HEARTSAFE WORKPLACE

The American Heart Association’s Wallingford facility was honored during a recent ceremony by the Connecticut Department of Public Health as the state’s first HEARTSafe Workplace. Pictured, from left to right, are: Gary St. Amand, from the state agency; American Heart Association’s Kristin DeCapua, director of business operations; Lorene Highbridge, state health alliances director; and Terry Rogers, emergency cardiovascular care manager. The agency established the HEARTSafe Workplace program to promote and recognize the efforts of workplaces to provide improved cardiac response and care to its employees and visitors.