Guess what, recent nursing assistant graduates? If Christian Health Care Center is your first job after graduating from a certified nursing assistant training program, CHCC will pay your CNA/NAC certificate fees — reimbursing the cost of your tuition, books and state exams!
How does it work?
- First, you must graduate from a state-approved training course for nursing assistants, such as those offered in Bellingham by Whatcom Community College and Bellingham Technical College.
- Second, begin work at Christian Health Care Center as your first job after graduating from the nursing assistant program. Your start date at CHCC must be within a year of graduation.
- Third, submit receipts for tuition, books (or other required items) and certification exams.
- Fourth, Christian Health Care Center will reimburse you that amount! Over the next year, you will receive one-fourth of the total amount every three months. Work at our Lynden skilled nursing facility for a year, and you’ll get back the money you spent on tuition, books and exams.
If you are a home care aide, CHCC also will reimburse you for the cost of a “bridge program” that helps individuals acquire – through 24 total hours of specialized training – the knowledge and skills they need to take the state competency test to become certified nursing assistants.
Why are we doing this?
Christian Health Care Center is part of the federal Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program, under which nursing homes like ours reimburse nursing assistants for the costs of testing and training. The federal program then reimburses CHCC for the money we give to nursing assistants. For more information on the reimbursement program in Washington, visit the state Department of Health website.
Nursing assistants provide top-quality, compassionate care to our patients and residents. We’d love for more nursing assistants to get reimbursed for the money they’ve spent on their education when they come to work at CHCC.
For more information on the CNA/NAC tuition reimbursement program, contact us at 360-354-4434. Or, if you’re interested in taking a free nursing assistant certification class from Lynden Healthcare Education next door to CHCC, you can find more information on the LHE website.