Health & Emergency Services

Cardiac Sonography

Are you a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer or Registered Vascular Technologist working in Sonography and ready to take the next step? CVTC’s affordable new one-year Cardiac Sonography Certificate will grow your skills in adult echocardiography and help you obtain your Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) credential.

Choose from fall or spring semester starts, and keep working while earning your certificate with flexible online courses and clinical rotations. Increase your earning potential and further your echocardiography knowledge and scanning skills with this certificate!

Critical Care Transport

The Critical Care Transport 3-credit certificate is designed to prepare licensed healthcare professionals to function as critical care transport team members. Critically ill or injured patients requiring transport between facilities need a different level of care from hospital or emergency field patients. This certificate provides students with knowledge of the special assessment techniques and needs of the critical care patient, the ability to operate and troubleshoot critical care transport equipment, and develops the skills necessary to maintain the stability of the critical care patient during transport.

Emergency Dispatch

The 6-credit Emergency Dispatch certificate provides you with the essential tools, technology, and protocols involved in emergency dispatching. You will learn through both classroom and hands-on exercises to equip you with the skills necessary for this field. Upon completion of the certificate, you will be eligible to take the national emergency dispatching exam and be certified by the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch.
 

Healthcare Data Analytics

Learners explore healthcare delivery systems and regulatory environment, compliance, healthcare data collection principles, data structure and standardization and interoperability. Further focus involves use of technology in healthcare, including common business software applications, patient portals, healthcare databases, administrative and clinical information systems, and a variety of electronic health record (EHR) simulation.

The courses provide in-depth study of specific tools and hands-on activities including Dia, relational-database, SQL, MySQL, data normalization, information system design, Entity-Relationship Diagrams, and relational data modeling and testing.

Phlebotomist/Specimen Processor

Start your career in healthcare with CVTC’s new fast, affordable Phlebotomist/Specimen Processor certificate. In this crucial profession, you will collect and prepare critical medical samples and communicate information to patients and providers.

Get hands-on experience with laboratory equipment, learn medical terminology, and study safety procedures. In only one semester, you will gain experience receiving, examining, and analyzing specimens in a laboratory, capturing data, and coordinating the distribution of results for both client and healthcare requests.

If you are organized, can multi-task, and hold yourself to a high level of accuracy, this rewarding career has many job openings in our area, and you will be in high demand.

Note: To gain employment, a high school diploma or GED and a criminal background check will be required by the employer.