[KSTP TV, July 05, 2013]
For someone who has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), the life-saving difference for them is usually whether someone nearby knows how to perform CPR properly. Allina Health EMS medical director Dr. Charles Lick talked about this with KSTP's Ellen McNamara.
July 05, 2013
[KMSP Fox 9 News, February 09, 2013]
The American Heart Association launched Go Red for Women to raise awareness and help women take preventative action to reduce their personal risk factors for heart disease. Part of that is learning CPR.
February 09, 2013
[Pioneer Press, January 12, 2013]
Bill Schwartz doesn't remember his children screaming. He doesn't remember his car rolling down the driveway, or the impact as it hit a neighbor's house.
January 12, 2013
[KMSP-TV Fox 9 News, November 13, 2012]
An investigation by Fox 9 News shows some Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), meant to shock cardiac arrest victim's hearts back to life, may fail because they haven't been maintained properly. The Allina Health HeartSafe Communities Program provides needed maintenance for the AEDs it places.
November 16, 2012
[Pierce County Herald, August 21, 2012]
“We are often faced with medical aid calls when it is very important for us to have this equipment available to us,” said Ellsworth Police Chief Greg Place. Place accepted the automated external defibrillator from Heather Logelin, director of Community Engagement for the River Falls Area Hospital Foundation and Katie Tewalt, Heart Safe Communities manager, a program of Allina Health .
August 21, 2012
[ABC Newspapers, April 12, 2012]
The stars were aligned over Coon Rapids one morning in February. So much so that Mary Rosemark, 49, Coon Rapids, survived a pulmonary embolism thank to the swift action of her husband, Dan Rosemark, an Allina EMS crew, and emergency responders from several agencies.
April 12, 2012
[Fox 9 News, March 22, 2012]
Two men -- one a doctor and the other a banker -- both shared a love of basketball, but neither could have imagined they would have shared a moment that would lead one to save the other's life. Dr. Frank Anderson's love for basketball may have saved his life.
March 26, 2012
[Pioneer Press, January 01, 0001]
Where can you go to fix a broken heart? Allina's ambulance service is working with a Florida company to answer the question with a map of all automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the Twin Cities.
February 23, 2012
[KARE 11, February 14, 2012]
Allina Medical Transportation is the first EMS service in the nation linked to a national program to help cardiac arrest victims. The program is called AED Link and it is aimed at getting defibrillators to cardiac patients faster.
February 15, 2012
[Star Tribune, May 03, 2011]
There are few better places anywhere to have a cardiac arrest than Hennepin County. And that's no joke.
May 04, 2011