Medical Transportation in Scottdale, Georgia
DeKalb County · 30079 · about 10.0 miles and 13 minutes from our Decatur base in typical conditions
Scottdale is an unincorporated DeKalb community of about a square mile, wedged between Decatur, Clarkston and Avondale Estates along North Decatur Road and Church Street. Ten miles and roughly 13 minutes from our base. It is a historically Black neighbourhood with deep roots around the old Tobie Grant area, a lot of long-tenured homeowners, and — because it is small and unincorporated — almost nothing written online about how to get a resident to a medical appointment. This page is our attempt at that.
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 Scottdale
The federal dialysis facility register lists no unit inside Scottdale. These are the units Scottdale residents actually travel to, and we drive to all of them.
Scottdale has no dialysis unit, and the nearest ones are minutes away
No dialysis facility appears in the federal register for 30079. That is not a gap in our service; it is simply the map. Scottdale residents dialyse in Decatur, and the three closest units — Fresenius Kidney Care Decatur on Irvin Way, Emory Dialysis at North Decatur on North Decatur Road, and Fresenius Kidney Care DeKalb-Gwinnett on Winn Way — are each well under fifteen minutes from a Church Street address.
Some Scottdale patients dialyse further out at the Memorial Drive units in Stone Mountain or on Montreal Road in Tucker, usually because that is where a chair opened up. We drive to all of them; the chair location does not change how the booking works.
Getting a vehicle to a Scottdale address
The residential streets off Church Street and around Tobie Grant are narrow, with on-street parking and short driveways. For a stretcher trip we want to know whether the vehicle can back in and how far the walk from the curb to the front door is, because a long carry changes crew planning.
North Decatur Road and East Ponce de Leon are our main approaches; Scott Boulevard and Lawrenceville Highway carry the trips heading toward the Emory campuses. None of this changes the price — mileage is measured address to address — but it does change the pickup window we quote you.
The Emory corridor is right on top of you
Scottdale sits at the eastern end of the North Decatur Road medical corridor. Emory Decatur Hospital, the Emory Clinic buildings on North Decatur, and the main Emory University Hospital campus on Clifton Road are all short drives, which makes Scottdale one of the easier places in the metro to serve for outpatient appointments and same-day discharges.
We are an independent transportation company, not affiliated with or endorsed by Emory Healthcare or any other system. We simply drive there constantly.
Family caregivers do most of the booking here
In a neighbourhood with a lot of ageing homeowners, the person arranging the ride is usually a son, daughter or church member. Two things make that easier: one escort rides free on wheelchair and stretcher trips, and the full price is shown before payment so nobody is negotiating on the phone.
Recurring bookings help too. Set the dialysis or infusion schedule once and it repeats, rather than someone re-explaining the address every week.