AUBURN — The Corporate and Community Services Department at Central Maine Community College is offering the American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers course from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4.

The course is designed to provide health care professionals with the following basic skills: adult and pediatric CPR, use of the bag-valve mask, airway obstruction, automated external defibrillation (with child AED update), stroke and cardiac arrest and other special resuscitation situations.

The course is open to the public and intended for health care workers at all levels. Also welcome are those whose work brings them into contact with members of the public such as school, hotel, fitness center and restaurant employees. Registration for this course is open and ongoing, however space is limited. The cost is $79 and includes all materials.

For more information or to register please visit, www.cmcc.edu/ccs. The registration deadline is July 31.