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Safety & Injury Prevention
The FMH Wellness Center offers a variety of First Aid and CPR classes. Our complete line of CPR courses is taught by certified American Heart Association instructors. All classes use "watch and practice" videos that make learning easy and enjoyable. Each class emphasizes "hands-on" skills, practicing with manikins. Upon course completion, students are prepared to administer CPR to victims of sudden cardiac arrest or choking.
Our Basic First Aid Training is designed for lay people. It teaches participants how to deal with an injury or medical emergency while awaiting professional rescuers. The program satisfies both insurance and governmental requirements for business and industry.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Classes
 Healthcare Provider CPR
This course is designed for participants who work in a healthcare setting and are required to take a healthcare provider course for their employment. Skills covered include:
- CPR for victims of all ages
- CPR single rescuer and 2-person rescuer
- ventilation with a barrier device, bag-valve mask device, and oxygen
- use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- relief of foreign body airway obstruction
- additional special situations
- care of heart attack and stroke
Course completion card is issued for all participants who successfully complete the written examination and skills demonstration. The fee for this 8 hour course is $65.00.
Healthcare Provider CPR Refresher
This course is designed to upgrade the current Healthcare Provider to the new 2010 AHA guidelines. Participants must bring current CPR card which must not be more than 1 month past the recommended renewal date. The allotted time for this class is 6 hours, and the fee is $55.00.
(Six hours is allotted to allow enough practice for participants. If participants complete skills demonstration and the written exam in less than the allotted time, the class will end earlier.)
CPR for Family and Friends
This class is designed for all lay rescuers, such as school children, family members of patients at risk for sudden cardiac death, and other laypersons who want to learn rescue skills for loved ones but are not required to have course certification for their job. The course includes:
- CPR for adults, children 1-8 and infants
- how to relieve a victim who is choking
- introduction to the Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
This 4 hour course costs $42.00.
Heartsaver First Aid and AED (Course includes Adult CPR)
This course is designed for the layperson and first responders. The first aid portion includes:
- first aid basics
- medical emergencies
- injury emergencies
- environmental emergencies
The CPR portion presents:
- basic techniques of Adult CPR
- use of barrier devices during rescue breathing
- use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Participants who successfully complete the course knowledge and skills evaluations are eligible to receive a course completion card. The fee for this 8 hour class is $65.00.
Heartsaver AED (Course includes Adult CPR)
This course is designed for the layperson and first responders and presents:
- basic techniques of Adult CPR
- use of barrier devices during rescue breathing
- use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- use of first aid for choking
Participants who successfully complete the course knowledge and skills evaluations are eligible to receive a course completion card. The fee for this 4 hour class is $55.00.
Heartsaver CPR and AED
This course is designed for the layperson and first responders.
The CPR portion presents:
- basic techniques of Child (ages 1-puberty) and Infant CPR
- use of barrier devices when giving rescue breaths
- use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- care of a victim who is choking
Participants who successfully complete the course knowledge and skills evaluations are eligible to receive a course completion card. The fee for this 3.5-hour class is $55.00.
Read through our CPR Classes brochure learn more about the above classes, or you can call 240-379-6000.
Child Passenger Safety
Field experience at various safety seat inspections shows that nine out of ten safety seats are not being used or installed correctly. Is yours?
Child safety seats are very effective when installed and used correctly, but in Maryland it is estimated that the misuse rate is approximately 90%! FMH Wellness Center's Safety and Injury Prevention Program helps to reduce the number of needless injuries and deaths by educating the public on child passenger safety.
KISS (Kids In Safety Seats)
Maryland Kids in Safety Seats (KISS) is a state-wide, non-profit program funded through federal and state grants with a mission to reduce injuries and death among Maryland's children by helping people to obtain and use child restraints (car seats and booster seats) correctly each time a child rides in a motor vehicle. The FMH Wellness Center is a designated site offering the following services:
- Help in selecting the right type of car seat for your child
- Answers to your car seat questions
- Low cost rental of a car seat/booster seat for short or extended term
- Child safety restraints for some special needs children
- Information on where and how to get a car seat inspected
- Trainings for your community group
- Answers to questions about Maryland's child passenger safety laws and safe transportation recommendations
Call The FMH Wellness Center at: 240-379-6003 to have your questions answered.
Safe Kids Frederick County (SKFC)
Safe Kids Frederick County (SKFC) is a non-profit organization affiliated with Safe Kids U.S.A. and Safe Kids Worldwide. Our mission is to prevent unintentional injuries to children ages 14 and under through a coordinated program of public awareness, education, legislative action, enforcement, and access to low cost safety products. SKFC is co-coordinated by the injury prevention coordinators at FMH Wellness Center and the Frederick County Health Department and made up of volunteers and members from the following Frederick County agencies and organizations:
The coalition meets monthly on the second Thursday of the month at 9:30 am at various member locations except August and December. To learn more about the coalition, attend a meeting or to join our injury prevention forces contact The Wellness Center at 240-379-6010.
Safe Kids Frederick County Services
Injury Prevention Resources
Coalition members are available to provide classes and presentations about injury prevention to community groups on the following topics:
- ATV safety
- Bicycle & helmet safety
- Child passenger safety
- Fire & burn safety
- Home safety
- Pedestrian safety
- Water safety
- Playground Safety
- Poison Safety
- Sports Safety
To schedule a program contact The Wellness Center at 240-379-6010
Car Seat Grant Program
The FMH Wellness Center is a SAFE KIDS Coalition outlet for child safety seats and booster seats to families with financial difficulties. To qualify for the program clients must be referred by some public and/or private agency such as: the Frederick County Health Department, Frederick County Department of Social Services, Frederick County Public Schools, Head Start, Family Partnership, Healthy Families, Up County Family Center, or the Crisis Pregnancy Center. Families are qualified if they are receiving WIC, food stamps, or Medical Assistance.
To learn more about the program contact The Wellness Center at 240-379-6010
Community Child Safety Seat Checkpoints
Safe Kids Frederick County and the Frederick County Division of Fire & Rescue Services offers child safety seat checks free of charge, quarterly at different fire departments throughout Frederick County. The car seat checks usually take about 30 minutes per car seat and the checks are performed on a first come first served basis. To get information about the location of the checkpoints call the Frederick County Child Passenger Safety Hotline at 301-600-SEAT or the FMH Wellness Center: 240-379-6000.
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