Southwest Virginia Healthcare Coalition
Comprehensive Training Center
1944 Peters Creek Rd. NW
Roanoke, VA 24017

Contact: Monica McCullough
Phone: 540-562-3482
Email:
 mmccullough@vaems.org

Course Date: April 10, 2025

Location: Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, (Executive Auditorium), One Partnership Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210

Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Southwest Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact Course Coordinator Monica McCullough at: mmccullough@vaems.org

Prerequisites: Completion of Basic CHEC is required. Recommended prerequisites: FEMA IS-120 (Intro to Exercises) and FEMA IS-235 (Emergency Planning)

Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3579

coursesearchCHECAdvanced

The CHEC Certification Program is a tiered certification process incorporating advancing course work as pre-requisites to three levels of certification using the CHEC Basic and Advanced courses as the foundation.   

  •      CHEC courses are customarily offered over 3 consecutive days.
  •      Single course enrollment is permitted.
  •      CHEC Basic is a pre-requisite to CHEC Advanced.
  •      CEUs are honored and accepted by The State Office of EMS and EMA to maintain certification.
  •      Students receive a handbook and electronic resource materials.

Course Date: April 8 - 9, 2025

Location: Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, (Executive Auditorium), One Partnership Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210

Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Southwest Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact Course Coordinator Monica McCullough at: mmccullough@vaems.org

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course, however, it is recommended that you take IS-100, which is a FEMA Independent Study course to learn about the Incident Command System: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100.c

Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3578

coursesearchCHECBasic

The CHEC Certification Program is a tiered certification process incorporating advancing course work as pre-requisites to three levels of certification using the CHEC Basic and Advanced courses as the foundation. 

CHEC Basic: 2-day course; 13.5 CEU’s       

  •      CHEC courses are customarily offered over 3 consecutive days.
  •      Single course enrollment is permitted.
  •      CHEC Basic is a pre-requisite to CHEC Advanced.
  •      CEUs are honored and accepted by The State Office of EMS and EMA to maintain certification.
  •      Students receive a handbook and electronic resource materials.

Course Date: January 28 - 29, 2025

Location: Holiday Inn- Tanglewood, 4468 Starkey Road, Roanoke, VA 24018

Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Southwest Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact Course Coordinator Monica McCullough at: mmccullough@vaems.org

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course, however, it is recommended that you take IS-100, which is a FEMA Independent Study course to learn about the Incident Command System: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100.c

Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3577

coursesearchCHECBasic

The CHEC Certification Program is a tiered certification process incorporating advancing course work as pre-requisites to three levels of certification using the CHEC Basic and Advanced courses as the foundation. 

CHEC Basic: 2-day course; 13.5 CEU’s       

  •      CHEC courses are customarily offered over 3 consecutive days.
  •      Single course enrollment is permitted.
  •      CHEC Basic is a pre-requisite to CHEC Advanced.
  •      CEUs are honored and accepted by The State Office of EMS and EMA to maintain certification.
  •      Students receive a handbook and electronic resource materials.

Course Date: January 30, 2025

Location: Holiday Inn- Tanglewood, 4468 Starkey Road, Roanoke, VA 24018

Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Southwest Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact Course Coordinator Monica McCullough at: mmccullough@vaems.org

Prerequisites: Completion of Basic CHEC is required. Recommended: FEMA IS-120 (Intro to Exercises) and FEMA IS-235 (Emergency Planning)

Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3576

coursesearchCHECAdvanced

The CHEC Certification Program is a tiered certification process incorporating advancing course work as pre-requisites to three levels of certification using the CHEC Basic and Advanced courses as the foundation.   

  •      CHEC courses are customarily offered over 3 consecutive days.
  •      Single course enrollment is permitted.
  •      CHEC Basic is a pre-requisite to CHEC Advanced.
  •      CEUs are honored and accepted by The State Office of EMS and EMA to maintain certification.
  •      Students receive a handbook and electronic resource materials.