AUSTIN, TX, April 22, 2026 - City Limits Subaru and Toyota of Cedar Park are making Austin a community of lifesavers by working with the American Heart Association to educate their team on Hands-Only CPR. Using springtime momentum through American Heart Month (February), this initiative will ensure that the 85 employees of Toyota of Cedar Park and 37 employees of City Limits Subaru will be able to perform Hands-Only CPR if a customer or staff member has a cardiac arrest.
"At City Limits Subaru and Toyota of Cedar Park, we believe being part of this community means showing up in ways that truly matter," said Rachelle Grossman, marketing & community relations director, Toyota of Cedar Park. "As automotive dealerships, safety is part of our everyday conversation.
Partnering with the American Heart Association to offer Hands-Only CPR and defibrillator trainings to our team is a natural extension of that commitment. It's vital that our employees are able to respond in an emergency.
City Limits Subaru and Toyota of Cedar Park partnered with the American Heart Association (AHA) to provide Hands-Only CPR training for their dealership staff.
The effort, promoted during the spring following American Heart Month, aims to increase readiness among employees to respond to out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrests occurring on dealership premises or in public-facing interactions.
The initiative targeted the workforce of two Austin-area automotive dealerships.
Toyota of Cedar Park enrolled 85 employees and City Limits Subaru enrolled 37 employees.
Training was delivered in conjunction with the AHA; the source does not specify the precise instructional format, duration per participant beyond reference to Hands-Only CPR, nor whether training included supervised practice, certification, or use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) beyond general mention of defibrillator trainings.
Reportedly, the dealerships worked with the AHA to educate staff in Hands-Only CPR.
The announcement frames this as part of a broader emphasis on safety in day‑to‑day operations and indicates that defibrillator training was offered alongside CPR education.
The AHA’s Nation of Lifesavers campaign is cited as the overarching programmatic context, and the AHA encourages a 90‑second introductory learning module available via its public website; the source does not state whether dealership employees completed that specific module.
The press release outlines the public health rationale for bystander CPR training.
It reiterates AHA statistics that more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital in the United States annually and notes that nearly 90% of those events are fatal without prompt intervention.
Immediate CPR is described as having the potential to double or triple survival chances, while bystander CPR rates are reported to be about 40%, with lack of confidence cited as a common barrier to intervention.
The source attributes these data and the AHA’s role as the scientific authority on CPR and emergency cardiovascular care guidelines in the U.S.
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A quoted statement from Rachelle Grossman, marketing and community relations director at Toyota of Cedar Park, frames the program as aligned with the dealerships’ safety priorities and community responsibilities.
Grossman describes instances in which team members experienced cardiac emergencies at work, positioning those events as motivating factors for ensuring staff preparedness.
The release emphasizes a desire for employees to feel confident stepping into critical moments.
The initiative is presented as a local implementation of the AHA’s Nation of Lifesavers objective to convert bystanders into prepared responders.
The AHA’s broader activities—public awareness, education, policy advocacy, research funding, and guideline stewardship—are summarized as organizational context.
The release invites the public to join the Nation of Lifesavers and references the AHA’s public resources and contact channels.
The source does not provide details on training metrics beyond numbers of employees targeted; it does not report pre‑ or post‑training competency assessments, retention intervals, rates of course completion, or whether any staff achieved formal certification.
The timing, instructors’ credentials, training frequency, or integration with on‑site emergency response protocols were not described.
No outcome data (for example, changes in bystander CPR rates at the dealerships or actual emergency responses) are reported.
Within the text, the dealerships portray employee CPR preparedness as an operational safety priority that could influence outcomes during workplace cardiac events.
The AHA frames the activity as consistent with its campaign to increase community readiness to respond to cardiac arrest.
The source implies that similar local business partnerships support creating safer communities, but does not present empirical evidence of program impact.