Touch of Kindness Transportation provides non-emergency medical transportation for Hughestown residents to hospitals and clinics across the Wyoming Valley. We help seniors, people with disabilities, wheelchair passengers, stretcher passengers, and anyone who can no longer drive reach care safely, whether the trip is a few minutes into Pittston or a longer ride down the valley.
(570) 301-2532What We Provide
The core of our work for Hughestown families is recurring medical travel that quietly drains a household’s time. We keep standing schedules for dialysis and cancer treatment, provide hospital discharge rides, run wheelchair and stretcher transport, assist ambulatory passengers, and handle physical therapy trips.
Wheelchair-accessible rides with lift-equipped vehicles, secure fastening, and door-through-door passenger assistance.
Stretcher-equipped transportation for passengers who must travel lying down to appointments, discharges, or facility transfers.
Support for passengers who walk with help, use a cane or walker, or need a steady arm from the front door to the vehicle.
Standing schedules for dialysis, cancer treatment, Henry Cancer Center visits, and recurring care.
Safe rides home from hospital stays, procedures, or rehab with the right vehicle for each passenger’s mobility needs.
A caregiver or family member is always welcome to ride along at no extra charge.
Local Expertise
Although Hughestown sits right beside Pittston, its hospital trips run out into the wider Wyoming Valley. The main destination is Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township, the region’s Level II trauma center with Pearsall Heart Hospital and Henry Cancer Center.
Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton is within reach to the north for residents whose specialists are there, while clinics, dialysis centers, and specialist offices in Pittston and neighboring boroughs sit just minutes from home. We handle both the short local run and the longer trip down the valley with door-through-door care.
Major Facilities We Serve
A Small Borough in the City’s Shadow
Hughestown is close to Pittston, but closeness alone does not help a resident who cannot drive, uses a wheelchair, or needs assistance from the door.
Short Trips Still Need Care
Even a short ride into Pittston matters when the passenger is frail, recovering, or using a wheelchair. We provide the same careful assistance on short trips as on longer hospital rides.
Our Coverage Area
We serve Hughestown and the closely packed communities around it in the Greater Pittston area, along with trips south toward Wilkes-Barre and north toward Scranton. Knowing how Hughestown’s streets connect to its neighbors keeps local rides and longer medical trips quick and reliable.
Hughestown is part of Luzerne County, so its Medical Assistance Transportation Program runs through LCTA Shared Ride, the Luzerne County Transportation Authority. LCTA provides free shared rides to covered appointments for Medical Assistance recipients, but it is curb-to-curb, drivers cannot help a passenger inside the home or take a wheelchair up or down multiple steps, and out-of-county trips must be booked two weeks ahead. Our private-pay service provides door-through-door help, a dedicated vehicle, and precise arrival support when shared-ride is not enough.
Why Touch of Kindness
We know Hughestown, Pittston, nearby borough streets, routes south to Wilkes-Barre, and northbound medical trips toward Scranton.
Wheelchair-accessible and stretcher-equipped vehicles with secure fastening and careful passenger assistance.
We answer day and night, including weekends and holidays, for recurring care, discharges, and urgent scheduling needs.
Common Questions
For most Hughestown residents, the main hospital trip runs down the valley to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township. We confirm the correct East, West, emergency, Pearsall Heart Hospital, or Henry Cancer Center entrance before the ride.
Because Hughestown sits right against Pittston, many everyday medical trips are short ones to nearby clinics, dialysis centers, and doctors’ offices. We handle these short runs with the same door-through-door care as longer rides.
LCTA covers many Hughestown trips, but curb-to-curb service means the driver cannot help a passenger from inside the home or down the front steps, and shared scheduling does not guarantee a set arrival time.
For Hughestown patients traveling several times a week to dialysis or the Henry Cancer Center, we set a fixed weekly schedule built around the clinic’s timing, so rides are reserved without rebooking each time.
Yes. A caregiver or family member is always welcome to ride along at no extra charge.
Yes. We provide wheelchair-accessible, stretcher-equipped, and assisted ambulatory rides throughout Hughestown, Greater Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and the Wyoming Valley.