Metropolitan healthcare services, inc.

Certified by The Joint Commission

Patient Transporters

On-Time, All the Time

At MHS, our patient transporters help your hospital’s patients get to the correct place in the right amount of time, freeing up your nursing and clinical staffs time to conduct their assigned duties.
Our patient transporters are highly-trained in all relevant patient transporter programs.

A woman in a wheelchair is being helped by a nurse in a hospital hallway.

Additional Benefits of Patient Transporters Include:​

  • Alleviate excessive patient wait times
  • Brings a smoother, more efficient and safer operation of patient transportation
  • Proven to enhance patient care time for nurses
  • Improve room turnover times
  • Increase department efficiency with on-time patient arrivals and pick- ups, ultimately
    improving patient satisfaction scores
  • Transporters trained by certified National Association of Healthcare Transport
    Management (NAHTM) trainer
  • Patient transporter training programs include: hospital philosophy, ethics, clinical
    settings, safety, cleanliness, communication, HIPAA, OSHA

Training

All MHS Patient Transporters complete a minimum of 40 hours of
training to include:

  • Observation (1 :1, 2:1 cohorting, distance safety, and purposeful rounding)
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification
  • Crisis Prevention and Intervention Institute (CPI) certification
  • Universal precautions including isolation, hand hygiene, and personal protective
    equipment (PPE)
  • HIPAA
  • Bloodborne pathogens
  • Basic medical terminology
  • Customer service training
  • Annual competency assessment/review
  • Patient transport training