Our Mission
To help save 150,000 more lives from sudden cardiac arrest each year by 2025.
Through the power of collaboration with healthcare providers globally, we can change the resuscitation standard of care through continuous learning and quality improvement, leading to verified competence in high-quality CPR delivery.
RQI Partners’ Formation
RQI Partners is a partnership between the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical, positioning the organizations to deliver innovative solutions that accelerate the impact of their lifesaving mission. The company blends the Association’s leadership in science and resuscitation education with Laerdal’s expertise in technology and implementation to deliver impactful and innovative resuscitation quality improvement programs. Our goals include:
- Helping save lives through modernized, digital resuscitation training programs powered by evidence-based science, educational principles and leading simulation technology
- Developing and implementing resuscitation quality improvement programs to optimize patient outcomes.
- Creating a new standard of care by shifting resuscitation practice from compliance to verified CPR competence.
The New Standard of Care
The ability to consistently perform high-quality CPR is crucial for improving cardiac arrest outcomes; the difference between CPR and high-quality CPR is survival. Conversely, providing poor-quality CPR is a preventable harm. However, research shows not all patients receive the necessary high-quality CPR to optimize their chances of survival:
- Cardiac arrest survival rates currently average less than 26%
- CPR skills decay within three to six months following conventional training
- There is a 42% difference in the odds of survival for patients at similar hospitals with a similar case mix
- Patients receive poor-quality CPR more than 50% of the time, despite the efforts of motivated healthcare professionals
Leadership
The American Heart Association (AHA), Laerdal Medical and RQI Partners’ executives commemorate the formation of RQI Partners.
Back row (from left): AHA VP and General Counsel Lewis Kinard, RQI Partners CEO Brian Eigel, RQI Partners Former CEO Clive Patrickson, AHA Chief of Mission-Aligned Businesses & Healthcare Solutions John Meiners, AHA COO Suzie Upton, AHA Chief Administrative Officer Larry Cannon, Laerdal Medical COO Alf-Christian Dybdahl. Front row (from left): AHA CEO Nancy Brown, Laerdal Medical Chairman and CEO Tore Laerdal
Careers at RQI Partners
RQI Partners employees are connected through a mission-driven vision and united by a commitment to helping save more lives from sudden cardiac arrest. We are always searching for more passionate professionals to join our growing global team.
