Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Niles, IL

Niles has run a village Free Bus for more than five decades, with routes that loop past shopping centers, public buildings and within walking distance of most homes. For an older resident running errands, it is a real help, and many Niles seniors ride it regularly.

Medical trips are a different problem. The Free Bus runs set routes during the day, roughly mid-morning to late afternoon. It does not come to the door, does not help a rider down the front steps, and does not run at 6 AM when a dialysis chair opens or at 7 PM when a hospital finally discharges a patient. A rider in a wheelchair, or one who cannot sit up, needs a different kind of vehicle entirely.

Niles is also surrounded by large hospitals just outside its borders. Advocate Lutheran General in Park Ridge is a Level I trauma center with a children's hospital. Resurrection Medical Center, now part of Prime Healthcare, is to the south. Endeavor Health's Skokie and Glenbrook hospitals are close to the east and north. Those are short drives, but not walks.

We fill in where the bus stops: door-to-door rides at the hour the appointment requires, with the vehicle and help the rider needs, priced per leg before you book.

Many Niles households include an older parent living with adult children who work during the day. Those families use standing orders so the ride to a weekly specialist visit happens whether or not anyone can leave work, and they have one number to call when something changes.