The French Hospital Medical Center Foundation is pleased to announce that a $50,000 grant from Pacific Gas and Electric Company will help equip a CPR training classroom in the Copeland Health Education Pavilion at French Hospital Medical Center with the most advanced medical equipment and technology. These resources in the new CPR training classroom will enable French Hospital Medical Center educators to provide superior training and education to medical and emergency personnel.
In recognition of the grant from PG&E, this advanced classroom will be named the Pacific Gas and Electric CPR Training Classroom. This specialty classroom will be available for advanced training for nurses, physicians, emergency services technicians, and other medical personnel. Among the advanced training tools in the Pacific Gas and Electric CPR Training Classroom are four voice-assisted manikins, which provide feedback on ventilations and chest compressions via a computer that is attached to the manikins. These manikins provide a realistic patient experience for health care provider training.
In addition to the Pacific Gas and Electric CPR Training Classroom, the $50,000 grant from PG&E will also help support a separate classroom in the Copeland Health Education Pavilion for use by the local American Red Cross, free of charge, for CPR classes offered to the community. French Hospital Medical Center also plans to work collaboratively with other organizations in the community to provide emergency preparedness training in the Pavilion.
Furthermore, French Hospital Medical Center will partner with the American Red Cross and the Sheriff’s Task Force on Public Safety to enhance these organizations’ professional education and community outreach efforts.
French Hospital Medical Center welcomes all opportunities to provide classes to schools, local youth groups, and volunteer service groups, as well.
“We are grateful to PG&E for this generous grant that will allow us to provide our health care providers access to a training classroom equipped with the most advanced medical equipment and technology,” French Hospital Medical Center President and CEO Alan Iftiniuk said. “This funding will also greatly expand our capacity to educate the community at large on emergency preparedness and disaster training.”
“It is an honor for us to support the team of local professionals at French Hospital in helping save lives,” PG&E Senior Vice President, Generation and Chief Nuclear Officer Ed Halpin said. “The health and safety of our communities is always PG&E’s highest priority. The new advanced CPR training classroom will ensure our local community members and first responders have the resources available to heighten their levels of emergency preparedness throughout the county. The classroom is yet another great example of what we as a community are doing to make sure San Luis Obispo County is the most prepared county in the nation.”