Hospitals need transporters who are ready on day one. The Certified Healthcare Transporter (CHT) curriculum gives your college, workforce board, or training program a proven, competency-based path into hospital work, with a national professional credential at the end.
The CHT program began as a college program. Savannah Technical College established a Healthcare Transporter Technical Certificate of Credit with the State of Georgia, as part of a Savannah workforce effort with local hospitals and community partners. In 2002, Impact Training Company and the National Association of Healthcare Transport Management (NAHTM) adapted that curriculum into national competencies and a portable professional credential. Today the same curriculum runs inside hospitals across the country.
A student meets the same CHT performance standard whether learning happens in a college lab, on a hospital floor, or in a hybrid cohort.
11 topics, including infection control, BLS, equipment, safe patient handling, communication, and safety. Students are rated on 80 observed competency items and finish with one complete supervised transport, done without prompting.
9 modules on professional values, courtesy, emotional maturity, trustworthiness, and safe job performance. Each module ends with a mastery test and an observed period of on-the-job behavior.
3 modules and 22 topics on learning, communicating, and solving problems strategically, with three mastery tests and a culminating performance assessment.
Every course uses the same evidence model: knowledge, demonstration, applied practice, and observed performance. Attendance alone never earns the credential.
Your college offers the CHT courses as a credit or noncredit workforce program, taught by faculty who hold the CHTI instructor credential, with clinical practice at an affiliated hospital. Students earn your college's award, and ITC issues the CHT credential once validation is complete.
Workforce boards and training providers can fund cohorts for new entrants or incumbent workers. Training is delivered with a hospital partner so students practice under supervision and can move straight into open transport roles.
Your faculty or training staff can earn the Certified Healthcare Transporter Instructor (CHTI) credential, which authorizes them to teach the CHT courses and validate student performance.
Approves the program, sets admissions, appoints faculty, and decides credit or noncredit status and transcript language under its own policies.
Licenses the current curriculum, qualifies and calibrates CHTI faculty, supplies instructor and participant materials, and reviews every credential package before issuing the CHT.
Provides supervised clinical practice, qualified preceptors, and orientation to facility policy, and shares feedback on how graduates perform.
Tell us about your school or workforce program and the hospitals you work with. We will follow up to talk through the options.
See how hospitals certify their own departments through the in-house CHTI model.
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