HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 05.bMemorandum
To:
Mark Bellows
Laurie Rieb
Kerrin Swecker
Colleen Ratzlaff
Matt Little
From: Thomas E. Vonhof
Chief of Police
Copy: Steven C. Mielke
City Administrator
Date: March 17, 2011
Subject: Heart Safe Community Presentation
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City of Lakeville
Police Department
The City of Lakeville is being awarded the Heart Safe Community designation by Allina
Medical Transportation in partnership with the American Heart Association. This award is
presented to those communities who work to improve the survival rates of victims of out of
hospital sudden cardiac arrests.
Kim Harkins, Allina Heart Safe Communities Supervisor, will make the presentation,
which will include presenting the City Council with a Heart Safe Community plaque
and two roadway signs designating Lakeville as a Heart Safe Community.
According to Kim Harkins, Lakeville has successfully achieved the Heart Safe
Community designation by developing and implementing a community action plan that
includes: providing CPR with Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training, helping
community members recognize the warning signs and symptoms of heart attack,
activating community members to call 911 and use CPR /AED, as medically appropriate.
Designated Heart Safe Communities have AEDs in strategic public locations where they
are readily available to use in a cardiac emergency, and develop a community
emergency response plan that furthers the goal of saving lives from cardiac arrest.