Hill County becomes 'cardiac ready'

Hill County is ready to undertake an effort to become "cardiac ready."

That means people who suffer from cardiac arrest will be promptly treated by knowledgeable people with modern equipment and transported quickly to hospitals that can help them.

There will be a chain of treatment that will be better and faster than what area residents get now.

Janet Trethewey, the Havre city councilwoman who runs the statewide program for the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, said the goal is to vastly increase the number of people who survive a cardiac arrest.

Presently, she said, only...