CARES can make a difference

CARES helps communities measure performance and identify how to improve cardiac arrest survival rates. By joining CARES, communities gain more than just access to information that will help them improve performance and save lives. They also contribute to one of the largest EMS registries in the world, and one of the few that also includes patient outcome information from hospitals. Those features enable CARES data to be used to conduct vital research that furthers our knowledge of cardiac arrest treatment and saves countless lives for years to come.

Benefits of joining CARES

• Join a network of communities working together to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest
• Compare your community to local, state, and national performance and discover ways to improve your emergency medical system's response to cardiac arrest
• Use simple, HIPAA-compliant, web-based software to link EMS and hospital data, creating a single record for each OHCA event
• Access multiple real-time reporting features, including charts, graphs, and tables for use in reports, presentations, and more
• Receive training and ongoing support from CARES staff to get the most out of participation, including one-on-one consultation to review your community's annual report and comparison to national benchmarks

LATEST NEWS

CARES will convene the CARES PAROS meeting during the National Association of EMS Physicians Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida. The session will be held Thursday, January 29, 2026, from 7:30-8:30 a.m. EST at the JW Marriott Tampa in the Veranda Room, with a virtual attendance option available via Zoo 

This CARES study examined 17,903 pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests from 2017-2022 and found that only 9.2% of children survived to hospital discharge with favorable neurologic outcome. Neighborhood opportunity level was associated with both how often cardiac arrest occurred and the likelihoo