For Immediate Release
Cumming, Georgia
Despite outperforming national benchmarks on bystander CPR, public AED use, and overall cardiac arrest survival, an estimated 210 Gwinnett County residents who suffered cardiac arrest in 2025 received no CPR before emergency medical services arrived.
The report, titled The North Atlanta Cardiac Arrest Gap, draws on Gwinnett Fire & EMS CARES data for calendar year 2025 and benchmarks local performance against national CARES registry averages.
Gwinnett County's bystander CPR rate of 48.4% exceeds the national benchmark of 42.5%. Public AED deployment reached 17.2%, exceeding the national rate of 13.9%. Overall survival to hospital discharge is 12.8%, compared with the national average of 10.5%.
The report projects that matching Alaska's 77.0% bystander CPR rate could increase estimated annual survivors across Gwinnett and Forsyth County from roughly 54 to 66, or 12 additional lives saved each year.
The report also highlights a quality gap: Gwinnett's Utstein survival rate is 22.7%, compared with a national benchmark of 33.2%, a 10.5 percentage point difference identified as a priority issue for EMS and hospital system review.
"The most common reason people have never taken CPR is simply that their employer did not require it. The second reason is fear of being sued. Both are solvable."
About Work Readiness Center
Work Readiness Center is a CPR training and certification organization serving North Atlanta, including Gwinnett and Forsyth Counties. The organization offers American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR certification for individuals, employers, churches, and community organizations.
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- Work Readiness Center
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- workreadinesscenter.com
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- Cumming, Georgia