – provides van and volunteer drivers to Woodstock (VT) area
Pathways of River Valley 603-448-2077 – serves Southern Grafton County (NH)
Transportation services available as part of participation in program.
Volunteers in Action 802-674-6711 – medical and non-medical transportation, shopping assistance, and meals-on-wheels for Windsor, West Windsor, Hartland, Reading, Westminster, Cornish, and Plainfield
West Central Behavioral Health – serves Southern Grafton County (NH)
Transportation services available as part of participation in program.
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