Carolyn Tomao, owner of ABC CPR Services, Inc. has always cared deeply about empowering people to take action when someone is in need.
“It’s important to me to educate people both on saving a life and also preventing lifelong disability,” Carolyn says, “With a few simple skills, family and friends can enormously improve outcomes when someone is experiencing a stroke, heart attack, or other life threatening emergencies –precious minutes can be saved when those on hand know the right steps to take.”
Carolyn, herself has been a registered nurse for 20 plus years and took the AHA Instructor course in 1995. She first trained her own friends, family and colleagues. Seeing the gap between the number of those in her community who needed to learn the skills and the amount of courses available, Carolyn jumped to fill the need and launched ABC CPR Services in 1996.
Carolyn’s background is a registered nurse specializing in cardiac care, currently working as admission nurse part-time in the Emergency room setting. She has just completed her Masters in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has a Bachelors in Nursing from Framingham State College.
MaryAnn Williamson is the “go-to” person for ABC CPR’s business office. She handles client accounts, billing, and all bookkeeping responsibilities. Her 20+ years of office management keep her unfazed by any situation.
MaryAnn’s friendliness and accessibility keep the ABC CPR office cheerful and welcoming. She is also an AHA BLS Instructor and assists teaching on an as needed basis. MaryAnn finds it very rewarding to take part in Carolyn’s important mission.
Susan Chicco As the Training Center Coordinator for ABC CPR Services, she is responsible for maintaining the instructor data base, which currently consists of approximately 250 instructors and growing!
She keeps instructors current on all American Heart Association/ABC CPR policies, guideline updates, oversees the instructor network and sends updates regularly via an ABC CPR newsletter. Susan also schedules on site and off site classes with customers as well as scheduling the instructors for all ABC CPR classes. She regularly updates the website and along with the day-to-day operations in the office she helps create policy revisions and assists with marketing.
In addition to this, she is also a certified AHA BLS instructor herself. She teaches BLS and Heartsaver courses along with AHA Instructor initial and renewal courses for ABC CPR Services. Susan is the “go-to” resource person for ABC CPR and welcomes questions regarding: instructor courses, CPR courses, scheduling on site classes, card replacement and AHA/ABC CPR policies. From a lay person’s perspective, Susan is passionate in supporting Carolyn in her mission.
Bryan Chauvin is the latest addition to the ABC CPR office staff. He is a welcomed new employee! Bryan handles the data base for all classes taught by ABC CPR instructors and processes certification cards for the students. He issue replacement cards as needed and assists around the office with various duties.
ABC CPR Services’ Employees
From left-right: Ann DiCorcia, Charlie Boneau, Andrew MacQueen, MaryAnn Williamson, Jackie Carrasquillo, Kelly Clarke, Brian Couture, Bryan Chauvin, Lori Chauvin, Judy Radley, Susan Chicco, Patty Vossmer and Linda Jarrett. Missing from photo, Scott Inglis.
