Why Earn Your Health Care Facilitator Microcredential?
The Healthcare Facilitator Microcredential provides learners with immediate skills and knowledge to support healthcare facilities and providers in their telemedicine endeavors. The Health Care Facilitator is a knowledgeable person who will provide confidential one-on-one assistance in connecting patients with their healthcare providers.
Program Options
This microcredential provides students with the skills and knowledge to help healthcare facilities and providers in their telemedicine endeavors. The Health Care Facilitator is a knowledgeable person who will provide confidential one-on-one assistance in connecting patients with their healthcare providers.
The Healthcare Facilitator Microcredential is a high-quality credential intentionally designed for today’s learner to be short, focused, and customized to build experience in a rapidly growing area of the healthcare industry. Open to anyone, upon completion of the Healthcare Facilitator Microcredential, students are eligible to sit for the Medical Assistant Certification exam offered through the AMCA.
Tuition Assistance and Funding Options — New for 2024
Starting in 2024, non-matriculated students taking this microcredential may be eligible to have the New York State Tuition Assistance Program for Non-Degree Programs cover part of the cost of tuition if you are economically eligible as follows and meet other requirements:
- Dependent undergraduate students or Independent students who are married and have tax dependents, or Independent students who are unmarried and have tax dependents, or beginning with the 2014-15 academic year, students who qualify as an orphan, foster child or ward of the court: $80,000
- Independent undergraduate students who are married and have no other tax dependents: $40,000
- Single independent undergraduate students with no tax dependents: $10,000
If you believe you earn less than the amount listed in the criteria above, you may be able to apply for the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) to partially cover the cost of your tuition for this program.
If you later enroll in a degree program at SUNY, this course will transfer for credit.
Apply for the 2023-24 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) today and link directly from your FAFSA summary page to complete the 2023-24 NYS TAP application.
Also, please note that you have a lifetime of eight semesters of TAP. These will be pro-rated for the number of credits you earn, but this will use a portion of your lifetime TAP eligibility.
Please contact the Financial Aid department at 518-697-6360 or finaid@sunycgcc.eduto explore your financial options.