HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Feb. 13, 2024) – Another step in the effort to make Holland a HeartSafe Community begins on Wednesday.
In conjunction with February being American Heart Month, and Wednesday being Valentine’s Day for loving hearts, HeartSafe Holland, along with the Ottawa County Central Dispatch Authority, will unveil, during an 11 AM Wednesday press briefing at the Kollen Park Fire Station, two free-to-download mobile applications for use by area residents. The PulsePoint Respond and PulsePoint AED apps will alert CPR-trained citizens of cardiac events in their vicinity that they can respond to, as well as building a comprehensive Automated External Defibrillator registry, and to inform the community of emergency activity in real time.
HeartSafe Holland is an effort to train people of all walks of life the techniques to administer hands-only CPR. One of the over four thousand who has been so trained in this area, and is now a leading proponent of this initiative, is former Holland City Councilman Jay Peters.
An online link to PulsePoint, a national nonprofit that builds apps for use by public safety agencies to increase community awareness during critical events, is here.
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