AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

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AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

• $3.5 Million Grant over 2 years

• AHA led

• 15 out of 16 hospitals have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),

• 25 EMS agencies have signed a MOU

• Dallas County’s populations 2.4 million

• SOAR

Symptom Onset to Arterial Reperfusion

AHA Dallas Caruth InitiativeBaylor Heart and Vascular

Hospital

Baylor Medical Center at Garland

Baylor Medical Center at Irving

Dallas Medical Center

Dallas Regional Medical Center

Doctors Hospital

Las Colinas Medical Center

Medical City Dallas Hospital

Methodist Charlton Medical Center

Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Parkland Health and Hospital System

Richardson Regional Medical Center

Texas Health Resources Presbyterian Dallas

Texas Regional Hospital Sunnyvale

UT Southwestern St Paul Hospital

AHA Dallas Caruth InitiativeAddison Fire Department

CareFliteCarrollton Fire DepartmentCedar Hill Fire DepartmentCoppell Fire DepartmentDallas Fire/RescueDallas/Ft. Worth Airport EMSDeSoto Fire RescueDuncanville Fire DepartmentFarmers Branch Fire DepartmentGarland Fire DepartmentGlen Heights Fire DepartmentGrand Prairie Fire DepartmentHighland Park of SafetyHutchins Fire DepartmentIrving Fire DepartmentLancaster Fire DepartmentMesquite Fire DepartmentRichardson Fire DepartmentRowlett Fire DepartmentSachse Fire DepartmentSunnyvale of Public SafetyTLC for SeagovilleUniversity Park Fire DepartmentWilmer Fire Department

AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

• Adequately funded

• Dedicated clinical staff

• AR-G Data merged with EMS data

• Hospitals and EMS reimbursed for data

collection

• Data merge and analyses UT Health Sciences

Center, Houston

• Extensive organization and buy in from

participating agencies and hospitals

American HeartAssociation

Communities Foundation of Texas

AHA Caruth AMISystem Initiative

Dallas Stakeholder Committee (149)Raymond Fowler

Michael Taylor

UT Southwestern

Dallas

UT Health Science

Center HoustonAHA Caruth

VolunteerAdvisory Board (11)

James Langabeer

EMSResources

Subcommittee (30)Kevin Cunningham

Craig White

ProtocolsSubcommittee (42)

Chris ChiaraMark Till

EducationSubcommittee (24)

Karen PickardChris Weinzapfel

Quality Improvement

Subcommittee (19)Bob Hillert

Tom Tierney

ConferencePlanning

Subcommittee (13) Tami Kayea

Jennifer Ledbetter

American College of Cardiology

AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

AHA Dallas Caruth Initiative

• EMS - Hospital Data Merge

• Symptom onset to arterial reperfusion

• Stated by Dr. James Jollis, Executive

Director of the RACE program in North

Carolina

– “One of the best executed Mission

Lifeline initiatives”