building a heartsafe community

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The town of Farmington is an accredited HEARTSafe Community in cooperation with the NH Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, the Division of Fire Standards and Training & Emergency Medical Services, Department of Safety, the NH Division of Public Health Services, the Department of Health & Human Services and the American Heart Association. This program recognizes communities that have demonstrated efforts to improve their system of preventing sudden cardiac arrest from progressing to irreversible death. Part of this accreditation includes widespread CPR training and public access defibrillators. The town of Farmington now has automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at all town-owned buildings, and Farmington Fire Rescue provides monthly FREE HEARTSAVER FIRST AID CPR AED TRAINING to town residents and employees.

 Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrive. Skills covered in this course include first aid, choking relief in adults, children, and infants, and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children, and infants.  The course teaches skills with the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills. 

There is no cost to take the instructor-led course to members of the community. Upon successful completion of the course, students are eligible to receive a course completion card for a $10.00 fee as required by the AHA.

Blended learning courses require purchasing online training modules from the AHA. Upon successful completion of an online course, students may print a course completion certificate. In order to receive a course completion card, which may be required for some employment purposes, the student must attend an in-person skills session. It is highly recommended that anyone who takes an online delivered course also complete the in-person skills session. Links to the online delivered courses are provided below. The online portion must be completed prior to registering for the in-person skills session for all blended learning courses.