Owatonna Police Department donate AED to Owatonna Parks & Recreation Department
OWATONNA, Minn 03/17/2008--The Owatonna Police Department (OPD) recently donated a second retired automated external defibrillators (AED) to the Owatonna Parks & Recreation Department for use at the Warsinski Chalet during the winter months and Lake Kohlmier beach during the summer months.
The OPD was able to donate another previously-used AED to the city of Owatonna after receiving seven new AEDs through Owatonna Hospital’s Heart Safe Communities initiative. The Heart Safe Communities initiative is an Allina Hospitals & Clinics system-wide initiative to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest. The goal is to place AEDs in public facilities like schools, senior centers, libraries, and government buildings, as well as to provide training to help community members respond to sudden cardiac arrest.
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in the United States, striking more than 450,000 people a year. Having an AED in multiple locations within a community is important when saving lives, because the most effective treatment for sudden cardiac arrest is an electric shock to the heart, called defibrillation. This "shock" is administered by an AED. The AED comes with voice prompts making it easy for the lay rescuer to save a life.
For more information about donating to the Heart Safe Communities initiative, call 507-444-6070 or visit the hospital’s website at www.owatonnahospital.com.
About Owatonna Hospital
The new Owatonna Hospital will be connected to the current Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System 26th Street location, off Interstate 35, creating a health care campus. The facility will be designed to create an environment for providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care for residents in the region.
Owatonna Hospital and Allina Hospitals & Clinics are taking a leadership role to promote healthy eating and physical activity through their heart healthy living and obesity initiatives with an emphasis on childhood obesity. Over the next five years, Allina and Owatonna Hospital will be working with community organizations to improve nutrition and increase physical activity to decrease obesity and improve heart health.
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