Our Training Center is a fully accredited American Heart Association Training Center and offers all of the American Heart courses listed below. In addition, our training staff is willing to provide customized sessions to meet your needs.
Course cost includes all necessary books and equipment.
Contact us at HuntersTraining@hhchealth.org or (203) 514-5142 to schedule one of these courses for your organization.
Click here for BLS Heartcode registration- The online AHA BLS Course (NOTE- This includes both the online and the skills)
Click here for BLS Heartcode Skills only registration (NOTE- You must already have the Heartcode online completed)
Basic Life Support
The BLS Course teaches CPR skills for helping victims of all ages (including doing ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device, and oxygen); use of an automated external defibrillator (AED); and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (FBAO). It’s intended for participants who provide health care to patients in a wide variety of settings, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Healthcare providers, such as physicians, nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, physician’s assistants, residents or fellow, or medical or nursing students in training, healthcare aides, medical or nursing assistants, police officers, firefighters and other allied health personnel.
COURSE COST: $80.00
COURSE LENGTH: 3 Hours
BLS/CPR Instructor Course (Online)
ACLS & PALS Update
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
This is for providers that hold a current ACLS & PALS card and need recertification in both
This class is held on the same day back-to-back
Course Cost: $350- Includes Books and completion card
Pediatric Emergency Assessment Recognition & stabilization (PEARS)
Pediatric Advanced Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS®) teaches providers who infrequently deal with pediatrics how to use a systematic approach to quickly assess, recognize the cause, and stabilize a pediatric patient in an emergency situation.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
This 6-hour course is intended for any health care provider who would like to enhance their knowledge of the pediatric course curriculum; Any health care provider who needs to be able to recognize a pediatric patient with a potentially life-threatening condition & enlist the help of advance providers.
Course Cost: $175.00
TBD
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
This advanced course highlights the importance of high-performance team dynamics and communication, systems of care, recognition and intervention of cardiopulmonary arrest, immediate post-cardiac arrest, acute dysrhythmia, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).
Provider Course (16 hour initial)
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
This is for providers who don't currently hold a valid ACLS card.
Course Cost: $250.00
Contact us at 203-514-5152 or HuntersTraining@hhchealth.org
Update Course (8-hour Recertification)
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
This is for providers that hold a current ACLS and need recertification
Course Cost: $185.00
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)-Update course
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Healthcare providers who provide advanced level care to pediatric patients. Topics include cardiac care, respiratory emergencies and shock.
Course Cost: $185.00
Heartsaver® CPR/AED
The Heartsaver® CPR Course is a modular course that teaches lay rescuers how to recognize life-threatening emergencies, including cardiac arrest and choking for adult, child and infant victims. Students also learn to recognize the warning signs of a heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
All lay rescuers, such as employees in the workplace, day care employees, babysitters, airline personnel, security guards, family members of patients at high risk for sudden cardiac death, other lay rescuers, and those who may have a need to respond to an emergency.
COURSE COST: $70.00
COURSE LENGTH: 3 hours; 2 hours without Infant CPR
Heartsaver® First Aid
The Heartsaver® First Aid Course provides the skills to effectively assess and maintain life from the critical minutes immediately following an emergency until the arrival of emergency medical services personnel. Course content includes General Principles, Medical Emergencies and Injury Emergencies. Optional topics include CPR and AED, and Environmental Emergencies.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Persons assigned to respond to emergencies in the workplace or community as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR and AED skills. Some rescuers are required to take this course as part of their employer’s efforts to comply with OSHA regulations, e.g., corporate employees, security guards, airline personnel and lifeguards.
COURSE COST - BASIC FIRST AID: $70.00
COURSE COST W/CPR AED: $100.00
COURSE LENGTH: 7.5 hours; 6.5 hours without Infant CPR; 3.5 hours with First Aid only.
The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in BLS, ACLS, and PALS and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association, and any fees charged for such a course do not represent income to the Association.
Contact us for class information- 203-514-5181 or HuntersTraining@hhchealth.org