The Benefits of Affiliation with Project ADAM

Affiliate Hospital

• National program implementation resources
• United in a mission to support schools in implementing the chain of survival
• Project ADAM national exposure

Partner Schools

• Recipient of resources to respond to a cardiac emergency
• Part of a national effort to save lives
• Heart safe schools are part of an environment that fosters healthy, resilient learners.
• Schools as community gathering spaces want to be well equipped to meet the community standard of care for sudden cardiac arrest.
• An investment in school CPR-AED programs is an investment in the community that will pay dividends over time with more community members aware of, and able to perform CPR-AED rescue.

Affiliate Medical Directors

• Identified leader in improving out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival rates
• Identified state expert in school CPR-AED programs
• Participate in future national collaborative to prevent sudden cardiac death in the young
• Research opportunities

Marketing

• Often, affiliate programs get positive press for implementing Heart Safe Schools
• Future research will be conducted to prove a possible correlation between positive media press and patient volumes
• Amazing survivor stories that raise awareness of SCA