Every bed that moves, every patient who arrives on time, every OR that starts on schedule - it happens because a transporter made it happen. This is the home of that profession: its story, its career paths, its credentials, and its future.
Explore Certification See the Career PathWhether you're considering your first transport role or leading a department of two hundred, this site is organized around where you are.
The role, the history, and why patient flow makes transport one of the most operationally critical jobs in the hospital.
The transport career ladder, résumé and interview guidance, and how credentials change your trajectory.
A complete pathway: HPT foundations, tiered CHT® certification (CHT-1/2/3), and leadership credentials from instructor to director - 810+ credentials issued across 41 organizations.
Transport supervisors, managers, and directors have a professional association and an instructor pathway built for them.
Transport sits at the center of patient flow. A delayed pickup becomes a delayed discharge, a boarded ED patient, a late OR start. Recognizing transport as a profession - with standards, credentials, and career paths - is how hospitals fix flow at its source. That idea is explored in depth in When Beds Don't Move, the book that treats patient flow as a system with physics of its own.
The Certified Healthcare Transporter (CHT®) credential - delivered by Impact Training Company in partnership with NAHTM - is the profession's recognized mark of competence.
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