The application period for the EMS Section’s Heart Safe Community Award is now open.
This award is presented to fire-service based EMS agencies that have played a key role in improving the quality of out-of-hospital treatment of heart disease, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and resuscitation efforts. The Heart Safe Community Award Program is sponsored by PulsePoint.
REQUIREMENTS
Agencies and systems nominated will have demonstrated creative approaches to improving therapies for patients experiencing cardiac-related emergencies or SCA through:
- Access to emergency care
- Emergency medical dispatch
- AED access and first response
- Citizen Alerting
- Bystander CPR
- High performance team-based resuscitation
- Advanced life support
- Data collection and review
- Additional information/enhancements to program
There will be two awards:
- Small/Mid-Size Community (Population of 100,000 or less)
- Large Community (Population of 100,001 or more)
