Pasco Home Care Aides can bridge to NA-C in a single Monday-to-Friday week in Federal Way: 40 clock hours, $800 tuition, skills test on site, reachable by Greyhound from Pasco station. Weekend cohorts exist but mean three trips.
Pasco CNAs work at Lourdes Medical Center, in Franklin County skilled nursing such as Avalon Pasco, and across the rivers at Kadlec and Trios. Tri-Cities posting averages run about $19.74 to $22.32/hr, approximate.
Pasco hosts Columbia Basin College's main campus, but its nursing assistant program runs from the Richland Health Science Center by quarter. The 4-week, $1,100 Federal Way course is a 232-mile Greyhound ride from Pasco station.