HERSHEY, Pa. — If performed immediately, CPR can greatly increase a person’s chance of survival – yet that happens less than 10 percent of the time when a heart-related emergency occurs outside of the hospital. As part of its continued efforts to add to the numbers of trained responders in the community, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center presented CPR in Schools Training Kits to representatives of 22 schools from across central Pennsylvania.
The training kits were provided free of charge to the school districts, due to funding from the Medical Center’s Resuscitation Sciences Training Center, Children’s Miracle Network, I.O. Silver Foundation and the Medical Center’s Community Relations Department.