Summer Safety Starts with CPR

Because you’re a monthly donor, you have all the best resources at your fingertips in the Heartbeat of Heart Community. This one can help you save a life. Watch the stories of women saved by CPR – and then learn this lifesaving skill for yourself. The power is in your hands.

Our hands can do so many things, the most important of which may be saving someone’s life. The power is in YOUR hands.

When a person has a cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediately receiving CPR from someone nearby.

Help your community by learning the 2 simple steps of Hands-Only CPR:

  1.  Call 911.
  2. Press hard and fast in the center of the chest.

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Stories of Survival

Each year, more than 350,000 people in the U.S. go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, including Stephanie and Gail. Meet these two incredible women who are alive today because people close to them knew life-saving CPR, which was developed by the American Heart Association.
Stephanie Austin, Cardiac Arrest Survivor and CPR recipient
Gail Hogan, Heart Disease Survivor & AHA Volunteer