The Pulse Place Partnership Kit
The Pulse Place is the trusted step before the clinic — a clinician-led readiness platform for the Chicago Southland. It runs CPR/BLS training and partner-hosted readiness events in the rooms residents already trust, captures consented next steps, and follows through until each one is done.
Its business is to work with a small number of hosts, sponsors, employers, and licensed providers who serve the same communities. This document is the reference for those partnerships — what The Pulse Place does, who it reaches, and how partners plug in.
“The rooms already exist. The trust already exists. The demand already exists. The missing layer is coordination.”
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One coordination layer, seven working parts.
Trusted rooms
Fellowship halls, senior centers, classrooms, break rooms — the rooms the Southland already walks into.
CPR/BLS training
AHA courses on-site: BLS Provider, Heartsaver, First Aid, Pediatric.
Readiness events
CPR/AED awareness, blood pressure, falls prevention, caregiver readiness.
Consented opt-ins
People raise their hand in plain language. Nothing moves without consent.
Provider pathways
Routing built toward licensed providers as coordination takes shape.
Follow-up
Every event ends with named next steps — and a person who owns them.
Measurement
Registrations, opt-ins, completed next steps. Counted, reported, debriefed.
Four kinds of partners. One clear trade each.
Churches, senior centers, schools, associations.
A trusted room, an audience, calendar access, local legitimacy.
Programming, coordination, opt-in capture, follow-up.
Budget behind a measurable community or workforce goal.
Budget, a workforce or community priority, a measurable goal.
Event execution, reporting, readiness programming.
Licensed clinical care, ready for prepared residents.
Licensed clinical care, protocols, capacity, a specialty pathway.
Prepared residents, consented opt-ins, routing support — flat fee, set in advance. Never per-referral, never a share of revenue.
A team, a location, a deadline.
A team, a location, a deadline.
On-site CPR/BLS/AED/First Aid training with certification support where applicable.
No pilot theater. A pilot runs when the pieces are real — and repeats only when the results are.
A committed host.
A sponsor or budget source.
At least one provider, where applicable.
A clear event purpose.
Opt-in capture.
Follow-up until each next step is done.
Debrief with hosts and sponsors.
Repeat — only by results.
01 Registrations
02 Opt-ins captured
03 Booked next steps
04 Completed next steps
05 Sponsor participation
06 Provider participation
07 Cost per completed step
08 Early outcome signal
Forty years at the bedside. Twenty as an AHA CPR instructor. Based in South Holland — it starts with a person the Southland already trusts.
The boundary is part of the model: The Pulse Place does not practice medicine, diagnose, treat, provide acute care, broker referrals, charge per referral, or guarantee outcomes. Licensed providers own clinical care. The Pulse Place owns coordination, education, training, opt-in capture, routing workflows, and follow-up.