Health Care Risk Management Certificate Program
ASHRM’s Health Care Risk Management Certificate Program is the leading professional development program providing the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed as a health care risk professional.
Leading health care organizations systematically focus on quality health care risk management see enhanced patient safety, improved quality of care, financial stability and positive reputations.
How can you ensure your health care risk professionals have all the tools they need to achieve these goals?
The HRM Certificate Program is a 2-part, in-person foundational course covering the knowledge, best practices, and applied skills necessary to succeed as a health care risk professional. This program can benefit all risk professionals, but it was designed with individuals with 0-3 years’ experience in health care risk management in mind. The curriculum provides foundational knowledge and best practices by focusing on learner centered in-person training with an emphasis on interactivity and application.
HRM Certificate Program
HRM Essentials (Part 1)
2.5 days in-person
17 ASHRM CEs and ANCC Nursing CNEs
Focusing on what new risks professionals need to know
Foundational knowledge and practical skills necessary to support a successful health care risk management program.
HRM Advanced Applications (Part 2)
2.5 days in-person + 4 hours of on-demand review
21 ASHRM CEs and ANCC Nursing CNEs
Focusing on what new risks professionals need to do
Expand upon foundational knowledge to practice and apply best practices with real-world scenarios and more complex subject matters
Benefits of the HRM Certification
- Develop a firm understanding of the risk management process and how to implement it in your organization
- Defining high-risk settings, risk identification, risk analysis and control in your organization
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCAs)
- Lead risk investigations and provide reports to the claims department
- Collaborate with other departments using basic risk financing, claims management, and litigation frameworks
- Provide resources and policies to improve overall organizational risk management
- Implement corrective action plans, stop-gap measures, and evaluate plans
Who should take ASHRM’s HRM Certificate Program?
We recommend those who are new or transitioning into health care risk management to complete this certificate program. This Certificate Program is beneficial for all risk professionals, but we have designed this course for those with 0-3 years of experience with risk management in a health care setting. This course is meant to provide the foundational knowledge that every health care risk professional should know.
Participants will leave the program with a strong understanding of the knowledge and skills required for their role such as:
- Risk management process
- Health care regulation knowledge
- Risk identification
- Risk control & foundational risk financing knowledge
- Data analysis
- Incident investigation
- Communication with stakeholders
- Risk mitigation
Have You Completed All 3 Modules?
Complete the Certificate of Completion Application
Upon completion of all three modules in the Health Care Risk Management Certificate Program, ASHRM is pleased to award a certificate of completion for the entire program. Candidates must complete and return the certificate of completion application (Microsoft Word document), along with copies of each module’s certificate, to ASHRM to be eligible for the certificate of completion. Once received, ASHRM will process and send back the certificate of completion to the successful participant.
Important Course Information
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Audience
Risk and quality managers, insurance and claims professionals, safety officers, administrators, financial officers, clinicians, attorneys, consultants and other health care professionals from all levels of experience.Faculty
The HRM Certificate Program faculty are seasoned leaders from a variety of settings. They are health care risk management professionals who practice in risk financing, claims administration, insurance, patient safety, ethics, compliance and other domains covered in the courses.Format
Methods of instruction for the modules include lecture, discussion, classroom exercises and case studies.Sequence
ASHRM recommends that you take the modules in sequence, as information expands from one module to the next. Essentials is an ideal educational base for new risk managers, and an excellent up-to-date refresher for more experienced professionals. As the next step, Applications shows how the principles described in Essentials actually work in the real world. The Advanced Forum consists of expertly guided, small-group analysis of complex challenges, and is most beneficial when all participants are able to share their proven solutions. -
ASHRM Credit
This program is approved for 13 contact hours of continuing education credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow), and toward CPHRM renewal – for those who hold the designation at the time of the program.
Continuing Nursing Education (CNE)
American Society for Health Care Risk Management is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
This program has been approved for 13 contact hours.
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You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon completion of the following:
- Full attendance
- Completion of evaluation taken within two weeks of the course
Email ashrmed@aha.org for questions.
2026 COURSE DATES:
Available in Q4!