Baptist awarded for spreading CPR knowhow
SPECIAL TO THE
CHRONICLE
The American Heart
Association has present
ed Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Center's CPR
Community Training
Program with an award
for increasing the number
of people it has trained in
CPR.
Only 28 CPR
Community Training
Centers in the U.S. have
received the award. Wake
Forest Baptist was one of
two North Carolina train
ing centers recognized.
"This award would
not have been possible
without the assistance of
a team of highly motivat
ed individuals, comprised
of CPR training sites,
such as Iredell, Hugh
Chatham, Northern
Hospital, Life Support
Education, Forsyth
Technical Community
College, and the State
Highway Patrol, and
more than 400 independ
ent instructors," said
Kathy Nelson, American
Heart Association
r
Regional Outreach
Training Center
Coordinator for Wake
Forest Baptist. "Our goal
is to improve community
initiatives and help save
lives. In 2012, we collab
oratively trained 27,665
people to be able to do
just that."
Nearly 383,000 out
of-hospital sudden car
diac arrests occur annual
ly. Four out of five car
diac arrests happen at
I
home. Statistically speak
ing, if called on to admin
ister CPR in an emer
gency, the life you save is
likely to be someone at
home: a child, a spouse, a
parent or a friend.
Effective bystander
CPR provided immedi
ately after sudden cardiac
arrest can double or triple
a victim's chance of sur
vival, but only 32 percent
of cardiac arrest victims
get CPR from a
bystander. Less than
eight percent of people
who suffer cardiac arrest
outside the hospital sur
vive.
"This award for top
one percent of growth in
the country translates
into more CPR trained
individuals in the region,
resulting in more people
being able to save more
lives," shares Rod
Kimble, American Heart
Association Emergency
Cardiovascular Care
Senior Account Manager
for North Carolina and
South Carolina. "The per
formance of Wake Forest
Baptist's CPR Training
Program sets a high bar
for the country and is
deserving of this distin
guished national recogni
tion."
AHA Photo
Posing with the award are (from left) Marilyn Calhoun (CPR coordinator/instructor at Forsyth Tech),
Daphne Southard (program assistant at Baptist's Community Training Center), the AHA's Kathy Nelson, Billy
Haynes (coordinator of Life Support Education at Baptist) and the AHA's Rod Kimble and Sarah Fedele.
A Day to Remember
Sunday, Oct. 20 was a
special day at Friendship
Baptist Church. The
morning service began
after congregants took
part in a unity march led
by Patricia Frazier. the
mother of the church's
late pastor. Rev. Slacey L.
Frazier. The service cele
brated Friendship's 99th
anniversary, and, equally
as important, the paying
off of the church's mort
gage, which was symboli
cally burned during the
event.
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