El Fondo de Beneficios de Salud Comunitarios distribuye DEA

Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation's $114,000 investment places life-saving devices throughout the community.
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7de octubre de 2025
Mike Welch y Dominique Welch, dos de los copropietarios de Backdoor Sports, instalan su gabinete DEA en Backdoors Sports el martes por la mañana. Foto: UCHealth.
Mike Welch, right, and Dominique Welch, two of the co-owners of Backdoor Sports, install their AED cabinet in Backdoor Sports on Oct. 7, 2025. Photo: UCHealth.

Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation, through its Community Health Benefit Fund, has invested $114,00 in automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, that are being deployed throughout the Yampa Valley.

“Every dollar of the Community Health Benefit Fund supports the health of our community, and this project is a perfect example of that fund in action,” said Karen Schneider, executive director of the foundation. “Through the deployment of these AEDs, faster intervention can begin when a sudden cardiac arrest occurs and while first responders are en route. It was heartwarming to learn not only of the desire to be prepared should a medical emergency arise, but of these organizations’ willingness to assist others.”

“Early use of an AED during a sudden cardiac arrest can more than double a person’s chance of survival, making it one of the most critical links in the chain of survival,” said Julie McFadden, registered nurse and manager of trauma services at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center. “In rural communities, ensuring access to AEDs and providing training in their use is a vital way we protect and care for one another, no matter where a cardiac emergency may occur.”

Los propietarios de Backdoor Sports querían un DEA porque saben que el dispositivo puede salvar vidas.

"Estamos en el negocio de la aventura. Tener un DEA en el lugar no es diferente a tomar una baliza de avalancha cuando te aventuras en el campo o cerciorarte de tener una cuerda para lanzar cuando estás en el río", dijo Mike Welch, copropietario de Backdoor Sports. "Con antecedentes de enfermedades cardíacas en mi familia, sé la importancia de tener FAE. La inversión de UCHealth en estos dispositivos hace de Steamboat Springs una comunidad más fuerte".

LiftUp Routt County aplicar un DEA para proporcionar un entorno más seguro para sus clientes, compradores, personal, voluntarios y donantes.

“We’re a community hub that assists people of all ages. We want to be ready if an emergency strikes, and we are so grateful to UCHealth for choosing to improve the safety of our community,” said Sue Fegelein, executive director of LiftUp. “This is an amazing investment. These AEDs will provide so many with the needed peace of mind and a plan of action in case of emergency.”

Bettina Scorzafava (right), Community Health Benefit Fund coordinator with Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation, provides an AED orientation to Mike Welch (left bottom) and Dominique Welch (middle left), two of the co-owners of Backdoor Sports, and Genevieve Redman (top left), general manager at Mythology Distillery, on Tuesday morning. Photo: UCHealth.
Bettina Scorzafava, right, Community Health Benefit Fund coordinator with Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation, provides an AED orientation to Mike Welch, bottom left, and Dominique Welch, far left, two of the co-owners of Backdoor Sports, and Genevieve Redman, top left, general manager at Mythology Distillery, on Tuesday morning. Photo: UCHealth.

Forty-nine AEDs are being deployed through this impact initiative. Recipients include:

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  • Deportes de puerta trasera
    Each recipient of an AED through Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation’s Community Health Benefit Fund receives the AED, portable carrying case, wall-mount cabinet, a response kit with necessary supplies and one-year of AED medical direction and program management through Cardio Partners. Photo: UCHealth.
    Each recipient of an AED through Yampa Valley Medical Center Foundation’s Community Health Benefit Fund receives the AED, portable carrying case, wall-mount cabinet, a response kit with necessary supplies and one year of AED medical direction and program management through Cardio Partners. Photo: UCHealth.
  • Gran Inés
  • Café Diva
  • Christy Sports – Central Park
  • Christy Sports - Góndola
  • Granja Elkstone
  • Elzo Rentals
  • Primera Iglesia Bautista
  • Centro Oftalmológico Helm
  • Fisioterapia de energía cinética
  • Levanta el condado de Routt
  • Montañas en movimiento
  • Destilería Mythology
  • Esquí y ciclismo de una atajada
  • Escuela y campamento de artes escénicas Perry-Mansfield
  • Servicio de reparación de precisión y ventas
  • Estudio caliente de Rakta
  • Reponer terapias intravenosas
  • Grupo de resorts / Resorts de montaña / Simply Steamboat / MR Realty
  • Grupo Resort – Château Chamonix
  • Grupo Resort – El Rancho
  • Grupo turístico – Trappeur's Crossing
  • Estudio de bienestar Revolve
  • Saddleback Ranch y Yee Haw Tubing Hill
  • Ski Haus
  • Fisioterapia en la ciudad de esquí
  • Compañías de balandra
  • Sabuesos
  • Barbería de barcos de vapor
  • Colectivo de escalada de barcos de vapor
  • Piloto de barco de vapor y hoy
  • Club de fútbol Steamboat
  • Steamboat Sotheby's International Realty
  • Cámara de Steamboat Springs
  • Club de deportes de invierno de Steamboat Springs
  • Sumovia Naturopathic Healthcare, Healing Path Acupuncture, Radiant Skin and Waxing Boutique, Elenz and Strom Law Firm
  • Equidad de sudor
  • TBH Plomería y calefacción, Inc.
  • El salón Timber Axe
  • Museo de la Huella de los Pioneros
  • Rancho del caballo de guerra
  • Banco del Valle de Yampa

Clark

  • Centro de Primera Infancia de North Routt Community Charter School
  • Puerto deportivo del lago Steamboat

Hayden

  • Centro de cuidado de Katina
  • Iglesia Bautista Misión de la Gracia

Craig

  • Barnes Outfitting, LLC
  • Clubes de Niños y Niñas del Noroeste de Colorado
  • Cuidado infantil Clever Cubs LLC

AED distribution is one of YVMCF’s 2025 impact initiatives. Other investments include partnerships with Reaching Everyone Preventing Suicide (REPS) to provide suicide education and training and Routt County Riders to improve bicycle safety outreach.

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Sobre el autor

Lindsey Reznicek is a communications specialist at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She has spent the last ten years working in marketing and communications in health care, an industry she never considered but one to which she's contributed through her work in media relations, executive messaging and internal communications. She considers it an honor to interact with patients and write about their experiences; it’s what keeps her coming back to work each day.

A native of Nebraska, Lindsey received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism, with a focus on public relations, from the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University – she bleeds purple.

She could see a Broadway musical every week, is a huge animal lover, enjoys a good shopping trip, and likes spending time in the kitchen. Lindsey and her husband have two daughters and enjoy hiking in the summer and skiing all winter long.