American Heart Association Programs
Through the Public Safety Institute (PSI), CCAC is a certified CTC (Community Training Center), where instructors can align. In addition, PSI offers American Heart Association training. All classes are taught by certified instructors, who are trained in current techniques, and include practice on manikins. Any of these classes can be scheduled for an individual or an organization.
Heartsaver CPR/AED (For Non-Health-care Providers)
This CPR course teaches non-health-care providers how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies requiring CPR and how to properly use an AED or automated external defibrillator. Students also learn to treat choking and to recognize the warning signs of heart attack and stroke in adults and breathing difficulties in children. Courses are available for adult, child and/or infant patients.
RegisterHeartsaver First-Aid
The First Aid course offers basic support for medical emergencies, including burns, heart attacks, strokes, seizures, wounds, fractures, sprains and environmental emergencies.
RegisterBasic Life Support Provider
This course is designed for prehospital or hospital health care personnel and is usually the required credential for health care professionals. It covers use of the automatic external defibrillator (AED); cardiopulmonary resuscitation on adults, children and infants; choking and foreign body airway obstruction; and dealing with heart attacks, chest pain and cardiac arrest. Students must successfully complete practical skills testing and a written exam.
RegisterBasic Life Support Instructor
This course is designed for those current in American Heart Association Provider CPR who wish to become instructors. Students must have a current health care provider card.
RegisterHeartCode ACLS
HeartCode ACLS is the blended learning delivery method for the AHA ACLS course. Blended learning is a combination of e-learning and hands-on practice. The student completes part of the course in a self-directed, comprehensive e-learning environment that uses e-simulation technology to allow students to assess and treat patients in virtual health care settings.
RegisterAdvanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
This ACLS course highlights the standards and guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care as outlined by the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American College of Cardiology.
RegisterACLS Update Course (Recertification)
ACLS Update is an advanced instructor-led classroom course that highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate postcardiac arrest care. It also covers airway management and related pharmacology. In this course, skills are taught in large group sessions and small group learning and testing stations, where case-based scenarios are presented.
RegisterPediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
This course is designed for those current in American Heart Association Provider CPR who wish to become instructors. Students must have a current health care provider card.
RegisterPediatric Advanced Life Support Renewal
This 8.5-hour recertification course is designed to update the participant's skills and knowledge of Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider under direct instructor supervision. This course is limited to persons who have previously completed the full PAL provider course and desire to recertify their competency. BOOK REQUIRED: American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
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