{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-31-11-130","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 31-11-130","heading":"Legislative findings.","body":"The General Assembly finds and declares that:\n(1) Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and in Georgia;\n(2) Georgia ranks as the thirty-eighth worst in the nation for numbers of deaths from cardiovascular disease;\n(3) There were 79,901 deaths in Georgia in 2015, and cardiovascular disease (excluding stroke) accounted for 23.6 percent of such deaths;\n(4) Approximately 40 percent of cardiac deaths occur suddenly, the result of a heart attack that is manifested by an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest;\n(5) As of 2016, several states, but notably Arizona and Washington, have designated hospitals that are expert in cardiovascular disease care, much in the way that Georgia has stroke and trauma centers; Arizona and Washington have some of the lowest death rates for patients who have heart attacks, in part due to their designated cardiac centers; and\n(6) Therefore, it is in the best interest of the residents of this state to establish a program to identify emergency cardiac care centers throughout the state to ensure the rapid triage, assessment, treatment, and transport of patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest or heart attack or its complications.","path":["TITLE 31 Health","CHAPTER 11 Emergency Medical Services","Article 7 Emergency Cardiac Care Centers"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.31.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"50a1825805bcd64a183ae0669daee01a216cb1fadb1dd7a90476e1344910bf00","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-31-11-119","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-31-11-131"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}