Launch your career in healthcare.
Become a CNA.

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Advance your career in healthcare.
Become a medication aide.

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Receive quality assisted living training.
Take our CBRF classes.

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Help save lives.
Sign up for a First Aid & CPR class.

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Gain empathy and awareness.
Experience the Virtual Dementia Tour.

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Increasing and advancing the healthcare workforce in Northwest Wisconsin through quality, accessible certifications and trainings.

Why choose the Institute?

  • Price. Shop around. You will find our class rates are competitive, plus we can help connect you with tuition assistance and reimbursement options.
  • Finish faster. We schedule classes with utmost efficiency so you can start working and achieving your goals as quickly as possible.
  • Choose where you want to work. The Institute is focused on providing you with quality education. Where you work is up to you.
  • Multiple locations. Nurse educators instruct classes year-round in multiple communities, including Bloomer, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Osseo, and Rice Lake. We may be able to offer classes in other communities as well — Amery, Augusta, Barron, Black River Falls, Bloomer, Chetek, Cumberland, Durand, Hayward, Ladysmith, Menomonie, Mondovi, Neillsville, Turtle Lake, Spooner, Superior, and Whitehall to name a few. Hybrid learning is coming soon: Receive updates.
  • Experienced educators. Most of our instructors are registered nurses and have spent years providing direct patient care. Our instructors are passionate about ensuring healthcare consumers receive quality care by compassionate professionals.
  • Evolving class options. We are committed to growing our list of class offerings in order to help advance the healthcare workforce. We want to hear from you. Send us your class ideas.

Be a part of the solution for the healthcare workforce.

The Healthcare Workforce Training Institute is a priority project of the Dove Healthcare Community Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. In order for the Institute to advance its mission, it is imperative to hire more instructors and expand class offerings. Furthermore, class fees are sometimes a deterrent for those wishing to take a class. Your financial donation will make a lasting impact in the lives of so many - our students and those in need of their care.

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Tuesday, March 21

Congrats to Monica, Megan, and Eliza on completing the nurse aide training program in Rice Lake! They are pictured here with our expert nurse educators, Lynne and Tiffany. Thank you, ladies, for all you do!
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Upcoming Classes

Mar 24

CBRF : First Aid and Choking

12:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Friday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Sharon Bergstad
Instructor

Sharon Bergstad, RN
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Mar 24

CBRF : Standard Precautions

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Friday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Sharon Bergstad
Instructor

Sharon Bergstad, RN
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Mar 27 - Apr 07

CNA

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM, includes lunch break
Monday - Friday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Bobby Scanlon
Instructor

Bobby Scanlon, RN
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Mar 27 - Apr 21

Medication Aide

Online live sessions 11AM-2PM on March 27, 28, 30, and April 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18. In-person sessions 8AM-4PM on April 6, 7, 20, and 21. 40 hours of training at the skilled nursing facility where you work.

Location

2829 County Highway I
Chippewa Falls

Michele Anderson
Instructor

Michele Anderson, RN
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Mar 28

First Aid & CPR : Community and Non-Licensed Healthcare Professionals (First Time or Renewal)

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Sharon Bergstad
Instructor

Sharon Bergstad, RN
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Apr 07

CBRF : Fire Safety

12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Friday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Sharon Bergstad
Instructor

Sharon Bergstad, RN
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Apr 11

First Aid & CPR : Basic Life Support for Licensed Healthcare Professionals (First Time or Renewal)

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Tuesday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Sharon Bergstad
Instructor

Sharon Bergstad, RN
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Apr 13-14

CBRF : Medication Administration

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, includes lunch break
Thursday and Friday

Location

1405 Truax Blvd, 3rd Floor
Eau Claire

Sharon Bergstad
Instructor

Sharon Bergstad, RN
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"The medication aide class is a great retention and promotion strategy with our CNAs. It is exactly the next level on the professional career ladder we want to afford to our talented healthcare professionals."

Kevin H. Larson, BSHCA, CNHA, FACHCA
Administrator/CEO

Spring Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center View careers at Spring Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center

"We appreciate the Institute's ability to offer these accessible classes in order to help increase and advance the healthcare workforce in Wisconsin."

Christian Blaisdell
Chief Executive Officer

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"These classes play an integral role for us in the recruitment and retention of employees and support us in offering a career ladder with enhanced earning and learning opportunities."

Jeremy Kiley, NHA
Regional Director of Operations

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