Wear Red for Women donates AED to Heard Memorial Club House

December 16, 2024

Wear Red for Women, a Bothwell Foundation committee, recently gave an automated external defibrillator (AED) to Heard Memorial Club House. An AED is a small, lightweight device that allows individuals and first responders to treat sudden cardiac arrest. The machine automatically analyzes the heart rhythm and when appropriate, it delivers an electrical shock to the heart to restore its normal rhythm.

According to the American Heart Association, more than 15% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in a public location. Therefore public access to an AED and community training play a large role in early defibrillation.

Funds to purchase the device were raised during the 2024 Wear Red for Women luncheon and auction. The committee’s goal is to have AEDs in every place people work, learn, play or pray in Sedalia and Pettis County. Since the inception of the luncheon event in 2020, nearly 100 AEDs have been placed in or committed to various locations. The 2025 Wear Red for Women event is Feb. 28, 2025, and tickets will be available in January.

Heard Memorial Club House received an AED from the Bothwell Foundation’s Wear Red committee. Sorosis, a ladies cultural organization founded in 1889, and Helen G. Steele Music Club, established in 1893, hold meetings in the Heard House. Front row, from left to right, Sharon Sawford, RN, Bothwell Regional Health Center; Ashley Wooster and Connie McLaughlin, committee members; Dianne Simon, Thompson Hills Investment Corporation vice president and committee co-chair; Jeff Wimann, Heard House board trustee; Stacey Beard, Sorosis treasurer and Heard House board treasurer; Patricia Palmer, Heard House secretary; and Mary Wood, Sorosis president; back row, from left to right, Trish Henson and Terra Nelson, committee members; and Lori Wightman, Bothwell Regional Health Center CEO and committee co-chair.

Bothwell Regional Health Center is a regional health center serving west-central Missouri with state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive health and wellness services including primary care, specialty care and emergency care. For more information about Bothwell and its services, visit www.brhc.org or find us on Facebook.

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