On January 11, 2003, Judy Schneider, a 43 year old chemistry professor at SUNY Oswego, was saved by an AED at Webster High School in Rochester after she collapsed while she was watching her daughter compete in a swim meet. On March 13, 2003, Dexter Grady, a 37 year old custodian for East Hampton Middle School, went into cardiac arrest while playing basketball during his dinner break at the school. The teachers he was playing with saved him with the school’s AED.

Eileen Calamusa, a 48 year old mother of four, was saved by an AED on May 10, 2003 after she went into cardiac arrest at her son’s baseball game in Glen Cove. On December 3, 2003 Ted Radley suffered sudden cardiac arrest during a town meeting at a recreation center in Whitestown, NY. He was saved by an AED brought to the recreation center by the Notre Dame High School hockey team that had just happened to be playing a game there that night.

These lives that were saved are a testament to the tireless effort of the Acompora’s and the tremendous progress they have made as leaders of the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation over the past six years. The immediate impact of “Louis’ Law” has spread awareness to other potentially at-risk communities including police and fire departments, senior centers, work places, airlines, casinos and other large venues. People now realize that cardiac emergencies can occur anywhere at anytime. The Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation is committed to seeing Public Access Defibrillation become commonplace in the community.