The city of Rochester and Monroe County have launched an initiative aimed at preparing residents to respond when someone goes into sudden cardiac arrest.
Through the HEARTSafe Rochester initiative, the city and county will pursue a goal of training 15% of the county’s population — that’s around 113,000 people — to perform CPR and use an automated external defibrillator, or AED.
“This is a mission for our entire community,” Mayor Malik Evans said in a statement. “We will work block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, school by school, faith community by faith community to reach those 113,000 people. Everyone has the power to save a life. I believe Rochester can do big things. But we have got to do it together.”…