Welcome to The Center of Excellence in Education (CEE), an organization devoted to meeting the education needs of healthcare professionals and community members.

CEE supports career-long learning for healthcare providers and community that ultimately results in improved cardiac care. CEE enjoys teaching the community CPR, First Aid, and other safety courses. CEE recognizes that the community bystander is a vital link in the Chain of Survival!

With a wide variety of instructors, classes, affordable prices, and flexible schedules, we will tailor courses to your specific healthcare education needs. The Center of Excellence in Education offers classroom training at the Center (located CEE Chico, CA and Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, CA), or CEE will travel to your healthcare or community location. Courses are contracted for the convenience of your office, your staff and your preferred destination. Let CEE provide customized, on-site education as a cost effective way to improve patient outcomes in your community.

The CEE is an accredited provider of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ through the California Medical Association/Institute of Medical Quality (CMA/IMQ). Additionally, we offer California Board of Registered Nursing and pre-hospital EMT-P continuing education.

As an American Heart Association Training Center for over eleven years, CEE provides ACLS, ACLS-EP, ACLS for the Terrified, PALS, BLS, NRP, First Aid and various levels of CPR. Let us bring these AHA courses to you. CEE offers initial AHA courses to healthcare providers and community new students or those whose cards have expired. Renewal AHA courses are for students who have current AHA cards. To find an AHA class, click here for the AHA.pdf or look at the course calendar to the left and search by month and course name. For questions please call 530.276.9164.

Is your critical care team looking for a low stress, fun, live, on-site educational format with a nationally recognized instructor? Let our team assess your staffs education needs. Below are examples of a few of our on-site courses or click here for Educational Opportunities.pdf description.

Cardiac Essentials Workshop


Cardiovascular Essentials workshop visits many complications and treatments using practical applications. Students will explore the life saving and exciting current science and best practice information available to healthcare practitioners focusing on cardiac care. Along the way you will unravel the Mystery of the 12 Lead EKG; Cardiac Pharmacology; Women and Heart Disease; Acute Ischemic Stroke Update; additionally including ACS AHA Guidelines. This course doesn’t forget about the new RN or less experienced in the cardiac field and brings to you, Arrhythmias for the Terrified (of course everyone can benefit going back to the basics).

Critical Care Courses (or any individual component of the Critical Care Course)

Basic to Advanced Dysrhythmia/Arrhythmia Courses

ECG 12-Lead, 18-Lead Courses

A Cardiac Expert Lecturer for your group on any healthcare topic

These courses are taught personally by Barbara Furry, RNC, MS, CCRN, FACCN who is nationally recognized for quality, creative healthcare education. Based in Northern California, Barbara has the ability to create an education buzz in her courses that leave students begging for more!

Director of the Center of Excellence In Education and currently serving the American Heart Association National Education Subcommittee her experience will bring current principles relevant to cardiac care using a low stress style and comfortable classroom atmosphere. Barbara also believes that making the healthcare staff laugh can only benefit our patients and chocolate is a food group!

Previous feedback from courses have comments such as “after attending your classes, I have turned into the nursing patient advocate that you inspire audiences to become”.

PO Box 308, Chico, CA 95927 

Phone/Fax 530/891-8916
E-mail furryfarm@msn.com