Healthcare Environmental Hygiene Professional Certification (HEHP)

Transform your EVS team into a strategic infection prevention asset and integrate them into your core interprofessional team.

Why Healthcare Environmental Hygiene Professional Certification (HEHP)?

This comprehensive EVS training program provides a formal framework to create consistency across training and skills implementation. The curriculum addresses gaps in existing education and training with the goal of integrating EVS into the clinical care team.

Presented entirely in person at your facility, the program provides hands-on, scientific-based environmental hygiene training that integrates infection prevention principles and the science behind the work at every level.

Who Is This Training For?

This program is designed to build a consistent framework of environmental hygiene standards for in-house healthcare environmental services teams and any healthcare professionals who hold accountability for cleaning, disinfection, and patient care.

Program Levels At A Glance

The three-tier training model translates infection prevention priorities and clinical expectations into practical, repeatable EVS workflows. Competencies are verified through in-person instruction, hands-on practicums, implementation support, and semiannual observational visits.

 

Level Primary Focus Environments Infection Prevention Emphasis
Basic Non-specialty patient rooms, common areas, basic exam spaces.
  • Core cleaning and disinfection protocols
  • Cross-contamination prevention
  • PPE
  • Hand hygiene
  • Exposure and regulatory basics
  • Biofilm and resistance
  • Enhanced isolation protocols
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Targeted workflows for higher-risk patients
  • Spaulding Classification
  • EPA label interpretation
  • Room turnover for high-risk procedures
  • Integration with perioperative and critical care teams
Intermediate ICUs, isolation rooms, transplant units, special pathogen scenarios.
Advanced Emergency departments, operating rooms, sterile processing and other critical care areas.

Expert-Developed Curriculum

Developed collaboratively by EVS leaders, infection preventionists, nursing professionals, value analysis professionals, and healthcare industry thought leaders, the program is grounded in voice-of-customer input, current science, and evidence-based cleaning and disinfection standards.

Ready to Elevate Your EVS Team?

Start the process by completing your informational intake form below.

Pricing

We offer a variety of program packages for EVS and healthcare professional teams. Following your initial information submission, we will reach out to provide pricing and next steps.

Questions?

Contact our support team to discuss your facility’s needs or learn more about our flexible training options.