Infant CPR Anytime Kits Donated To Kentucky Children’s Hospital [Video]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Expectant parents at Kentucky Children’s Hospital will soon have access to a lifesaving resource: special infant CPR kits.

It’s all because of a gift from the Tempur Sealy Foundation.

UK Pediatric Cardiology nurse Gloria Okorley and other medical experts at Kentucky Children’s Hospital want to make sure new parents know how to do infant CPR because it could save their baby’s life.

Officials with the American Heart Association of Central and Eastern Kentucky say across the US, more than 23,000 go into cardiac arrest yearly.

Sadly, seven thousand of those babies don’t make it.

So, the AHA teamed up with the Tempur Sealy Foundation for a special donation to Kentucky Children’s Hospital.

“This gift today of 25,000 dollars will go towards the purchase of 500 infant CPR Anytime training kits provided by the American Heart Association,” said Scott Vallet with Tempur Sealy. “It will go towards parents and families to prepare for an unthinkable …