Through our commitment to wellness to the communities we serve, South Central Health’s Wishek Ambulance Service has organized Wishek into a Cardiac Ready Community. As a ND Department of Health project, a Cardiac Ready Community helps empower its residents to actively lower heart attack mortality rates by strategically placing lifesaving AED devices throughout the community, train citizens on the use of an AED as well as CPR procedures, and educate the community on heart attack warning signs. With more than a dozen AED devices placed in business, churches, schools and other places where people gather, Wishek is one of nine Cardiac Ready Communities in the state.