American Heart Association Certification
AHA BLS and ACLS Certification Courses
Polk County, FL · Initial & Renewal · Same-Day AHA Certification
Cardiac Edge delivers American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certification across Polk County — taught on the same AHA curriculum the region's hospitals, surgery centers, dental practices, and nursing programs require, with official AHA course completion cards issued the same day. Every session is led by Jason "Jay" Pellegrino, a 20-year paramedic who has trained more than 15,000 providers, so you learn the resuscitation standard from someone who has run it in the field — not read it from a slide. When your credential is on the line, that experience is the difference. We bring the training to your practice or facility, or we meet at a Central Florida training space we arrange and confirm when you book — initial or renewal, by appointment, on your timeline.
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AHA Certification Courses
Choose Your AHA Course
Pick the course you need and we come to you — by appointment, day or evening, seven days a week — or we set you up at a Central Florida training space we arrange. Initial and renewal AHA training for healthcare providers, medical practices, medical students, and nursing students, every session paramedic-taught. BLS is the American Heart Association's healthcare-provider CPR standard, covering high-quality compressions, AED use, bag-mask ventilation, and team dynamics. ACLS is the AHA's Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support course, covering rhythm recognition, megacode scenarios, airway management, and the resuscitation algorithms.
Already Did the Online Portion?
American Heart Association HeartCode Skills Sessions
Completed your AHA HeartCode online course? Book the hands-on skills check-off and walk out certified the same day. We bring the skills session to you — at your practice, facility, or group anywhere in Polk County — or we arrange a Central Florida training space and confirm the details when you book. Need full certification instead of a check-off? Ask about an initial or renewal BLS or ACLS session, with same-day certification whichever you choose. You schedule around your team's availability across Polk County and the surrounding area, seven days a week, with day and evening appointments. Request a date and we will set it.
AHA HeartCode BLS Skills Session
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The Polk County Difference
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Polk County, FL is one of the state's fastest-growing counties, stretched along the I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, and that growth is exactly why its certification gap keeps widening. Lakeland Regional Health runs a Level II trauma center and trains its own staff in-house, with Bartow Regional and Winter Haven Hospital backing it up, but the real story of Polk is everything spread out between those systems: a deep, decentralized base of independent dental offices, physical-therapy clinics, urgent cares and doctors' offices scattered from Lakeland to Davenport to Haines City. Those practices still need current AHA BLS and ACLS certification for their clinicians, yet none of them run an in-house program, and pulling a small staff off the floor to chase a class across the county burns a day they don't have. Cardiac Edge solves that by coming to your office anywhere in Polk County, or training your team by appointment at a Central Florida space we arrange, with real hands-on skills practice instead of a rushed checkoff. For the offices holding down care between Polk's big hospitals, that means certified, confident staff without the lost productivity of leaving the building.
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What Students Say About Our Classes and Skills Sessions
★★★★★
BLS Class
"Jason is one of the best BLS instructors I've ever come across. His teaching style is amazing, and you leave with the confidence to perform CPR in a real emergency."
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★★★★★
ACLS Class
"Just took ACLS with Jason — a great teacher who really breaks down the algorithms so you actually learn them, not just memorize for the test."
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Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What AHA classes do you offer? +
We offer American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certification — both initial and renewal — plus AHA HeartCode skills sessions.
When do I get my AHA certification? +
Same day. You receive your official American Heart Association certification the day of your class.
Do you come to our location? +
Yes. We offer on-site AHA training at your practice, facility, or group anywhere in Polk County — or you can reserve a session by appointment.
What is an AHA HeartCode skills session? +
If you've completed the AHA HeartCode online course, you come in for the hands-on skills check and walk out certified the same day.
Who needs these AHA classes? +
Healthcare providers across Polk County — hospital and ER/ICU nurses, paramedics and EMS crews, surgery-center, cardiology, and dental teams, and nursing and medical students — plus anyone whose role or program requires current American Heart Association certification.
What areas do you serve? +
We serve every community in Polk County, Florida — Lakeland, Winter Haven, Haines City, Auburndale, Bartow, Lake Wales, Highland City, and Lakeland Highlands among them — for all AHA BLS and ACLS classes. Find your community in the Areas We Serve section above.
American Heart Association Classes & Skills Sessions
Areas We Serve
Cardiac Edge serves Polk County, FL for AHA BLS and ACLS certification — initial and renewal, with same-day certification and paramedic-led, hands-on instruction. We come to your practice, facility, or group anywhere in Polk County, or we meet at a Central Florida training space we arrange and confirm when you book. Wherever you work in the area, we set the date around your schedule, not ours. Explore every community we cover on our Polk County, FL AHA courses page.