Chronic Care Professional Certification
Nationally Recognized Chronic Care Professional Certification Test-Out Opportunities for NIWH Learners
Additional Nationally Recognized, Health Care Industry Certifications and Registered Health Coach Training available at Special 65% Tuition Reductions for NIWH Learners
In addition to providing to our learners the highest quality of accredited, evidence-based Whole Health Training programs, the professional prerequisites and high educational standards of NIWH also afford its graduates additional opportunities to become further professionally certified with healthcare and medical industry standard credentials.
An NIWH graduate can add to their Whole Health Education credentials and Whole Health Advocacy training the following professional credentials:
1 – NIWH graduates may “test-out” for the HealthSciences Institute’s (HSI) Chronic Care Professional certification*. HealthSciences Institute is a collaborative education partner of the National Institute of Whole Health. HealthSciences Institutes’ Chronic Care Professional program (CCP) is the only nationally accredited program for self-management support.
The qualification criteria and vision for the Chronic Care Professional (CCP) is based on the World Health Organization, the Institutes of Medicine and leading Consumer Advocacy Groups, which emphasize that chronic care improvement and patient-centered care require a shared vision and active engagement of professionals from many disciplines. Testing-out for this valuable credential saves the NIWH professional a great deal of time and tuition costs, as well as delivers the most valuable credential in disease prevention and chronic care management today.
2 – NIWH graduates can register, with a special HSI-NIWH tuition discount, for HealthSciences Institute’s Registered Health Coach®*. HealthSciences Institute’s Registered Health Coach® (RHC) program is the first health coaching credential grounded in the science of health behavior change and learning. Successful completion of the Registered Health Coach credential provides the professional a listing on the national Registered Health Coach registry, used by health facilities and insurance companies for recruitment.
The RHC was developed in partnership with experts in the health field, including the National Institute of Health funded behavioral medicine and health coaching specialists, and is utilized with some of the largest public and private health care organizations in the United States and Canada.
HealthSciences Institute’s award-winning programs have been recognized by the following professional health organizations:
- Care Continuum Alliance
- Case Management Society of America
- National Association of Disease Management and Wellness Professionals
*Registered Health Coach ® is a Registered Trademark of the Health Science Institute. NIWH graduates qualify to test out for the Chronic Care Practitioner certification and may elect to move on to the Registered Health Coach program, which if successfully completed, leads to registration on the PartnersinImprovement® national online Health Coach Registry®. A special HSI-NIWH discount applies. For more information visit http://www.healthsciences.org/registered-health-coach.