CPHQ - Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality - Preparatory Program (Online)
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The Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) is the only accredited certification in healthcare quality. It validates your knowledge of healthcare quality practices and competencies. Read More
Becoming CPHQ certified demonstrates to employers and colleagues that you know how to manage and advance healthcare quality and safety.
It allows you to works at higher levels of competency and hold higher job titles including: director, executive director, vice president
The CPHQ certification incorporates the body of knowledge in the healthcare quality profession. It covers the following seven domains.
- More job postings for healthcare quality and related leadership roles that require or strongly prefer CPHQ
- Work at higher levels of competency compared to non-CPHQs in all eight domains of NAHQ’s Healthcare Quality Competency Framework
- Aspire to be thought leaders within the healthcare quality arena
- Are more likely to hold higher job titles than those who do not have CPHQ. Job titles include: director, executive director, vice president
- Quality Leadership & Integration
Includes strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and teamwork.
- Quality Review & Accountability
Includes clinical practice guidelines, documentation, patient experience, and applying best practices from quality-related organizations.
- Regulatory & Accreditation
Includes evaluating, monitoring, and improving compliance with organizational requirements and evaluating accreditation, certification, and recognition options.
- Patient Safety
Includes assessment and planning; implementation and evaluation.
- Performance & Process Improvement
Includes identification of improvement opportunities, implementation, and evaluation.
- Health Data Analytics
Includes design and data management; measurement and analysis.
- Population Health & Care Transitions
Includes health management strategies, analyzing, and identifying opportunities for improvement in care transitions.
- NAHQ Education material (741$)
- HQ Solutions 5th Edition for Healthcare Quality
- Official CPHQ Exam Practice Questions and Answers
- Access to NAHQ Online CPHQ Review Course Classes
Discount on CPHQ Exam
40% Discount on Exam Retake fee
Quality education supports CPHQ exam success.
12 CPD Hours
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Quality managers and quality-assurance professionals in healthcare
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Patient safety officers and risk managers
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Healthcare administrators and executives
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Clinical staff involved in quality-improvement initiatives (nurses, physicians)
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Accreditation and compliance coordinators
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Data analysts, health-information professionals, and performance-improvement specialists
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Anyone preparing to take the CPHQ certification exam or aiming to take a leadership role in healthcare quality
The CPHQ exam is offered internationally four times during the year 2026:
International exam windows and application dates 2026:
Exam Window: February 3 – 24, 2026
Application Period: November 1, 2025 – January 31, 2026
Exam Window: May 4 – 25, 2026
Application Period: February 1 – April 30, 2026
Exam Window: August 3 – 24, 2026
Application Period: May 1 – July 31, 2026
Exam Window: November 2 – 23, 2026
Application Period: August 1 – October 31, 2026

