American Heart Association:

CPR & Advanced Life Support Courses

Bystander & BLS Provider CPR Course Proposals: Fall 2024

Negotiations to ratify the partnership with the Marin County Fire Department will reconvene the third week of January 2024, intending to integrate AHA CPR certification with our EMT and EMR courses. Over the next year, Fire Technology can begin training college programs and students, eventually becoming an umbrella agency, allowing CPR instructors affiliated with dental and nursing to certify their students through our Training Site. What’s more exciting is that COM will cater to fire departments, hospitals, ambulance agencies, and the people of Marin and surrounding counties.

This will be a perennial asset to Marin County and a step toward a safer, well-informed, better-prepared community. This is the kind of win-win benefit that we should be striving for at the college, as well as be very proud of when it accomplish it.

Comprehensive Collegiate Training Center

This Spring, we are pleased to announce that EMT and EMR students will receive official American Heart Association BLS Provider Cards after completing the CPR training module. This does not require any revisions to either course’s curricula; it will be provided to the students at the cost of the CPR card only and will be valid for two years. Being an official Training Site for not only Fire Technology but the entire college. A CPR card is necessary for nearly every career in medicine, which means COM can now provide Nursing, Medical Assisting, Dental Assisting, Public Safety, and any adjacent field of patient care or rapid response.

AHA accreditation allows us to train everyone, and provide more than CPR training to the public. Once COM’s Training Site is operational, anyone will be able to take a number of EMS-required training courses, such as Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).

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