What is a HeartSafe Community? A HeartSafe Community focuses on saving lives! Hands-only CPR training, AED access, and heart healthly programs are just a few of the criteria a community must meet in order to achieve the "HeartSafe Community" designation! Click here to go to the HeartSafe site for for more information.
Here are the 13 critical criteria needed to achieve HEARTSafe Community status;
- Establishing a High-Performance Lead Agency and Community Team
- Using Data to Drive Regional Strategies and Localized Tactics
- Trained Citizen Rescuers
- Recognizing and Celebrating the Actions of Rescuers
- Educated and Responsive Citizens
- Telephone Guided CPR and Utilization of AEDs
- Planned and Practiced Response to Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- Strategically Placed and 24/7 Accessible AEDs
- 911 Integrated AED Registry
- First Responder Defibrillation
- High-Performance Resuscitation
- Quality Improvement and Public Reporting
- Meaningful Primary and Secondary Health Promotion and Prevention
Iowa City and Coralville Rotary-Kerber HeartSafe Campaign
Click here to see the Iowa City Rotary-Keber Heart Safe Campaign website.
HeartSafe success stories
Click to see a video of high school CPR saved an Iowa City Woman
Click on the media links below to read more
Johnson County becomes state’s second community to ‘heart’ this CPR app
Lifesaving technology introduced in Johnson County
See that yellow box? It could save your life
App to alert Johnson County citizens of nearby cardiac arrests
Citizen CPR – Fiona Johnson on KICI Radio
Watch our HeartSafe Community Announcement!
Johnson County is Officially a HeartSafe Community!
Iowa Men’s Basketball Team Trained in CPR and AED
PulsePoint launches in Johnson County, calling on people to help cardiac arrest victims