Through the use of our daily bus service to Rockland and Westchester County hospitals and the assistance of our dedicated volunteers, this essential service is provided for patients requiring transportation to doctors and hospitals. These patients, many of them seniors who have no one to whom they can turn and others whose condition or treatments make them incapable of going alone, depend not only on the rides to and from medical facilities but on the support and caring provided with that ride.

Dozens of calls come in daily requesting transportation. Some requests are for local appointments, Good Samaritan, Helen Hayes, Nyack Hospitals or to one of the many Rockland doctors. Other requests are for long distance transportation into Westchester, Manhattan, New Jersey, Queens, the Bronx and Connecticut. Some of these requests can be met by our own bus service but many others require the assistance of our volunteers.

As these calls come in, our Transportation Coordinator begins her task of matchmaking – coordinating patients’ specific needs with volunteers who are available to meet those needs on that particular day and at that particular time. The needs of the callers vary. While some require only occasional servicing others undergoing long term treatments will require transportation on a regular basis sometimes as often as 3-4 times weekly. Whatever the needs may be they are undertaken with a determination to ensure the comfort and sensitivity of the patient.