Defibrillator
Last month the LVH CERT team applied for a grant to the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund for an AED (automatic Electric Defibrillator) . Today we received a letter from them confirming we had been awarded $2000 to purchase this unit for our park.
The CERT team and many other volunteers in the park have been trained on how to use this life saving equipment. The grant includes $$ to train even more of you. The unit will be in located in the clubhouse available for emergency use at any time should someone become incapacitated. Our goal will be to see to it that as many residents that want are trained in CPR and its use.
Our CERT team has been concerned about getting a unit but finding the money had put it well out of reach of our park even though there were a few willing to donate as much as $100 toward purchasing one. Now, due to the generosity of the Siletz tribe, we find ourselves on the brink of accomplishing this worthy goal.
The new machine will be a ZOLL (brand name) and is the same machine Newport Paramedics use as well as Samaritan Hospital. Samaritan will be purchasing it for us which allows us to buy the unit at a discounted price.
The CERT team was responsible for developing the path to a machine. We wrote, rewrote and then rewrote some more and when it was just right we sent it to my favorite public relations officer at Foothill College (Lori Thomas) and asked her to make it shine ... and that she did.
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