Susan Collins: “These grants will be awarded on a competitive basis by the Health Resources and Services Administration to community…”

“These grants will be awarded on a competitive basis by the Health Resources and Services Administration to community partnerships in rural areas that are composed of local emergency response entities, such as community training facilities, local emergency responders, fire and rescue departments, police, community hospitals, and local non-profit entities and for-profit entities concerned about cardiac arrest survival rates. Our amendment will provide $4 million through the Health Resources and Services Administration for the awarding of grants to community partnerships in rural areas to purchase automated external defibrillators and to train individuals in basic cardiac life support. These rural partnerships will also be required to evaluate the local community emergency response times to assess whether they meet the standards established by national public health organizations such as the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross.”