Expert training across Penn Medicine
At Penn Medicine, we are committed to ensuring that everyone in our community knows how to live safely and respond to emergencies. Our experts provide training in the latest first aid techniques and life-saving skills, empowering you to protect yourself and your family. Here, you can learn about the CPR and first aid training programs we offer, though additional programs may be available at various locations across our health system.
Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital offers hands-only CPR classes. Hands-Only CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) or CPR without mouth-to-mouth breathing is an easy and effective technique to use when an adult collapses and encourages all bystanders, trained or untrained, to do something. Hands-Only CPR consists of three basic steps:
- Check and call
- Give chest compressions
- Do not stop!
The training also teaches you how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), a device that can help restart a person’s heart during sudden cardiac arrest.
Search for an upcoming class or contact the program team at 610-738-2300.
Penn Medicine offers various basic life support training courses, including courses designed by the American Heart Association (AHA).
- The AHA Heartsaver AED Course prepares a wide variety of people who, as first responders: may need to perform CPR in the workplace or similar settings, may need to use and automated external defibrillator, may need to help someone who is choking, and want or need a course completion card.
- The AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Course provides healthcare professionals with the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, use an automated external defibrillator, and relieve choking in a safe, timely and effective manner. The course is intended for certified or non-certified, licensed or non-licensed healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, physician’s assistants, residents or fellows, or medical or nursing students in training, aides, medical or nursing assistants, police officers, and other allied health personnel.
Learn more about these and other training programs we offer.
The Mobile CPR Project is a traveling training program created through a collaboration between the Travelers Foundation and the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Supported by the City of Philadelphia and other partners, including local hospitals as well as the Philadelphia fire and police departments, the program sends trained professionals to teach individuals how to recognize cardiac arrest, perform hands-only CPR effectively, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED).
To schedule a training, please contact Mobile CPR project coordinator, Nabil Abdulhay, at 215-746-4631 or themobilecprproject@uphs.upenn.edu.