American Heart Association

With the American Heart Association, Policy Strategists, LLC secured the authorization of $2.7 million dollars in funding for the purchase and distribution of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be used by first responders in every city and town in Massachusetts. The Romney administration immediately prioritized this authorization, and within six months of taking office, conducted a bulk purchase and distribution of AEDs across the state, saving three lives in the first month alone. Decreasing the time of response for cardiac victims and providing access to AEDs directly increases the chance of survival. This was the largest state appropriation of money of this kind in the country.