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: June 18, 2025

Location: Roanoke Fire & EMS Training Center, (Classroom: Vigilant), 802 River Ave. SE, Roanoke, VA 24013

Cost: This course is being offered to all regional healthcare coalition/emergency response stakeholders. This is a grant-funded course, so there is no cost to the participant to attend. If you are not a member of the regional coalition, please reach out to Mary Kathryn Alley at mkalley@vaems.org, to discuss your interest in attending.

Prerequisites: None

Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3737

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Course Date: June 26, 2025

Location: Blacksburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, 1300 Progress Street NW, Blacksburg, VA 24060

Cost: This course is being offered to all regional healthcare coalition/emergency response stakeholders. This is a grant-funded course, so there is no cost to the participant to attend. If you are not a member of the regional coalition, please reach out to Mary Kathryn Alley at mkalley@vaems.org, to discuss your interest in attending.

Prerequisites: None

Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3738

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Course Date: April 24, 2025

Location: Sentara-Williamsburg, 100 Sentara Circle, Williamsburg, VA 23188 (Graves Conference Room, 1st Floor)

Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Eastern Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact EVHC's Training & Exercise Coordinator, Abigail Cohen, at: acohen@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=3665

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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 22 - 23, 2025

Location: Sentara-Williamsburg, 100 Sentara Circle, Williamsburg, VA 23188 (Graves Conference Room, 1st Floor)

Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Eastern Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact EVHC's Training & Exercise Coordinator, Abigail Cohen, at: acohen@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=3664

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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.