The Springfield Safe Community Coalition recently honored CoxHealth for contributing to the greater well being of the community by providing basic and advanced life-support training to thousands of people each year. The CoxHealth Educational Services Training Center earned an honorable mention for the 2010 Springfield Safe Community and Injury Prevention Awards. The awards recognize individuals, businesses, or organizations that promote or carry out valuable community safety and injury prevention programs in Springfield.
Springfield is one of only eight designated Safe Communities in the United States. Safe Communities and the awards are a project of the World Health Organization and the winners are selected by a an international panel of judges including representatives from the USA, Australia, Sweden and New Zealand.
Since 1997, the Training Center has provided American Heart Association programming and support to instructors and community members in basic and advanced adult and pediatric life support training courses. In 2009, the CoxHealth Training Center instructors trained 10,821 members of the community as a way to reduce adult, child and infant death and disability from cardiac arrest, stroke and choking. The center has consistently trained 7000-8000 people each year for the past 13 years.
Amos Hale (center, above), a CPR instructor with the center and son of Educational Services clinical educator Cheryl Blevins, was honored as a winner in the Outstanding Youth category of the awards. Hale, now 19, has been an instructor with the center since he was 16 years old.
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