UK HealthCare CECentral

Name

UK HealthCare CECentral

Legal name

University of Kentucky Healthcare CECentral

Website

https://cecentral.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Continuing Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (61131), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy) (EDAAALAC), Continuing Education (CE/CPD) & Provider Accreditation Bodies (EDADACAF)

Keywords

• Continuing medical education
• Healthcare professional training
• Accredited CE courses
• Nursing continuing education
• Interprofessional education

Headquarters

HQ city

Lexington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Course Fees and Sponsorship: Most courses are provided free of charge, supported by grants from organizations including CMS, HRSA, Kentucky state agencies, and the National Institute on Aging. Some courses may have registration fees for in-person events or specialized programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

UK HealthCare CECentral delivers accredited continuing education courses (CME, CNE, pharmacy, social work, IPCE) to individual healthcare professionals through an online catalog of live events, enduring on-demand courses, and bundled course series. Offerings are hosted on the EthosCE Learning Management System and include condition-specific programs such as Alzheimer's training, substance use disorder sequelae and stigma training, and the KEEN-CDC program, some of which are funded by grants (e.g., CMS, HRSA, NIA).

Product overview

UK HealthCare CECentral is a continuing education learning management system built on the EthosCE platform, offering healthcare professionals access to accredited CME courses. The system delivers content through multiple formats: Live Events (scheduled real-time courses), Enduring Courses (on-demand recordings), and Course Series (bundled multi-module programs). Key curated programs include The KEEN-CDC Program for Certified Nursing Facility dementia care (funded by CMS Grant #2018-04-KY-0329), the Alzheimer's Training Program developed with the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, and the Substance Use Disorder Sequelae and Stigma Training. The platform is jointly accredited by ACCME, ACPE, ANCC, and ASWB to award continuing education credits across multiple disciplines including AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, ANCC nursing contact hours, ACPE pharmacy credits, and ASWB social work credits. The platform also incorporates Ubercart e-commerce for course sales and integrates with University of Kentucky's LinkBlue authentication system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CECentral: Jointly accredited continuing education provider offering AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, ANCC nursing contact hours, ACPE pharmacy credits, and ASWB social work credits
• KEEN-CDC Program
• Alzheimer's Training

Products and services

• Live Events Live, scheduled continuing education sessions (e.g., webinars, virtual classes) that award accredited CE/CME/CNE credit to participating healthcare professionals.
• Enduring Courses On-demand, self-paced accredited continuing education courses that healthcare professionals can complete online to earn CE/CME/CNE credit.
• Course Series Bundled sets of related accredited continuing education courses that healthcare professionals can enroll in and complete as a single offering.
• KEEN-CDC Program A grant-funded continuing education program (KEEN-CDC) delivered to healthcare professionals, supported by agency funding such as CMS, HRSA, and NIA.
• Alzheimer's Training Program A condition-specific continuing education training program on Alzheimer's disease offered to healthcare professionals via the CE Central course catalog.
• Substance Use Disorder Sequelae and Stigma Training A condition-specific continuing education training program covering substance use disorder sequelae and stigma, offered to healthcare professionals through the CE Central catalog.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (University of Kentucky)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Sanders-Brown Center on Aging serves as the primary institutional partner for dementia and aging-related continuing education. The center provides faculty expertise, program development, and research-backed content for the KEEN-CDC program and Alzheimer's training initiatives. Dr. Gregory Jicha and other SBCoA faculty serve as course directors and speakers.
• Alzheimer's Association (Greater Kentucky and Southern Indiana Chapter)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Alzheimer's Association partnered in the development of the Alzheimer's Training program designed to support healthcare providers caring for those with memory loss or dementia. The partnership includes access to Alzheimer's Association TrialMatch resources and educational materials.
• Kentucky Office of the Inspector GeneralcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Kentucky Office of the Inspector General co-funded the KEEN-CDC program to address CMS deficiencies in certified nursing facility dementia care. The partnership provides regulatory oversight alignment and funding for CNF staff education.
• Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerKIPRC partnered with UK HealthCare CECentral on the Substance Use Disorder Sequelae and Stigma Training series, providing content expertise on injection drug use and related health conditions.
• Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative (KyPQC)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerKyPQC partnered on the SUD in pregnancy training module, contributing to maternal and infant health outcome education for healthcare providers.
• Kentucky Department for Public HealthsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe state health department collaborated on substance use disorder training content, supporting public health priorities around opioid use and related conditions.
• Area Health Education Center (AHEC)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerAHEC partnered in the development of the Alzheimer's Training program to support healthcare providers throughout Kentucky and the southeastern United States.
• Kentucky TelecaresecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerKentucky Telecare partnered on the Alzheimer's Training program development to extend dementia care education to rural and underserved populations via telemedicine platforms.
• Kentucky Opioid Overdose Prevention Education Network (KY-OPEN)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerKY-OPEN is listed as a community partner on the platform, focusing on opioid overdose prevention education for Kentucky healthcare providers.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Relias (formerly CE Direct): Relias is a large healthcare workforce education platform that serves hospitals, nursing facilities, and health systems with continuing education and staff training. It competes for the same healthcare-professional CE demand as CECentral but sells primarily to enterprise employers rather than individual clinicians.
• Medscape Education: Medscape Education is one of the largest free, accredited CME/CE providers for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals. It overlaps with CECentral in jointly accredited, multi-discipline healthcare CE delivered online to U.S. clinicians, but operates at much broader national scale.
• Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development: Mayo Clinic's CPD unit offers jointly accredited CME/CE across live conferences, online courses, and specialty programming — anchored by Mayo's academic medical faculty much as CECentral is anchored by the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. It represents a larger, more established academic-CE peer in the same niche.
• Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education: Cleveland Clinic operates an academic medical CE platform offering live courses, enduring online CME, and specialty conferences for healthcare professionals. It is comparable to CECentral as a university-affiliated, accredited CE provider but with national brand reach and larger course volumes.

Direct peers

• Pri-Med: Pri-Med delivers accredited CME/CE for primary care clinicians through live conferences and on-demand online courses, mirroring CECentral's live-plus-enduring delivery model. It is the closest direct comparable in joint-accredited CE for practicing healthcare providers.
• CME Outfitters: CME Outfitters is an accredited continuing medical education company delivering live and online CME/CE for physicians, pharmacists, and nurses. It is a direct peer in jointly accredited, multi-discipline healthcare professional CE with a strong emphasis on free, grant-supported activities.
• CE Central (CEConnection, by Colibri Healthcare): CE Connection (formerly CE Central) is a Colibri Healthcare–operated online platform offering accredited CE for nurses, therapists, and healthcare professionals across disciplines. It directly competes with CECentral for the same clinician audience seeking free or low-cost accredited CE on demand.
• Learner.com (CE for Healthcare Professionals): Learner.com is an accredited provider of nursing, social work, and behavioral-health CE courses delivered online to individual clinicians. It directly overlaps CECentral's ANCC- and ASWB-accredited CE on-demand offering to licensed nurses and social workers in Kentucky and beyond.

Others

• Wild Apricot: Wild Apricot is an association/learning platform often used by small education and professional-association providers. It is comparable to CECentral as adjacent technology infrastructure used by smaller continuing-education providers to deliver courses and manage memberships, though not a direct competitor in clinical CE.
• EthosCE: EthosCE is the learning management system vendor that powers UK HealthCare CECentral's course delivery, credit tracking, and certificate generation. As the platform provider it is structurally comparable to CECentral's deliverable LMS infrastructure rather than a direct content competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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