b'The Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) allows communities to benchmark their performance with local, state, and national metrics to better identify opportunities to improve their OHCA care. CARES offers a comprehensive understanding of where arrests are occurring, whether bystanders are providing intervention prior to EMS arrival, EMS and hospital performance, and patient outcomes. This in turn provides the data necessary to make informed decisions and allocate limited resources for maximal community benefit. By creating an easy-to-use and flexible system to collect OHCA data and forming a community to share best practices, CARES has transformed the way EMS agencies are treating cardiac arrest. Participating agencies can make decisions in their community based on real-time feedback and analysis to increase survival.CARES reaches its culmination during the national reporting process, which begins once the dataset for the calendar year is finalized. Participating states, EMS agencies, and hospitals receive their official CARES reports for the year. For 2024, more than 11,000 reports were generated during the three-day reporting process, making it possible for every CARES participant to compare local, regional, and national data for benchmarking and surveillance purposes with the goal of increasing survival from OHCA.We sincerely appreciate the members of the EMS and hospital CARES communities, as well as the sponsors (American Red Cross, American Heart Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Emory University Woodruff Health Sciences Center) who support our mission to save lives and improve patient care. We are pleased to present the CARES 2024 Annual Report.CARES receives the Expansion and Modernization Grant from the CDC CARES introduces its(Emory News), focusing on: first annual report, Expanding to all 50 states.sharing survivorCARES perfectly Enhancing quality improvement stories, researchaligns with NEMSISactivities. highlights, and av3.5 for state uploads Developing the NextGen CARES detailed dataand covers 50% ofsoftware platform. breakdown each year. the US population.Addressing variability in outcomes.CARES covers 1/3 ofCARES captures aThe CAROL Act, namedThe registry grows to cover the US population,million cumulativeafter the late Carol Barr,over 186 million people in the spanning regionsrecords since itsunanimously passedU.S., with participation from and states, enablinginception, furtherboth chambers and56% of the population and over the collection of oversolidifying its role aswas signed into law,2,600 EMS agencies. CARES has 60,000 cases annuallya comprehensiveproviding congressionalover 150 peer-reviewed to support targetedregistry for survivalappropriation for thepublications to date.interventionsbenchmarking. CDC CARES Expansion and5and policy. Modernization Grant (2023-2027).'