Federal Rural AED Recipient list on ORCA website

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The Office of Rural Community Affairs would like to inform everyone

that the award recipient list for the 2003-2004 Federal Rural Access

to Emergency Devices Grant Program (Rural AED Grant) is now posted on

the ORCA website at www.orca.state.tx.us under NEWS ITEMS.

HRSA awarded $11.6 million in grants to help rural communities buy

automated external defibrillators, which have the ability to save the

lives of people suffering heart attacks. ORCA received an award of

$244,110 for the state of Texas. We received initially around 4,000

individual AED unit requests. At the time of the application deadline

ORCA received 800 applications requesting just shy of 1800 AED units.

The funding from HRSA provided funding for 122 AED's, with 71 of the

awarded organizations receiving funding for CPR/AED training.

All 122 AED awarded organizations were in eligible rural/frontier

counties as well as some being in HRSA designated eligible zip codes

in urban counties.

Please visit the ORCA website for information on emergency services

districts, as well as other rural programs and grants.

Alan M. , A.A.S.,L.P./VFF

Rural Health/Emergency Services Specialist

Office of Rural Community Affairs

P.O.Box 12877

Austin, TX, 78711

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