Franciscan Health Hosting Stop the Bleed Classes This Year in Greenwood
Franciscan Health will be hosting four separate Stop the Bleed classes throughout the year at the Franciscan Health Education Center in Greenwood. Each scheduled class will run from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The first class will take place on Wednesday, March 4, followed by classes on Tuesday, May 19, Thursday, Aug. 6 and Monday, Oct. 12.
Stop the Bleed teaches the skills needed to provide immediate bleeding control principles and aid until first responders arrive. The class provides a combination of lectures and hands-on training. It is meant to empower and equip the non-medical bystander in the critical first minutes after a trauma injury that causes bleeding, while they wait for first responders to arrive.
Each participant receives professional training on blood loss techniques, information on how to obtain a bleeding control kit and the opportunity to listen to an informative lecture by an expert in the field.
Instructors use training materials specially developed to teach bleeding control techniques. Along with instructing, they will be available to check movements as learners practice three different bleeding control actions.
Participants completing the hands-on skills validation will receive a certificate of completion.
Register here for the March 4 Stop the Bleed class.
Register here for the May 19 Stop the Bleed class.
Register here for the Aug. 6 Stop the Bleed class.
Register here for the Oct. 12 Stop the Bleed class.
The Franciscan Health Education Center is located at 421 North Emerson Avenue in Greenwood.
For more information on Stop the Bleed Classes, visit FranciscanHealth.org/Events.