BLS Provider

American Heart Association “Basic Life Support” for Healthcare Providers

The BLS Provider Course trains participants who have a “duty to act” to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. Students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. The BLS Provider course is designed for healthcare professionals caring for patients in both prehospital and in-facility environments, such as hospitals, clinics, or other healthcare facilities including a dentist office or assisted-living facilities.

Students will complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam. Upon passing the examination and skills tests, students will receive an AHA BLS Healthcare Provider certification card that is valid for 2 years.

The BLS Provider course requires approximately 4 hours to complete, with time included for skills and written testing. This course costs $80 per student, and includes a student manual.

BLS Provider Course Content:

  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components

  • Use of an AED

  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device

  • Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR

  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

Our on-site CPR classes are taught at our headquarters on Sloan Street. The training room is on the second floor and is not ADA-accessible.

Please wear loose, comfortable clothing. You will be practicing skills that require kneeling, bending, standing, and lifting.

If you have any physical conditions that might prevent these activities, please inform one of the facilitators. The facilitator may be able to adjust the equipment to accommodate you.

Classes are open to anyone 12 years old and up. It is a serious classroom environment that teaches life-saving techniques and skills.