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CPR and First Aid training
Thursday, July 7th, 2011April is Pet safety awareness month
Monday, April 11th, 2011April is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
Hundreds Of Pets Lost During Natural Disasters Each Year
Each year, hundreds of pets are lost during natural disasters, and many are never reunited with their owners due to a lack of proper identification.
That’s why the American Red Cross has named April National Pet First Aid Awareness Month so pet owners can take time to prepare for disasters.
Veterinary Pet Insurance Co.’s veterinary expert, Dr. Silene Young offers this advice for pet owners.
Preparing for a Disaster and Evacuation:
- Make sure your pet can be identified with an ID tag and microchip. Don’t forget to register the microchip. – If evacuation occurs, don’t wait to the last minute and don’t leave your pet at home. Think of a place to take your pet ahead of time. – Have an emergency kit with basic pet care items, including a two-week supply of food and water. – Keep a cat carrier and/or dog leashes near the front door and within reach. – Leave pet information, such as type, amount and behavior tendencies, at your front door in case you must evacuate before going home and authorities search the neighborhood for those left behind.
Pet Care During and After Evacuation:
- Keep the animal confined when staying in your pre-designated temporary location and maintain confinement when you return home. – If the pet has been deprived of food, slowly re-introduce food in small portions when returning home. – View the pet’s environment and spot out any potential hazards, such as broken glass or fallen utility lines. – Take the pet for a medical check-up to ensure the animal’s health hasn’t been affected.
Now….become a consciously safe pet owner and take our dog/cat CPR and First Aid course! Join the growing group of our happy pet owners. We can train individuals (check our calendar) and private groups.
Dear Doggie parks, have you been certified in CPR? If not, schedule with us! Dear Kennel owners, when was the last time you thought of taking CPR and First Aid to help the animals under your care??
Take a class now!
Stay safe and keep your pooch and kitty safe too!
Shannon
AED placement in Rural areas needed
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Funding for AED Placement Eliminated in President’s Budget
Placing more AEDs in rural areas and small communities will help save lives; however, funding for a program that does just that is completely eliminated in President Obama’s recent budget proposal.
Join us in calling on Congress to restore funding for the Rural and Community Access to Emergency Devices Program. It is critical that constituents like you express how important this funding is to communities that otherwise cannot make the investment necessary to protect their citizens from sudden cardiac arrest. Send a quick, personalized email to your legislators right now!
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cpr/Childcare Minneapolis,HANNA’S LAW
Monday, February 28th, 2011Childcare Centers listen up! You need the best training possible. Schedule yours now. Our centers and private care providers have the top of the line education, period!
New’s update as of today……..Hanna’s law is Passing!
Holberg, Hall sponsor ‘Hannah’s Law,’ named for 4-year-old who died after choking on a grape
by John Gessner
Thisweek Newspapers
Emotion gripped Ron Edlund of Lakeville as he talked about his granddaughter, Hannah Kozitza.
The 4-year-old died last June after choking on a grape at a North Mankato child-care center.
With only one staff member at the center trained in CPR, Hannah’s family is left wondering whether quicker intervention from a nearby teacher could have saved her.
“We’ll never know,” Edlund said at a state Capitol news conference Tuesday.
Two south metro lawmakers have sponsored a bill that requires all teachers and assistant teachers in state-licensed child-care centers to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including CPR for infants and children.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mary Liz Holberg, R-Lakeville, and Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, passed out of a House committee Tuesday and was introduced in the Senate. Holberg said the lobbyist for Minnesota’s licensed day-care association told her the group won’t oppose the bill.
Holberg, who represents District 36A, agreed to sponsor the bill in the House after getting a call from Edlund, one of her constituents.
Hall, who represents District 40, is a former first aid instructor who said he’s saved two lives using CPR.
“This law is just common sense to me,” the freshman senator said, a framed photo of Hannah nearby. “Anyone who looks at this face would say, ‘Let’s do something.’ ”
Hannah’s parents, Justin and Jenna Kozitza, spoke at the news conference.
“What we’ve had to go through in the last six, seven months is just unbelievable,” Justin said. “It’s hard being here. It brings out a lot of emotions. But we’re still here.”
“Hannah’s Law” would require teachers and assistant teachers to complete CPR training within 90 days of starting work, unless they’ve completed the training in the previous three years. The training would have to be repeated every three years.
The four-hour training costs about $60, Hall said.
The bill applies only to state-licensed child care, not county-licensed home care, Holberg said.
Many national child-care chains already required CPR training for their teachers, and parent demand would likely widen the practice even without the law, Holberg said.
The center Hannah attended, the Golden Heart Child Care Center, was fined $1,000 for negligence, according to Holberg.
A Minnesota family whose daughter died at her day care is trying to help other children. They’re trying to help with a bill making its way through the Minnesota legislature. Annie Stensrud explains from Mankato.
Just two and a half months past what would have been little Hannah Kozitza’s 5th birthday, her family strives to prevent another death like hers.
“Just an energetic little girl that was taken away way too young,”said Hannah’s father Justin Kozitza. To say Hannah’s death was a shock to family is an understatement.”It was terrible.
I don’t want to live that day again, it was terrible. A parent’s worst nightmare,” said Jenni.
Justin says everyday they re–live that June morning when Hannah choked on a grape at Golden Heart Daycare and eventually died. She’d gone to that daycare for quite some time and the Kozitzas trusted them.
“You expect your child to come home from daycare when you drop them off. You don’t expect to bury your child that night,” said Jenni. The daycare called the Kozitzas before calling 911. When paramedics got there, it was too late.
Hannah’s grandpa Tony heard the sirens. He found out what happened just a few minutes later.”It was really a sad situation when we got there. There was no less than twenty hospital staff working with her when we got there and we thought that we could bring her back, but it was already too late,” said Tony.
“It’s hard telling your eight year old daughter that her best friend and sister has passed away. And for her to go in there and see her and tell her to wake up, it was really hard to see. Nobody should have to go through that,” said Justin.
When the Department of Human services conducted their investigation, they found no proof that the employees who helped Hannah had been certified in CPR.In fact, the law only requires one employee of a daycare to be certified.
That’s why the new bill “Hannah’s Law” is moving through the legislature right now. “We’re in the process of passing that law so that everyone has to be CPR certified, so that this doesn’t happen to another family,” said Jenni.”If there would have been someone there at that immediate time, which this law should help with, then there might have been a chance that she’d be here today.”
The report shows that the daycare facility has changed some of its procedures for giving kids snacks. Hannah’s law has passed through several committees, but it still has a way to go.
CPR/First Aid in Minnesota
Monday, January 24th, 20112011 starting up!
Revving engines and trying to get going in the morning is all to familiar to most people in Minnesota right now. I’ll tell you a little story…..
You’re about to go to the store (just up the block or two) and hurry to get in the car, missing your hat and gloves of course, you grabbed your coffee mug and drinking your coffee on the way there makes you somewhat warmer. Half way there you hear an awful pop noise and there goes the right front tire! Great, it’s cold, snowy, the car is out of control, your coffee spills all over you AND…after a lucky stop and no accident, you think….great the car is full of ”dirty snow” and now you have to change the tire! (you don’t have AAA of course). If you were to change this scene, what would you do different??
It’s all too a familiar story for a lot of folks. Preparing for the worse case scenario is so important. We all hope it never happens but if it does, we know we are covered! What’s a few second more to grab that hat and gloves, NOT drink and drive ANYTHING, and make sure you know HOW TO change your tire or at least know the actions to take when broken down on the road. Safety is a life saving action. Make sure you are. Read your car manual if you haven’t already, it has great tips and shows you how to change your tire too.
What do I do if my child/family member/employee/ has frost nip, UM, what is frost nip??
Take our first aid class with our great trainers and find out just what needs to be done for nip, bite and other weather related emergencies AND how to prevent these emergencies all together! Prepare your skin for the cold outside, do you know how??
Until next time,
Stay safe, happy and warm!
Shannon