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 PathNational Patient Transport Week runs November 1-7. Every shift, transporters keep patients moving safely and care teams connected, and this week we say thank you for the steady hands, the calm words and the miles walked.
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Whether 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.
Start with online HPT foundations, explore hospital-based CHT Levels 1-3, or learn about the CHTI instructor pathway. Management and advanced leadership programs have distinct availability requirements.
Transport supervisors, managers, and directors have a professional association and an instructor pathway built for them.
Plan instructor-led training and workplace competency validation for your team. Participant materials support the program; purchasing them does not award a credential.
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.
Explore practical guidance for training new staff, developing credentials, and improving department performance.
Practical habits that help patient transporters keep hallway and elevator trips safe, calm, and comfortable.
A focused measurement plan for response time, trip turnaround, readiness, safety, and the reasons behind delays.
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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