What you get:

  • Mobile-friendly access for anytime, anywhere learning
  • Earn virtual skills badges to showcase the skills you learn
  • Penn Foster faculty, staff, and coaches available for support
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Penn Foster has partnered with the San Diego Workforce Partnership to offer career focused courses to San Diego County residents at no cost. We're proud to offer a Contact Tracer Pathway course, a Hospital Greeter course, and a Patient Transporter course. All of our programs were designed specifically to help you acquire the skills necessary to lead a successful career in healthcare.

Offered on Penn Foster's mobile-friendly platform, these programs provide you with the flexibility to learn when and where you want - at a pace that's right for you. Taking these courses will allow you to increase your skills, demonstrate your focus and discipline, and show a dedication to self-improvement.

Browse the programs below and enroll in a program today!

Healthcare Careers

Featured Programs

Healthcare Administration

Contact Tracer Pathway Program

Contact tracers play a critical role in infectious disease control measures that local and state health departments and other health organizations use to support patients with suspected or confirmed infections. You'll study medical terms, principles of exposure, infectious interactions, symptoms of disease, and pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic infections. The skills you learn in the course will help you interact with exposed individuals and their potential exposures or contacts.

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Skills Covered:

  • Patient communication and customer service skills
  • Patient confidentiality and HIPAA
  • Understanding infection, infectious disease transmission
  • Computer and administrative skills

Average Completion Time:

<1 Month

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Hospital Greeter

The Hospital Greeter Program will train you to be a representative of the hospital by welcoming and assisting patients, their families, and other visitors, establishing and maintaining a positive and warm environment. After completing the program you will be prepared to confidently respond to visitor requests, provide information and referral resources, perform check-in and check-out procedures, and collect patient demographic information.

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Skills Covered:

  • Patient communication and customer service skills
  • Patient confidentiality and HIPAA
  • Computer and administrative skills

Average Completion Time:

<1 Month

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Patient Transporter

The Patient Transporter program will train you to provide safe, dependable, and courteous patient transportation services for all admissions, discharges, and transfers, throughout the hospital or long-term care facility. In this program you will learn how to maintain and be responsible for all departmental equipment, including wheelchairs, stretchers, and TransCarts, and be able to transport equipment and all documents relating to patient care and transport.

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Skills Covered:

  • Communication and customer service
  • Patient confidentiality and HIPAA
  • Use of adaptive equipment to support Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
  • OSHA and safe patient handling

Average Completion Time:

<1 Month

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