Healthcare Facilities Leadership
The Healthcare Facilities Leadership program prepares students for a highly innovative and rapidly changing professional career as a Healthcare Facilities Leader/Manager. Students receive an education in office and hospital procedures, client relations and communications, leadership, finances, energy management, public speaking, construction, infection control, maintenance operations, and codes and compliance. This knowledge can be used to gain employment locally, regionally, or nationally. Overall, the students in this program receive an education that provides marketable skills, preparing them to be employed in a high-demand profession.
Those completing the Facilities Healthcare Technician certificate will gain an understanding of the highly specialized building and physical environment of healthcare along with how the healthcare building is directly involved in patient or resident health outcomes. The Healthcare Facilities Technician certificate will also prepare students to sit for the Certified Healthcare Facilities Technician (CHFT) certification.
Those earning the FHT certificate will have an advantage in finding employment in a wide variety of healthcare facilities such as acute care hospitals, behavioral health, residential healthcare, rehabilitation, and various outpatient facilities. The FHT will also give an advantage to those seeking employment with healthcare building and construction vendors.
The FHT certificate can also provide a pathway to the Healthcare Facilities Leadership (HFL) program as FHT certificate holders seek positions in healthcare facilities supervision and management.