We always make the most of the time we have here. We always take advantage of the beautiful weather and beautiful scenery while here.

The area is beautiful and is well-kept throughout. It is a very private place that you can only get to by car. Rossi administered electric shock with the AED, and Delavalla helped perform chest compressions until she had a pulse.The Bascom Palmer Palm Beach Gardens is an incredible park located just south of Palm Beach, Florida. When she collapsed, Dann quickly retrieved the AED and called 911. Well-Timed Trainingĭelavalla and fellow co-worker Maria Dann, senior patient access representative, had just completed Bascom Palmer's CPR training about a week before the incident and they too were instrumental in helping Bento-Murray. When she saw that Bento-Murray had no pulse, Rossi immediately started CPR and called for help. Rossi said Bento-Murray then stood up, took a few steps, and collapsed. Tyler Delavalla, a fellow ophthalmology technician, and Kirsten Rossi, a LASIK coordinator, sat by her side for about an hour and took her blood pressure, which was unusually low. The team at Palm Beach Gardens has a close-knit, family-like working relationship so when Bento-Murray first exhibited light-headedness and blurred vision that morning, the team responded.

If I was home, it wouldn't have been the same.' I was the poster child for going to work. 'The planets were aligned,' said Bento-Murray, who credits being alive with going to work that day as well as co-workers trained in CPR and an automated electronic defibrillator (AED) on hand. From left, Kirsten Rossi, Janet Bento-Murray and Tyler Delavalla.Īnd it was that dedication that may well have saved the life of the 70-year-old ophthalmology technician at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute's Palm Beach Gardens location as on June 21 Bento-Murray lost consciousness due to a heart condition and had to be resuscitated by her co-workers. Janet Bento-Murray has always taken pride in not missing a day of work.

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