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Anchorage Fire Department and American Heart Association CEO Breakfast
The Anchorage Fire Department and the American Heart Association have joined forces to promote a city-wide CPR initiative called The Big Wild Heart of Anchorage. This Friday, October 10, a CEO breakfast will kick off this initiative at the The Hotel Captain Cook, Endeavor Room, 7:00am – 8:30am.
The Big Wild Heart of Anchorage is a community-based CPR training program designed to increase the number of citizens trained to respond to a cardiac event; thus improving the outcome of sudden cardiac arrests. Those who learn CPR can be trained in as little as 30 minutes on realistic mannequins, and can take an online course to earn a credentialed card that meets most OSHA requirements for the workplace. Since most cardiac events occur in the home; the workplace is the ideal place to increase lay citizen training, because the likelihood of performing CPR will be on someone you know and love.
At the breakfast, Ed Lamb, CEO for Alaska Regional Hospital, Michael Levy, MD, and Craig Goodrich, Anchorage Fire Chief, will speak with community leaders to increase awareness of the initiative and its importance to improving sudden cardiac arrest outcomes in Anchorage. These community leaders will be encouraged to support employer based CPR training, with a goal to train their entire workforce over the next 10 years. Guests include Carol Comeau, ASD Superintendent, Former Governor Wally Hickel, and Beverly Wooley, Director of the Division of Public Health with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. Two Anchorage stories of survival will be told with awards being presented to three lay rescuers who were involved in the lives saved.
For more information or a list of attendees, please contact Suzanne Sands,
American Heart Association Director of Government Affairs and State Health Alliances
(907) 727-2969
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