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PICTURED: An automated external defibrillator (AED) in a white box is an emergency defibrillator for people in cardiac arrest.
Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill into law this week.
July 23, 2024, Press Release from the Office of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine: (WORTHINGTON, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed House Bill 47 today during a ceremony at Worthington Kilbourne High School. The new law will require automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in every public and chartered nonpublic school in Ohio. According to the CDC, more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year in the United States. An estimated 70-90% of these people die before reaching the hospital. However, the American Heart Association reports that nine out of 10 cardiac arrest victims will live if they receive a shock from an AED in the first minute after an incident.
Tuesday, commissioners gave the go-ahead for the county Emergency Management Agency to order additional ‘Automated External Defibrillators’ better known as AEDs. The county currently has 13 located in buildings that they own and will be getting 28 additional to have located in common areas and offices. The hope is to never have to use them but if needed they are readily accessible and in plain sight.
Over $40,000 is coming from the J.E. Belch Charitable Trust and was used to purchase 32 of the AED devices. These will replace old devices and add new ones to enforcement cruisers at the sheriff's office and to every police department in Putnam County.
Officials at the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Parks District Office received a special gift Wednesday afternoon. Members from St. Rita's and the Heart Center donated five AED portable devices to the Parks District.
