I needed to get CPR certified. The main choices are typically either the American Red Cross (ARC) or the American Heart Association (AHA). Both are good choices, if you're doing it for the certification, it's my understanding that the AHA is a 2 year certificate where the ARC is only 1 year.
The AHA offers a unique online certification process where you complete the "classroom" portion on your own and then simply find a testing center to complete a skills assessment. There is a cost associated with both parts, but I'm told it's pretty inexpensive. The online portion was $19.95. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a local testing center that was scheduled to do the skills assessments.
The AHA site wasn't very helpful in finding me any upcoming (and local) testing sessions within the next 2 weeks (I'm a procrastinator, what can I say?). And the ARC's next session is on a Tuesday, during the day. I ended up doing a quick Google search for "CPR" against the Howard County General Hospital site. The search returned a result for an already passed event. I poked around the HoCo hospital site a bit and came across the next schedule classes.
The HoCo hospital offers CPR classes 2 times per month. I called and the cost is only $48! This is at least $12 less than any other equivalent AHA class and $7 less than the ARC class that I took last year. I'm very excited to be taking the class - while it's a job requirement, I feel better knowing what to do in case of an emergency.
Find time, take the class and be prepared to help save a life one day!
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