Mount Vernon Community School will be recognized this week for being one of the first jurisdictions in Northern Virginia to implement a sudden cardiac arrest emergency plan.
On Wednesday, a banner will be unfurled at MVCS recognizing it as a Project ADAM (Automated Defibrillation in Adam’s Memory) Heart Safe School. Starting on July 1, all elementary and secondary schools in Virginia must have emergency cardiac response plans, per legislation from the general assembly. Eventually all ACPS elementary and secondary schools will have the designation, will have training and equipment at the ready in the event of a sudden cardiac emergency.
Project ADAM Medical Director Dr. John R. Phillips will present MVCS with the banner on Wednesday, and will be joined by Superintendent Melanie Kay-Wyatt, MVCS Principal Jennifer Hamilton and ACPS Director of School Health Services Holly Jackson…