At Homer-Center High School yesterday, Renda Media’s Mark Bertig presented high school principal Jody Rainey and Homer City Area Athletic Booster Club vice president Chris Graham with a portable Automated External Defibrillator, which enables rapid, life-saving response to a patient suffering cardiac arrest.
Rainey says the new unit will be used at Memorial Field during football season and at the school complex at other times.
Rainey says the entire community will benefit from the generosity of the Pirates and Highmark.
The First Commonwealth bank Field complex has 52 acres and when tournaments are going on, there are hundreds of people across all five fields.
The Boosters’ Chris Graham says the donation will put an AED close to everyone.
Every year, between 350,000 and 400,000 people die from cardiac arrest, including about 9,000 youths. If CPR or an AED are used within three minutes of a cardiac event, almost 50% of those people will survive.
Mark Bertig, Jody Rainey, and Chris Graham spoke at yesterday’s presentation of an Automated External Defibrillator to Homer-Center and the Homer City Area Athletic Boosters.
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