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Town Pump Charitable Foundation donates medical equipment to Cottonwood, Davey and Gildford Colony school districts
Cottonwood Schools teacher Monica Mattson, from left, Cottonwood Schools Board Chair Carol Bachini-Wood and board members Janas Strauser and Stacey Rismon and Cottonwood teacher Lona Gibbs pose with a automated external defibrillators donated to the schools by Town Pump Charitable Foundation.
Davey School Board members Violet Davey, from left, J.B. Hould and board Chair Lisa Hanson pose with the automated external defibrillator donated to the schools by Town Pump Foundation.
Press release
Town Pump Charitable Foundation awarded three Hill County rural schools $7,140 for four automated external defibrillators, or AED, devices, used to deliver a jolt of electricity if someone is suffering cardiac arrest, to try to normalize the heart beat.
The three schools hat received the AEDs are Cottonwood West and Cottonwood North District #57, Davey Elementary District #12 and Gildford Colony Elementary District #89.
The four Phillips HeartSine Onsite AED devices were awarded just as the schools' staff received American Red Cross training by Hill County Ambulance EMT Jessica Stevenson.
She said, "This is a crucial training in extremely rural areas; areas that are miles from the nearest medical center or medical help," Stevenson said.
She added that the placement of these devices in rural schools is "logical because it serves as a medical necessity in school community gathering areas."
She also said that "the immediacy a person-in-need receives an AED will provide a greater chance for survival."
Hill County rural school board members held a vision and adopted a goal to create safer communities and made a dedicated effort to have AED programs coupled with the training of school staff and community members if the need arose.
Two Cottonwood School teachers concurred.
"It's nice to know that we can provide immediate care to someone in need since we are so far from town," Monica Mattson said
"In an emergency, it will be able to provide lifesaving care for students and staff while waiting for emergency care to arrive," Fellow Cottonwood teacher Lona Gibbs said,
Serena Dawson, Davey School clerk and business manager said the AEDs could make a major difference.
"Since we are a rural school, we can take emergency action as we wait for ambulance service," she said . "The implementation of an AED with staff training at each school would complement the statistic that shows 9 out 10 cardiac arrest victims who receive a shock from an AED in the first minutes will live."
AEDs at these county schools gives Havre's ambulance's extra time to reach the cardiac-arrested person. For example, from a Havre medical facility, Cottonwood West School is 7.4 miles, Cottonwood North is 22.6 miles, Davey is 11 miles and Gildford Colony School is 48.5 miles.Gained minutes creates a survival a path for a person in need.
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