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 ways transporters can lower tension, protect themselves, and get help early when a patient or visitor becomes upset.
Practical habits that help patient transporters keep hallway and elevator trips safe, calm, and comfortable.
Healthcare transporters move patients, equipment and specimens through the hospital. Their work keeps discharges, emergency department admissions and operating room starts on time.
Not always. The HPT (Healthcare Patient Transporter) online certificate at Impact Training Online is the entry-level starting point.
The Certified Healthcare Transporter credential has three levels: CHT-1 Technical Skills Training (the what), CHT-2 Choices: Ethics for the Workplace (the why), and CHT-3 Strategic Skill Building (the how). Impact Training Company has delivered it with NAHTM since 2003.
Hospital staff complete CHTI instructor training, then deliver the training and competency validation in-house. Buying participant materials alone does not award a credential. See the certification overview.
Use the Verify a Credential page.
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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