RQI Partners LLC enters into an agreement with HealthcareSource to market, sell and provide customer access to resuscitation product portfolio

Move positions company to bring a new standard of care to U.S. hospitals in effort to improve cardiac arrest outcomes

DALLAS, Feb. 6, 2019—RQI Partners LLC, a joint venture partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical focused on delivering innovative resuscitation solutions to dramatically enhance patient outcomes across healthcare systems, is taking another major step in its goal to implement a new standard of resuscitation quality and patient care in U.S. hospitals. The company announced today it has entered into an agreement with HealthcareSource^®, the leading provider of talent management solutions for the healthcare industry,to market and sell the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical’s co-developed Resuscitation Quality Improvement^® program and HeartCode^® portfolio of Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support eLearning programs. Additionally, HealthcareSource will provide RQI Partners’ customers access to these programs on HealthcareSource’s learning management system (LMS). The agreement is effective immediately.

“We are pleased to work with HealthcareSource, a company with a mission to transform healthcare by providing solutions that improve the quality of patient care,to market, sell and provide our customers access to our product portfolio on its LMS platform,” said Clive Patrickson, RQI Partners’ CEO. “This move illustrates RQI Partners’ commitment to an LMS-agnostic environment, as well as extending distribution channels for our product suite. We want to ensure healthcare professionals possess the essential skills to perform high-quality CPR on every patient, every time and are excited to partner with HealthcareSource to further the reach of our resuscitation products.”

Each year, more than 200,000 adult cardiac arrests occur in U.S. hospitals and less than 26 percent of adult patients survive. High-quality CPR is the primary component that influences survival from cardiac arrest. Last month, RQI Partners launched RQI 2020, a comprehensive, continuous quality improvement program that will deliver higher CPR quality at a lower cost to healthcare systems and professionals.

“We are thrilled to be offering our clients access to this gold standard in life support training that is proven to improve cardiac arrest outcomes,” said J.P. Fingado, HealthcareSource president and chief executive officer. “We’ve found that continuous access to high-quality education and hands-on training enables healthcare organizations to provide better care, enhance employee skill sets and reduce turnover from improved employee engagement. Continually adding new content to our talent management platform is another way we are helping our clients improve outcomes across the entire continuum of care.”

For more information about RQI and RQI Partners, visit www.rqipartners.com.

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