Members of Wear Red for Women, a Bothwell Foundation committee, recently presented an automated external defibrillator (AED) to be placed at Lake Creek Methodist Church, located ten miles south of Smithton. An AED is a small, lightweight device that allows individuals and first responders to treat sudden cardiac arrest. The machine analyzes the heart rhyhm and when needed delivers an electrical shock to the heart to restore normal rhythm.

Funds to purchase the device were raised during the 2022 Wear Red for Women luncheon and auction. The committee’s goal is to have AED’s in every place people work, learn or pray in Sedalia and Pettis County. Since the inception of the luncheon event in 2020, 47 AED’s have been placed in or committed to various locations. The 2023 Wear Red for Women event is scheduled for Friday, February 24, 2023.

Photo courtesy of Bothwell Regional Health Center