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Where to Find CPR Classes

Looking for a CPR or BLS class?

Many organizations throughout Orange County offer classes. First, determine exactly which type of class you need to take, and then find a provider below. Always call first to verify class dates and times as these can change and the web site may not have been updated.

Key Terms:

CPR – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
AED – Automatic Electronic Defibrillator
BLS – Basic Life Support
AHA – American Heart Association

Class Descriptions:

ACLS (Certification)- Advanced Cardiac Life Support. Designed for healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiovascular emergencies, including personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units.

BLS Healthcare Providers (Certification) - Designed for the healthcare professional, course includes adult and pediatric CPR, relief of foreign body airway obstruction, and AED use.

CPR for Family & Friends (No certification) – For all lay rescuers; also appropriate for school children. This course includes rescue skills in CPR, the chain of survival, relief of foreign body airway obstruction, signs of a heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke, and choking. Also, pediatric emergent situations, signs of choking in infants and children, and prevention of the most common fatal injuries in children and infants.

First Aid (Certification) – This course includes skills to effectively assess and maintain life immediately following an emergency; First Aid, CPR and use of AED.

Heartsaver CPR (Certification) – This course includes information on first aid for choking, guidelines for adult, child and infant CPR, heart attack symptoms and recognition of a heart attack, stroke symptoms and recognition of a stroke.

PALS (Certification) - Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Designed for healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children, including personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care and critical care units such as physicians, nurses, paramedics and others who need a PALS course completion card for job or other requirements.

Class Providers:

SUNY OrAnge

The Physical Education, Exercise Studies, Health (Movement Science) Department offers 1-credit CPR classes. Refer to the SUNY Orange Spring-Summer 2013 Course Listings for dates and times.

Orange Regional Medical Center

Community Health Education Center
110 Crystal Run Road
Middletown, NY 10941
Offers American Heart Association BLS.
845-692-0075

ORMC CPR Classes

Bon Secours Charity Health System

Includes: Bon Secours Hospital, Port Jervis, NY; St. Anthony’s Hospital, Warwick, NY; Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY. Offers classes for health professionals and the community.

845-368-5000 x 6791

CPR classes at BSCHS

American Heart Association

American Heart Association CPR Classes

American Red Cross

American Red Cross CPR Classes

Blooming Grove Volunteer Ambulance Corps Training Center

Offers AHA BLS Healthcare Provider, AHA CPR for Family & Friends, AHA BLS Heartsaver, AHA Heartsaver First Aid Course, AHA Heartsaver AED, AHA CPR in Schools, AHA CPR Instructor

7 North Street
Washingtonville, N.Y. 10992

(845) 496-9281

BGVAC CPR Classes

email: bgvac@frontiernet.net

Keep on Pumping CPR Training Center

Offers CPR for the Professional Rescuer, AHA Healthcare Provider CPR, Community CPR and First Aid, Basic First Aid, Wilderness First Aid, and Child and Babysitting Safety Class

845-590-1378

845-534-5463

Keep on Pumping CPR Classes