Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professional (CHESP)
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Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professional (CHESP) status is accompanied by many benefits, including industry recognition, job mobility and employment opportunities. The premier credential designation demonstrates mastery of maintaining the environment of care, based on a sound assessment that provides distinction in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Designees are not only equipped with knowledge of the physical environment including design, construction, sanitation, waste and textile management. They are also provided with additional education in compliance, finance, and administration.
Upcoming Schedule
Event Begins: Sat, Jul 29, 2023
Why should you become a CHESP?
Show expertise across a wider variety of environmental services and infection prevention subject matter.
Further understanding of waste management and textile management operations.
Build on existing finance, administrative and regulatory compliance knowledge.
About Certification
Many benefits, including industry recognition, job mobility, and employment opportunities accompany Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professional status. The premier credential designation demonstrates mastery of maintaining the environment of care, based on a sound assessment, that provides distinction in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
CHESPs demonstrate advanced knowledge in the following areas:
- Regulatory compliance
- Design and construction
- Environmental sanitation operations
- Waste management operations
- Textile management operations
- Finance
- Administration
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Questions? Contact AHE@aha.org to learn more.
AHE Members Save on Registration
AHE members save on Signature Training Programs and much more! Members benefit from best-in-class tools, products, education, and training that raise the standard of the health care environmental services field and shape the future workforce of professionals across all care settings.
Who should attend study sessions?
This certification is ideal for staff who want to advance in their EVS career in the following areas.
- Environmental Services and Sanitation
- Facilities Management
- Waste Management
- Textile Management
- Provider of Environmental Services or Products to a Health Care Facility
Questions? Contact AHE@aha.org to learn more.
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