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AHE - Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST)
The Certified Health Care Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) offers a new certification for environmental services frontline workers. It was established using a comprehensive nationwide job analysis of a health care environmental services technician’s responsibilities and defined focus groups. The program covers all aspects of a frontline worker’s typical tasks and accountabilities.
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- Social Distant Learning: Stay safe and continue to social distance during the pandemic while receiving top-notch, timely and evidence-based environmental services training
- Improved Outcomes: Start experiencing the exciting patient and health care outcomes hospitals across the country are seeing after implementing the CHEST program
- lower infection rates
- lower turnover rates
- improved HCAHPS scores
- Cost Savings: CHEST Virtual can offer cost and time savings. Attendance at an in-person event often requires travel, hotel accommodations and food expenses. Including registration fees, that can add up to several hundred dollars. Add in the cost of time spent away from the workplace and virtual workshop can be a cost-effective alternative.
- Access: CHEST Virtual will be accessible from anywhere as long as participants have access to an internet connection through a smartphone, tablet or computer.
- Networking: Easily network with other EVS professionals. Participants will receive a full list of all workshop attendees. In addition, in the virtual classroom attendees will engage with each other in virtual rooms, making it easy to begin one-on-one chats. Virtual rooms can also facilitate discussion, creating connections between attendees interested in similar topics.
- 90% of those who hold a certification through the American Hospital Association say it’s a valued achievement in their career.
- 86% of healthcare human resource managers and directors take a closer look at employees with certifications.
- Employees who are more confident in achieving their work goals are 83% more likely to be engaged on the job, which correlates to greater job satisfaction.*
