AEDs in schools: When the Greg Moyer Fund decided to donated an AED to a high school on Oahu, their choice was Kalani High. That’s because Kalani has the Kalani High School Health Academy, a preparatory program for students interested medical careers.
Rachel Moyer of the Moyer Fund presented the Cardiac Science Powerheart G3 AED to the academy students as part of an hour-long presentation on sudden cardiac arrest. Pam Foster, president of AED Institute of America, who had taught the students CPR and AED use earlier in the year, donated a cabinet to house the AED.
Kalani High School Health Academy receives AED from Greg Moyer Fund.
After hearing Rachel Moyer speak, Kalani principal Gerald Teramae told her that, even with his health sciences background, he had not realized how important it is for a school to have an AED. Teramae plans to present information on AEDs to other high school administrators later this month, Moyer said.
Moyer told us she is in the process of drafting a bill that could make Hawaii the first state in the U.S to mandate (without funding) AEDs in schools from kindergartens through colleges. She calls the program “No Heart Left Behind.”
The Greg Moyer Fund was established in memory of Gregory W. Moyer, Moyer’s son, who died of sudden cardiac arrest while playing in a high school basketball game in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in 2000. The fund’s focus is on donation of AEDs to schools, emergency service organizations, and public areas, along with AED awareness, CPR/AED training, and AED legislation.
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