Medtronic, Inc. Commits $15 Million in Unprecedented Effort to Reduce Sudden Cardiac Arrest Deaths

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Medtronic Foundation announced today a $15 million commitment to reduce sudden cardiac arrest deaths in the United States. The HeartRescue Project assembles the country’s leading emergency and resuscitation experts to expand successful city and county sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) response programs to statewide levels. The goal is to improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates by at least 50 percent in five years within pilot states of Arizona, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington.