{"id":110938,"date":"2022-01-28T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110938"},"modified":"2022-01-28T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:10:34","slug":"special-8-hour-training-program-for-cnas-offered-at-gracedale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110938","title":{"rendered":"Special 8-hour training program for CNAs offered at Gracedale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Gracedale has reinstated the Temporary Certified Nursing Aide (CNA) program. Participants may take an eight-hour course, earn a temporary CNA certificate and begin paid employment at Gracedale.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) offers an eight-hour online course for temporary certification for CNAs or Certified Nursing Aides. A standard CNA class takes four weeks, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began allowing the on-line version in 2020 to help with staffing during the pandemic.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen these temporary CNAs convert to part-time and full-time positions at Gracedale,\u201d says Jennifer Stewart-King. \u201cIf anyone would like to join our team we urge them to consider this opportunity.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>For more information about certification programs, please contact Amy Kahler at 610-829-3402 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:akahler@northamptoncounty.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">akahler@northamptoncounty.org<\/a>\u00a0<wbr \/>or apply online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/HR\/Pages\/Recruitment.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.<wbr \/>org\/HR\/Pages\/Recruitment.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gracedale has reinstated the Temporary Certified Nursing Aide (CNA) program. Participants may take an eight-hour course, earn a temporary CNA certificate and begin paid employment at Gracedale. &nbsp; The Pennsylvania &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special 8-hour training program for CNAs offered at Gracedale<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gracedale-Nursing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}