Home Health Aide in Washington
WA State Dept. of Health — Home Care Aide (HCA)
Washington is the standout for language access in home care. Its Department of Health credentials a Home Care Aide (HCA), and the HCA certification exam (administered by Prometric) is a genuine multilingual WRITTEN test — offered in English plus about 13 translations including Simplified Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Spanish, so a candidate can take the real written exam in their language. Training is 75 hours (5 hours orientation/safety plus 70 core) plus 12 population-specific hours. (Cantonese is available as a spoken option; the written exam uses Simplified Chinese.) This is the one nursing-cluster credential with a true per-language exam. Our multilingual practice questions match that.
📋 Exam facts
Real Washington exam administration — from the official source
- Practice questions (this site)
- 305
- Testing agency
- Prometric (Home Care Aide certification exam)
- Real written-test languages
- English · Spanish · Chinese · Korean · Vietnamese · Amharic · Arabic · Khmer · Laotian · Russian · Samoan · Somali · Tagalog · Ukrainian
- To pass
- Home Care Aide certification exam (Prometric); written exam offered in English + ~13 translations; passing score per current Prometric bulletin (to confirm)
- Fee
- To confirm
- Training hours
- 75 hours (5 orientation/safety + 70 core) + 12 population-specific
- Written-exam languages
- English + Amharic, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Samoan, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese (Cantonese offered as a spoken option)
🗓️ Last updated: 2026-07-06
📄 Based on: WA DOH Home Care Aide exam-information page (language list) + 42 CFR 484.80, checked 2026-07-06
Home health aide certification is largely governed by federal training + competency-evaluation rules (42 CFR 484.80), not a national written exam. This table shows only facts confirmed from an official source on the date noted; anything unconfirmed is marked “to confirm.” Except for Washington's Home Care Aide exam, there is no statewide multilingual written test — the competency evaluation is given by your training program or agency. Always verify current requirements with your state agency before you register.