Wear Red for Women donates AED to Pettis County Clerk’s Office

August 6, 2024

Wear Red for Women, a Bothwell Foundation committee, recently gave an automated external defibrillator (AED) to the Pettis County Clerk’s Office. 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 350,000 people experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States each year. Immediate CPR and use of an AED can double, or even triple, survival rates.

Funds to purchase the device was 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.

Wear Red for Women presenting an AED in front of the Pettis County Clerk's office — The Pettis County Clerk’s Office received an automated external defibrillator, from left Dianne Simon; Thompson Hills Investment Corporation vice president and committee co-chair; Robin Balke, committee member; Sherry Jo Painter-Torres, Pettis County deputy clerk; Nick La Strada, Pettis County clerk; Lori Wightman, Bothwell Regional Health Center CEO and committee co-chair; and Eddie Crouch, committee member.

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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