Certified Healthcare Project Management Professional

📘Program Overview

Healthcare organizations face unprecedented complexity that challenges their ability to maintain fiscally sound operations, patient safety, and regulatory compliance — driving demand for professionals with specialized project-management skills.

The Certified Healthcare Project Management Professional (CHPMP) program enables participants to learn and practice the tools and techniques needed for project-management roles in healthcare, identifying and executing appropriate planning, organizing, and controlling steps while ensuring quality.

The program also covers best practices including negotiation, communication, risk management, change management, and coordination between the project and management, clients, users, team members, and support groups.

🎯Program Rationale

• Healthcare projects are complex, high-stakes, and resource-intensive.
• Structured project management improves delivery, cost, and quality.
• Both traditional and agile approaches apply in healthcare.
• Skilled project managers are in escalating demand.

👥Target Audience

• Healthcare project managers and coordinators
• Department heads leading initiatives and change
• Quality, IT, and operations professionals
• Clinical leaders managing projects
• Anyone involved in healthcare or healthcare-related projects

✅Program Objectives

• Apply concepts and terminology commonly used in healthcare projects.
• Execute the phases of a project from initiation to closure.
• Compare outcomes across different healthcare projects.
• Defend project-management decisions for successful delivery.
• Integrate risk, change, and resource management.

🏆Learning Outcomes

• Define project goals, scope, and charter.
• Plan project work, estimate, and apply critical path / sprint planning.
• Identify, prioritize, and respond to risks.
• Manage project resources and agile team roles.
• Track progress, control change, and close projects effectively.

📚Program Structure

• Module 1: General Concepts
• General characteristics of projects
• Special challenges of healthcare projects
• Project life cycles: agile versus traditional
• Module 2: Defining Goals & Scope
• Project charter
• Scope baseline
• Product backlog
• Module 3: Planning Project Work
• Defining project work
• Estimating
• Critical path
• Sprint planning
• Module 4: Managing Risk
• Defining risk
• Identifying risks
• Prioritizing risks
• Responding to risks
• Module 5: Managing Project Resources
• Determining resource requirements
• Project teams
• Assigning work
• Agile team roles and responsibilities
• Module 6: Communication & Stakeholder Coordination
• Negotiation and communication
• Change management
• Coordinating with management, clients, users, and support groups
• Quality assurance in projects
• Module 7: Tracking, Change & Closure
• Tracking progress against a baseline
• Controlling scope changes (traditional and agile)
• Project closure
• Post-project reviews

📝Assessment & Certification

• Module knowledge checks
• Project-charter and planning exercises
• Group project case study
• Final comprehensive examination

🚀Capstone / Practical Project

Plan and present a healthcare project end to end — charter, schedule, risk register, resource plan, and closure review — through a team-based case study.

🏥Organizational Impact

• More reliable project delivery on time and budget
• Better risk and change management
• Improved cross-functional coordination
• Higher project quality and outcomes

📈Career Pathway

• Healthcare Project Manager
• PMO Coordinator
• Implementation / Change Lead
• Operations Project Specialist

Exam Fee: $495