Communities are the ultimate coronary care units. Learn about HEARTSafe Communities, a population and criteria based incentive program to help communities save the lives of sudden cardiac arrest victims.

1. David B. Hiltz, NREMT-P American Heart Association Translating Science into Action: Using Population and Criteria-based Incentive Programs to Advance Systems Change and Chain of Survival Priorities

14. HEART Safe History Howard Koh, MD,MPh Former Public Health Commissioner Now Director , Division of Public Health Practice Harvard University

16. Oh…and no, there isn’t any funding

18. Mike and David

27. Initial Funding $3,000

30. Process

32. HEART Safe Designation Events

35. One Hundred and Forty-Four Massachusetts HEARTSafe Communities Region 3 SUFFOLK PLYMOUTH DUKES as of May 19th, 2006 Region 4 Region 2 Region 1 BERKSHIRE WORCESTER FRANKLIN HAMPSHIRE HAMPDEN NORFOLK MIDDLESEX ESSEX BRISTOL by Emergency Medical Service Regions and Counties Region 5 BARNSTABLE NANTUCKET HEART Safe Community Designation requires that a Community VIGOROUSLY support community training in CPR and strategic public placement of AEDs for trained users Source: Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services, May 19, 2006

36. Unique Designations

37. Unique Designations

38. Pending Designations

39. Unique Request

40. Promotion at ECCU

41. Outside of MA

45. HEART Safe RI Lifesaving Potential 200 50 1000 Rhode Island Goal – Lives Saved at 20% Survival Rate Lives Saved at Current Survival Rate – 5% Estimated SCA Frequency Location

49. HEART Safe RI PSA

51. Inside RI Warwick Task Force

53. Warwick Task Force

61. Not Always So Easy!

62. HeartSafe Materials http://www.mari-ecc.org/

63. Where Can We Go From Here?