CHEST Trainer Certification for Frontline Environmental Services (T-CHEST)
Certified Health Care Environmental Services Technician
Train-the-Trainer Program (T-CHEST)
Expert instruction on how to ensure patient areas are clean, safe and comfortable, including isolation and specialty areas, occupied patient rooms, and more:
- Best practices and guidelines for cleaning and disinfection of environment of care
- Learn teaching techniques to provide standardized training for EVS technicians
- Practice facilitation skills with live expert feedback and networking opportunities
The T-CHEST program is ideal for staff who manages technicians responsible for cleaning and disinfecting the environment of care.
- Health Care Environmental Services Leaders: Directors, Managers, Supervisors
- Trainers and Educators
- Contract Agencies and Consultants
- EVS Product and Service Providers
- Infection Prevention Professionals
Why should you have a T-CHEST on your team?
Facilitate the execution of evidence based, science-backed infection prevention practices at your facility.
Demonstrate the value of environmental services technicians in acute care environments by improving patient outcomes.
Increase job satisfaction and employee retention while boosting overall performance.
Program Details
The CHEST Train-the-Trainer program is offered numerous times throughout the year in both in-person and virtual formats. Participants will earn a T-CHEST designation that prepares them to facilitate training for their staff and earn their CHEST certification.
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This program includes:
- Facilitator Guide
- Participant Guide
- Toolkit
- Notebook
- Certificate of Recognition
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Fees include facilitator guide, participant guide, slide deck, toolkit and designation certificate.
- Member Facility-Based: $1,250
- Nonmember Facility-Based: $1,450
- Member Non-Facility-Based: $2,300
- Non-Member, Non-Facility-Based: $2,800
Become an AHE member to receive the discounted rate. Members save on AHE education, events, online courses and more!
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Continuing Education Credits (CECs): 24
Credit hours can be used toward the renewal of the CHESP, CHEST, CSCT and CNACC credentials.
Trainers who miss more than 2 hours of the Train-the-Trainer (T3) program will not be eligible to become designated as a trainer until the missed portion is made up at a later AHE offering. This makeup session will require a nominal fee for processing and administration purposes.
Check the calendar for additional offerings.
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More than 15 business days prior to the start of the Program: Please send your cancellation request to ahe@aha.org. Your refund will be subject to a $300 cancellation fee. 15 business days or fewer prior to the start of the Program: No refund or credit will be issued. No credits, substitutions, or transfers will be permitted under any circumstance.
Upcoming Schedule
Host a Private Program
Can't send your team off-site to get the training they need? Let AHE bring master trainers to your organization to lead a private AHE program for your team. If you have 15 or more participants, learn more by requesting to host a private training at your facility.
Host a Public Program
Don’t have 15 or more to host a private program? Become a public program host. Let AHE bring master trainers to your facility to lead a public AHE program open to all, saving on your team’s travel expenses. Learn more by requesting to host a public training.
Earn a Digital Badge
Gain recognition with a verifiable credential that validates your skills, achievement and knowledge. After completing the T3 training, access the T-CHEST digital badge to share and display on various platforms, like LinkedIn or your digital resume. Badge access is usually emailed to attendees within 2 weeks of completing the T3 program.
