In 2024, Kentucky’s General Assembly allocated funding to purchase Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), as found in HB 1. This funding increases the number of functional devices across the Commonwealth in case of cardiac arrest emergencies on school property.
The Kentucky AED Grant Award provides Webster County Schools with $16,000 to assist with purchasing eight new AED devices, one additional AED for each school campus, one for the maintenance building, and one floater device for the transportation department to use for field trips.
The eight awarded will supplement the more than 20 already placed in our facilities.