Congratulations to the City of Roseville. The city has been designated a Heart Safe Community. On Monday, May 20, the City Council will accept a plaque to commemorate this accomplishment.
Heart safe community designation helps to make the community a safer place by being prepared to reduce the number of deaths and disabilities associated with Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
The designation program aims to increase survival rates of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). It does this by helping communities assess their preparedness for cardiac emergencies and finding gaps where improvements can be made. Heart Safe Designation is reached by acquiring points or ‘heartbeats’ based on population size. Heartbeats are given for community awareness programs, cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, AED placement and mapping, access to emergency services and progressive hospital systems, and development of community heart healthy activities.
Roseville met the application requirements by teaching hands-only CPR and AED awareness to almost 2,000 people. The group located 56+ public access AEDs. As part of the Heart Safe program, the Roseville Fire Department and dispatch center launched Pulse Point, a crowd sourcing app to improve awareness and notification of bystander CPR and AED locations. The group developed a sustainability program for Heart Safe to assure excellence of cardiac care, understanding and response in the City of Roseville.
Partners in the Heart Safe Designation program include the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium at the University of Minnesota, Allina Health EMS Heart Safe Communities Program, North Memorial Heart Safe Communities Program, Take Heart St. Cloud, Take Heart America and others. In addition Roseville’s Community Health Awareness Team (CHAT) was instrumental in supporting the city’s efforts to achieve the designation.