Wear Red for Women donates AEDs to State Fair Community College

December 16, 2025

Wear Red for Women, a Bothwell Foundation committee, recently donated two automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to State Fair Community College for its Ellebracht Agriculture and Mechanics building. An AED is a small, portable device used to treat sudden cardiac arrest. According to the American Heart Association, 9 in 10 cardiac arrest victims who receive a shock from an AED in the first minutes live.

Funds for the devices were raised during the 2025 Wear Red for Women luncheon and auction. The committee’s goal is to place AEDs in every place people work, learn, play or pray in Pettis and Benton counties, and it has already placed or committed over 100 AEDs in the Sedalia area since the luncheon’s inception in 2020. The 2026 Wear Red for Women event is Feb. 27, 2026, tickets will be available in January.

Cutline: State Fair Community College received two AEDs from the Bothwell Foundation’s Wear Red for Women committee for its Ellebracht Agriculture and Mechanics building. Front row, from left to right, Trish Henson, committee member; Lauren Thiel-Payne, Bothwell Foundation executive director; Jo Lynn Turley, SFCC Legislative Program manager and Bothwell Board of Trustees member; Misty Burnett, SFCC Technical Education and Workforce Innovation dean; Dr. Brent Bates, SFCC president; Allison Brosch, SFCC Health Sciences dean; and Darci McFail, SFCC interim Student Services dean; back row, from left to right, Keith Acuff, SFCC Finance and Administration vice president and Dr. Michael Murders, SFCC Academic and Student Success vice president and Bothwell Board of Trustees member.

Bothwell Regional Health Center is a regional health center serving west-central Missouri with state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive health and wellness services including primary care, specialty care and emergency care. For more information about Bothwell and its services, visit www.brhc.org or find us on Facebook.

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