Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers Course Offered September 9th

Deadline for Registration is September 4

The Center for Workforce & Professional Development at Central Maine Community College (CMCC) will offer the American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers course on Saturday, September 9 from 8:00 a.m. to noon.

This course is designed to provide a wide variety of professionals with the skills needed to help victims until they can be treated by paramedics or at a hospital. The course covers adult and pediatric CPR, use of the bag-valve mask, airway obstruction, automated external defibrillation (with child AED update), stroke and cardiac arrest and other special resuscitation situations.

This single-evening course is open to the public and is intended for physicians, nurses, paramedics, first responders, medical technicians, aids or assistants and anyone whose work brings them into contact with members of the public such as school, hotel, fitness center and restaurant employees. Registration for this course is open and ongoing, but space is limited. The cost of the class is $89 and includes materials.

For more information or to register, please contact the Center for Workforce & Professional Development at 207-755-5280, email workforcedevelopment@cmcc.edu, or visit www.cmcc.edu/training to register online. Deadline for registration is Monday, September 4.

About the Center for Workforce & Professional Development

The Center for Workforce & Professional Development at Central Maine Community College provides customized training programs to business, government, nonprofit and other organizations throughout Androscoggin, Oxford, Franklin and Lincoln counties. In addition, they offer both non-credit classes and certification programs on a wide range of subject matter. Their mission is to support community and promote economic development by offering the highest quality training and professional development courses to business and industry coupled with access to training grants for new and expanding businesses.