What does CCHI mean by vendor-neutral?
CCHI’s mission is to develop and administer a national, valid, credible, vendor-neutral certification program for healthcare interpreters. You have likely noticed that we use this sentence in everything we publish. That is because healthcare interpreting is our core and our strength and we are driven by the desire to serve the current and future needs of healthcare interpreters. We believe these four adjectives define our approach, guide our process, and are the critical elements that differentiate CCHI interpreters and the stakeholders who are counting on us to provide a trained, qualified, and certified population of healthcare interpreters. CCHI’s certification for healthcare interpreters is not branded to or licensed from any vendor of language services. We are developing our certification from the ground up and not relying on any commercially-oriented certification, training, testing or assessment developed by other organizations. CCHI’s certification program is being developed by
