BRHS to receive CPR in Schools kit

Wed, 10/18/2017 - 10:30am

The American Heart Association (AHA) and Subway Restaurants will be presenting a CPR in Schools kit to Boothbay Region High School on Monday, Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. so that teachers can instruct their students on Hands-Only CPR. Earlier this year, Subway stores in Maine asked customers to contribute to the “Help Make CPR in Maine Schools Cool” initiative by making a donation at participating Subway stores.  This effort raised more than $23,000 to benefit the AHA in Maine - supporting their goal to ensure that all Maine high school students are trained in Hands-Only CPR by placing these kits at several Maine high schools.

Passed in 2014, the bill LD 556 "An Act To Require Public Schools To Offer Instruction Related to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and the Use of an Automated External Defibrillator" requires all Maine schools to offer CPR training to students at some point during their high school years, but does not currently include a graduation requirement. 

The AHA is committed to making the implementation of Hands-Only CPR training in Maine high schools as easy as possible and to strive to make Hands-Only CPR instruction a graduation requirement in the future. The kit is designed to train a class of 10 students at once. One kit can train hundreds of students when used year after year.