Last October, Tates Creek High School became the first high school in Fayette County to be certified heart safe by the Kentucky Children's Hospital.

A heart safe school indicates that school staff is prepared to respond to a cardiac emergency through drills, education and placement of aides within the school.

That's an automated external defibrillator.

This morning, Mayor Linda Gorton attended an emergency drill at Frederick Douglass High School.

The final high school in the county to be certified.

Mayor Gordon celebrated the designation with school staff and UK health care workers and shared her personal experience with cardiac emergencies.

More in tonight's look at medical news.

This is a drill Cumberland Emergency Response Team.

There is a code red in the Carter G. Woodson hallway.

We never know has human beings on who will have a sudden cardiac emergency.

We never know.

It can happen at home and school, out in public.

And the more people who are trained to understand what to do, the better.

Automatic defibrillator.

I think there's a lot of pride with this school team.

You know, they were intense about their response and everybody knew what they were supposed to do.

And when the delivery shot.

Now press the orange button.

Now.

Shock delivery for the parents who send their children to the school every day.

And for the teachers and the administrators, it's really a great thing to know that you have a school that understands how to do this.

When they find a child or a teacher with a cardiac emergency.

My daughter, who's into her mid-forties when she was three years old, unbeknownst to us, she had kind of wandered into the living room and she had a full blown cardiac arrest and was not breathing.

She had had a seizure due to a high fever, which we learned later.

And so I'm a registered nurse and I was trained in what to do.

So it kind of kept in automatically.

And I performed the cardiac emergency on her and it you know, it changes your life.

And you understand people need to know how to do this.

I'm so proud of this UK team.

They have set a goal to go and do all the schools.

So they started with the high schools.

Next, they're going to move on to the middle schools and then eventually the elementary schools.

So this is a wonderful goal.

Mayor Gordon also issued a proclamation that June 3rd is Project Atom Day Project that provides cardiac emergency programing to schools across the country, including Fayette County.

The project honors the memory of Adam Lemo, a 17 year old who passed from a cardiac event while playing basketball at school.