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Loveland proclaims April 14, 2025 CPR and AED awareness day
Summary
Mayor and city council read a proclamation endorsing CPR and AED training, noting local statistics on out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrest, AED availability and training goals; community groups urged residents to download the PulsePoint Respond app and sign up for low‑cost classes.
The Loveland City Council issued a proclamation recognizing April 14, 2025, as CPR and AED awareness day and encouraged residents to download the PulsePoint Respond app and take CPR training, presenters said at a February 2025 study session.
Cara Pappas, executive director of the McKee Wellness Foundation and a representative of the Heart Safe Community Coalition, told council the community averages about "90 out of‑hospital cardiac arrests per year" and that "291 publicly accessible AEDs stand ready" in the district. She said more than 900 citizens were trained in CPR and AED use last year and the coalition’s goals for 2025 include training 1,000 people and placing an additional 48 AEDs.
Pappas urged four specific community actions: download the free PulsePoint Respond mobile app; take a CPR class (the Heart Safe Community Program offers classes for $10); encourage workplaces, schools and places of worship to obtain AEDs (grant and payment assistance is available); and consider financial contributions to the program. She gave cost examples cited by the coalition: "$380 covers a CPR class for 12 people" and "$1,740 covers a brand new device with signage and a cabinet for a new AED."
Loveland Fire Rescue Authority Chief James Robinson welcomed the proclamation and praised the community’s bystander response rate, saying the true first responders "are really the public" and that "early CPR, early recognition and notification, early CPR, and early defibrillation" are the critical steps that increase survival. He said residents in the Thompson Valley EMS service district are roughly "twice as likely to survive a sudden cardiac arrest and remain neurologically intact than the national average," a statistic presenters attributed to local program efforts.
Council members asked for practical details. Councilor McFall asked where people can donate; presenters directed donors to the Thompson Valley EMS (search: "TVEMS heart safe"). Councilors discussed offering short hands‑only CPR instruction at a council retreat and promoting school programs; a councilor noted a local school is running a CPR program.
The proclamation was read and recipients from Thompson Valley EMS, Loveland Fire Rescue Authority and partner organizations were invited forward to accept it. The city encouraged residents to download the PulsePoint Respond app and to enroll in local CPR classes to strengthen the community’s chain of survival.
