Healthcare providers and workplace responders in Lanham can earn American Heart Association BLS, ACLS, and PALS certification through a blended learning format that combines online coursework with a short hands-on skills session.
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Lanham
4500 Forbes Blvd #400, Lanham, MD 20706, United States
Conveniently located in Lanham, we offer AHA-certified CPR, First Aid, BLS, ACLS, and PALS courses.
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BLS
ACLS
PALS
Our Lanham training station is located at 4500 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 400, Lanham, MD 20706, in Prince George’s County. The location offers convenient access from the Capital Beltway (I-495/I-95) and U.S. Route 50 (John Hanson Highway), making it easy to reach from throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The building is situated within a professional office park along Forbes Boulevard.
Take the exit for U.S. Route 50 East toward Annapolis and continue to the MD-704 (Martin Luther King Jr. Highway) area. Follow local roads to Forbes Boulevard and continue to 4500 Forbes Boulevard. The building is located approximately one-half mile from the I-495 and Route 50 interchange.
Take the exit for MD-704 (Martin Luther King Jr. Highway) and follow signs toward Forbes Boulevard. Continue to 4500 Forbes Boulevard, located within a professional office complex just minutes from Route 50.
Travel toward Forbes Boulevard using local roads or MD-704. Continue to 4500 Forbes Boulevard, which is located within a business park offering convenient access from major regional highways.
Free parking is available in front of the building. Students may park in any open space when attending their CPR, BLS, ACLS, or PALS skills session.







































Basic Life Support
Flexible & self-paced;
Hands-on practice
Truster Certification
Basic Life Support certification is the entry-level credential for anyone working in a clinical, patient-facing, or emergency response role. The course covers high-quality CPR technique for adult, pediatric, and infant patients, correct AED operation, and relief of foreign body airway obstruction across different patient populations. BLS is required by hospitals, outpatient clinics, dental offices, and healthcare training programs throughout Prince George’s County and across Maryland. The certification earned through our program is issued directly by the American Heart Association and satisfies those requirements without exception.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification addresses the clinical competencies required for managing cardiac arrest and serious acute emergencies in hospital and pre-hospital settings. The curriculum covers advanced airway management techniques, resuscitation medication protocols, and the communication frameworks used by high-functioning resuscitation teams. Physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, paramedics, and other advanced practice providers working in emergency, critical care, and procedural settings throughout the Lanham area and broader Prince George’s County hold this certification as a condition of their employment and licensure.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
Flexible & self-paced;
Hands-on practice
Truster Certification
Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Flexible & self-paced;
Hands-on practice
Truster Certification
Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification equips providers with a structured approach to identifying and responding to life-threatening emergencies in children. The course walks through the early recognition of respiratory failure and shock in pediatric patients, intervention strategies at each stage of deterioration, and cardiac arrest management in infants and children. Providers working in pediatric emergency departments, neonatal intensive care units, pediatric floors, and urgent care centers in the Lanham area rely on PALS to meet both institutional credentialing requirements and Maryland licensing standards.
Lanham sits within Prince George’s County, a region with a growing and diverse healthcare infrastructure that includes Doctors Community Medical Center, urgent care networks, outpatient specialty practices, and community health centers serving a large patient population. Clinical professionals across this area, including nurses, physicians, EMTs, paramedics, medical assistants, dental hygienists, and respiratory therapists, depend on current AHA certification to remain compliant with employer policies and state licensing requirements. Our blended learning format gives these professionals a practical path to certification that does not require them to request time off or rearrange patient care responsibilities.
Students preparing to enter the healthcare workforce through nursing programs, medical schools, physician assistant programs, dental schools, and allied health training programs at institutions throughout the greater DC and Prince George’s County area frequently need AHA certification before they can begin clinical hours. Our courses allow students to complete the online portion during study periods and attend a skills session that wraps up in well under an hour. Certification is in hand before the first clinical day begins.
Maryland childcare licensing regulations require certification among staff at licensed facilities, and providers operating in Lanham and the surrounding area are subject to those same standards. Our BLS course meets the requirements set by Maryland’s Office of Child Care and gives childcare workers and family daycare providers a clear, time-efficient path to satisfying their certification obligations without disrupting their daily program operations.
Organizations in Lanham across sectors, including logistics, government contracting, retail, and professional services, benefit from having staff trained to respond during on-site medical emergencies. Workplace cardiac events and sudden medical crises do not only happen in hospitals. Having certified employees present can preserve life in the critical minutes before emergency medical services arrive. We work with businesses to schedule group sessions that accommodate team availability and keep operational disruption to a minimum.
The Lanham area, given its proximity to Washington DC and its location within Prince George’s County, is home to a significant number of federal employees, contractors, and public safety personnel who carry certification requirements tied to their roles. Our AHA courses meet the standards required by government agencies and public safety departments and produce documentation that holds up to federal and state review.
Healthcare and emergency response professionals in Lanham work demanding schedules that leave little room for lengthy training commitments. Our blended format was built with that reality in mind. The online coursework is completed entirely independently, and the skills session is focused and brief. The total time investment is a fraction of what a traditional classroom-based program requires, and most participants complete the entire process without missing a shift.
The American Heart Association certification issued through our program is recognized by hospitals, medical practices, academic institutions, and state licensing agencies throughout Maryland and across all fifty states. Whether you are applying for a new position, renewing your nursing license, or meeting a hospital’s annual credentialing requirements, an AHA eCard carries the authority those processes demand.
We offer skills sessions during morning, afternoon, evening, and weekend time blocks to accommodate providers working across every type of shift pattern. Night shift nurses, rotating schedule paramedics, and daytime office staff can all find a session time that does not require schedule manipulation to attend.
The moment your skills session is complete, your eCard is issued. There is no administrative queue, no follow-up email to wait for, and no physical card arriving by mail days later. Your certification documentation is ready to use immediately, which matters when an employer or licensing deadline is close.
At our Lanham location, AHA certification goes beyond paperwork. You’ll train on real equipment, work through real scenarios, and earn your official eCard the same day you walk in. BLS, ACLS, and PALS courses are available seven days a week, morning to evening because your schedule matters as much as your credentials.
Our Lanham location is convenient for providers throughout central and northern Prince George’s County, including Bowie, Hyattsville, College Park, Greenbelt, and Largo. Providers commuting from Capitol Heights and parts of southeast DC also frequently use our Lanham location given its position along major transit and road corridors.
You only need your HeartCode login details (username and password) to verify completion of the online course. All training equipment is provided at our location.
Yes. The Maryland Board of Nursing recognizes American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certifications for licensure purposes. The eCard serves as official documentation of course completion and can be submitted during the license renewal process.