Training Programs Open to the Public
At FHN, our goal is to be here for you and your family when you need us the most. Most often, that's when you or a family member is ill or physically injured. However, we also strive to make a difference by working toward prevention of these illnesses and injuries.
We hold many support groups, health screenings, trainings, programs, and courses in order to help make our homes, workplaces, and communities a safer place. We’re proud to offer education to individual community members AND local businesses. Click on a program below to learn more about the course content, upcoming sessions, and requirements to register.
Please contact us at 815-599-6707 or coil@fhn.org if you have any questions.
This course is designed to teach community members how to perform high-quality CPR, first aid, and proper AED (Automated External Defibrillator) use specific to infants and children.
The course will enable participants to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED based on the AHA (American Heart Association) guidelines. This is a hands-on learning program to maximize learning for participants.
Course Content:
- High-quality CPR for children and infants
- First Aid Basics
- Controlling bleeding & bandaging
- Burns & electrical related injuries
- Allergic reactions
- Heat or cold-related injuries
- Poison emergencies
- Fractures and sprains
- Use of an AED
- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults, children, and infants
This full-day course is $60, which includes the Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Student Workbook and CPR certification card that is valid for 2 years.
Dates, times, and registration information.
All courses will be held at FHN Memorial Hospital, 1045 W. Stephenson Street, Freeport, IL, lower level in the Globe/Deaconess Room.
BLS (Basic Life Support) skills are applicable to any healthcare setting. This course is designed to teach healthcare professionals how to perform high-quality CPR individually or as part of a team.
BLS (Basic Life Support) skills are applicable to any healthcare setting. This course will enable participants to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) based on the AHA (American Heart Association) guidelines. This is a hands-on learning program to maximize learning for participants.
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
This half-day course is $40, which includes the BLS Provider Manual (contains BLS reference card) and BLS certification card that is valid for 2 years. It is for healthcare professionals only.
Dates, times, and registration information.
All courses will be held at FHN Memorial Hospital, 1045 W. Stephenson Street, Freeport, IL, lower level in the Globe/Deaconess Room.
This is a nationally recognized program designed to teach non-medical people, the everyday members of the community, the importance of stopping hemorrhage.
The multiple public tragedies that have occurred in the past few years throughout the U.S. have motivated the Hartford Consensus to bring together leaders from law enforcement, the federal government, and the medical community to improve survival rates from manmade or natural mass casualty events. This inspired us to take part in the cause.
"Stop the Bleed" is a nationally recognized program designed to teach non-medical people, the everyday members of the community, the importance of stopping hemorrhage. In addition, it teaches the skills necessary to control and if possible, stop bleeding in people with traumatic injuries.
The goal of this training is to provide an immediate response to bleeding when trained responders or a first aid kit is not available. There are numerous reasons why everyone at any organization should make a priority to learn this type of training: Mass shootings, work injuries, home injuries, bombings, natural mass casualty events, motor vehicle accidents, etc.
Course Content:
- A step-by-step process when an immediate response to bleeding is required
- High-quality tourniquet training
- Hands-on bleeding control training
- A Stop the Bleed kit that includes a tourniquet, bleeding control supplies, gloves, and instructions
This 2-hour course is $25, which includes the Stop the Bleed kit.
Dates, times, and registration information.
All courses will be held at FHN Memorial Hospital, 1045 W. Stephenson Street, Freeport, IL, lower level in the Globe/Deaconess Room.
This course is designed for anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency. This course teaches the critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrive.
Skills covered in this course include first aid; choking relief in adults, children, and infants; and what to do for sudden cardiac arrests in adults, children and infants based on the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines. This is a hands-on learning program to maximize learning for participants.
Course Content:
- First aid basics
- Medical emergencies
- Injury emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
- Preventing illness and injury
- Adult CPR and AED use
- Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
- Child CPR and AED use
- Infant CPR
This full-day course is $60, which includes the Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED (Automated External Defibrillator) student workbook and certification card valid for 2 years.
Dates, times, and registration information.
All courses will be held at FHN Memorial Hospital, 1045 W. Stephenson Street, Freeport, IL, lower level in the Globe/Deaconess Room.
