February is American Heart Month

February is the perfect time to focus on your heart health as American Heart Month is celebrated.  Make a pledge to improve your personal habits that lead to a healthy heart and a better quality of life.  The American Heart Association offers lots of tips on nutrition, exercise and stress management.  Then take an EmergyCare CPR class so you can be prepared to help a friend, loved one or perfect stranger in a cardiac emergency.  Monthly CPR classes are open to the public and provide valuable skills that can mean the difference between life and death in a heart emergency.  Skills covered include CPR for children and adults, choking, and the use of AEDs (automated external defibrillators).  AEDs are self-contained units prominently mounted in many schools, churches, shopping centers and other public buildings.  The easy to use device provides voice prompts for a by-stander to deliver shocks to someone in cardiac distress.  Sign up today!