Heart-Safe Community Effort

Project Heart ReStart needs your help.  Death caused by sudden cardiac arrest is preventable when external defibrillators (AEDs) are easily accessible.

Monetary donations are extremely helpful, but you can also help by…

• Learn CPR and how to use an AED.  It’s easy.  You could be the one called upon to save the life of someone—perhaps someone you know!  And if your heart stops suddenly, who around you is trained in CPR?

• Contact your elected government officials to tell them you support laws that would encourage the placement of AEDs in buildings that hold more than 100 people.  Write to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and let them know you support making AEDs a required part of a workplace inspection.

• If your workplace doesn’t have an AED(s), ask your manager or human resources director to install this life-saving device.  At a minimum, support CPR training for your company.  Contact Project Heart ReStart for additional support materials.

• When you attend public functions like theatrical performances, sports events and concerts, ask about the location of the AED.  If there is not one present, ask “Why?”  Let the facility owner know that you are concerned that there is not an AED present.    

• Help support placement of AEDs in locations often occupied with larger at-risk populations.  For example, many health care facilities such as nursing homes do not have AEDs.  In addition to end of life care for the elderly or terminally ill, many modern nursing homes are filled with short-term care and rehabilitation patients who are younger, healthier and viable.

If you would like to join the fight to end needless deaths from SCA, please contact us.