Medical Transportation in East Point, Georgia
Fulton County · 30344 · about 15.4 miles and 20 minutes from our Decatur base in typical conditions
East Point sits just inside I-285 on the southwest side, 15.4 miles and about 20 minutes from our Candler Road base. It is an older, mostly single-family city — Jefferson Park, Conley Hills, Colonial Hills, Frog Hollow — with a walkable historic downtown on Main Street and a lot of houses built long before anyone thought about wheelchair access. There is no registered dialysis unit inside 30344, so East Point patients travel, and most of them travel south.
Insurance and private pay. Heart2Heart bills insurance for medically necessary transports such as dialysis, wound care and emergency-department related trips — coverage depends on the plan and is not guaranteed, and we can’t confirm accepted plans or authorization rules online. Rides booked and paid for directly on this website are paid by card at booking. We are not a Georgia Medicaid NEMT provider. If you have Medicaid transportation benefits, Georgia’s broker Verida arranges those rides at no cost to you — call 404-209-4000 (Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett) or 678-510-4555 (North Georgia), at least 3 business days ahead. Heart to Heart does not bill the VA or accept VA benefits as payment. Veterans may book and pay privately. For transportation arranged or paid for by the VA, contact your VA facility’s Beneficiary Travel office before booking.
There is no dialysis center in East Point
The federal dialysis facility register lists no unit inside East Point. These are the units East Point residents actually travel to, and we drive to all of them.
No dialysis center in East Point — where the chairs actually are
The federal register lists no dialysis facility in 30344. East Point residents dialyse mostly to the south: Fresenius Kidney Care Atlanta on Phoenix Parkway in College Park, and the two Upper Riverdale Road units in Riverdale — Fresenius Kidney Care Clayton County with 31 stations and DaVita Southern Crescent.
Those are 10 to 20 minute drives from an East Point address in normal traffic, which makes a standing thrice-weekly booking practical. Each unit has its own page here with the exact building address and clinic phone number, because when a chair time changes the clinic is who you need, not us.
Pre-war housing, high porches and interior stairs
Jefferson Park, Conley Hills and the streets around downtown are full of 1920s-to-1950s houses raised well off the ground: five to eight front steps, a narrow porch, and often a bathroom that is not on the main floor. For wheelchair passengers that means a two-person crew as a default rather than an exception.
For a bed-bound passenger it means a stair chair and a real plan for the turn at the bottom of the steps. Step count and porch width are the two things we most want in the booking notes. One sentence from you prevents a failed pickup.
The Cleveland Avenue and Washington Road approaches
We come in either on I-20 to I-285 and out Camp Creek Parkway, or straight down Cleveland Avenue depending on the address and the hour. Washington Road, Main Street and Delowe Drive carry most of the local movement, and the MARTA rail corridor cuts the city in a way that makes some short trips longer than the map suggests.
None of that changes your price, which is base fare plus measured driving mileage. It does change the pickup window, which is why we quote a window rather than a minute.
Grady discharges are a regular East Point run
A large share of our East Point work is taking someone home from Grady Memorial after an admission, often a patient who arrived by ambulance and has no way back. Those bookings are easiest when the discharge planner gives us the floor and a callback number, since actual release times slip by hours.
We are independent — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or contracted to Grady or any other hospital. All trips are private pay, priced up front, with no insurance billing (except ambulance dialysis) and no invoice arriving later.