The City of Sandy Springs, GA Partners with Northside Hospital and Avive’s 4 Minute Community™ Program

San Francisco, CA– August 5, 2025 – Avive Solutions, Inc. announces its partnership with the City of Sandy Springs, Georgia, as part of Avive’s 4 Minute Community™ Program. Sandy Springs joins its neighboring Forsyth County, GA and numerous other communities across Texas, Pennsylvanie, and Tennessee in their adoption of the 4 Minute Community Program: an innovative, first-of-its-kind approach to improving cardiac arrest response. 

The 4 Minute Community Program in Sandy Springs, GA is a collaboration between Avive Solutions, the City of Sandy Springs, Northside Hospital Foundation, Northside Hospital Heart Institute and the Sandy Springs Fire Department. 

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a critical medical emergency that occurs when the heart unexpectedly stops beating normally. In the United States alone, there are more than 356,000 OHCA cases reported every year, with nearly 90% resulting in fatalities. 

Sandy Springs’ 4 Minute Community Program will work to strategically place 200 Avive Connect AED^®s with individuals in the community in an effort to increase bystander intervention and provide rapid response to a person experiencing SCA. The goal is to strengthen the links of the Chain of Survival with Avive’s new technology and deliver lifesaving therapy with an AED to someone in cardiac arrest before first responders arrive on scene.

“We’re proud to welcome Sandy Springs into our growing network of 4 Minute Communities,” said Sameer Jafri, CEO and Co-Founder of Avive Solutions. “The City is demonstrating bold and inspiring leadership by taking this step to advance cardiac emergency response for its citizens in the pre-hospital setting. Through this impactful multi-stakeholder collaboration, including the continued support of Northside Hospital Foundation, we’re building a model that communities across the nation can look to and replicate. Together with our ongoing work in Forsyth County, this partnership represents a significant step forward in expanding a connected system of care across Georgia, and in reshaping how sudden cardiac arrest is addressed across the country.”

What Is the 4 Minute Community Program?

The 4 Minute Community Program seeks to bridge the crucial gap between a cardiac arrest and the arrival of professional emergency responders. By leveraging historical data on SCA throughout a community, the program equips CPR-trained citizen volunteers with Avive Connect AEDs. These volunteers, known as Cardiac Arrest Rapid Engagement (CARE) team members, can be alerted by 911 and dispatched to nearby emergencies via a mapping system. 

“The addition of these devices will have a direct impact on increasing the survival rates of cardiac arrest,” said Sandy Springs Fire Chief Keith Sanders. “I’m incredibly proud to be part of this innovative life-saving initiative.”

The Avive Connect AED leverages its REALConnect™ Services to enable Intelligent Response technology and transform emergency cardiac care. Intelligent Response empowers 911 telecommunicators to dispatch nearby Avive Connect AED®s to the scene of SCA emergencies. The Avive Connect AED is integrated via RapidSOS with Sandy Springs’ 911 Emergency Communications Center, Chattahoochee River 911 Authority (ChatComm), an International Academies of Emergency Dispatch Accredited Center of Excellence. Once triggered, the nearby AEDs flash a red screen and sound an alarm, giving bystanders directions to the scene and guiding them through the emergency with step-by-step CPR and defibrillation instructions. While high-quality CPR buys time, only a shock from an AED can restore a person’s heartbeat and save their life. This seamless coordination between CARE team members, next-generation AED technology, and emergency services establishes a new standard for cardiac arrest response.

 “Expanding the 4 Minute Community Program into Sandy Springs represents another powerful step in Northside’s commitment to building healthier, safer communities,” said Kim Anker, director of the Northside Hospital Foundation. “This partnership brings together innovative technology, passionate local leadership and generous community support — all working toward one lifesaving goal. We’re honored to help drive this initiative forward and thankful to everyone who’s making it possible.”

“This program not only helps save lives in the field — it also gives our medical teams a clearer picture of what occurred in those crucial first minutes of cardiac arrest,” added Dr. Jeffrey Marshall, cardiologist with Northside Hospital Heart Institute. “With access to real-time data and insights captured before EMS even arrives, we can make more informed clinical decisions the moment a patient enters our care. That’s an extraordinary advancement, and we believe it will translate to better outcomes and more lives saved.”

The City of Sandy Springs has been working diligently to decrease the time it takes to deliver high-quality care to a patient in cardiac arrest. For more information and updates on Sandy Springs’ participation in the 4 Minute Community Program, please visit avive.life/4-minute-community/sandy-springs  

About the City of Sandy Springs, GA: 

Incorporated in 2005, Sandy Springs is Georgia’s seventh-largest city and the second-largest in metro Atlanta. Located in northern Fulton County with a population of around 108,000, it blends suburban charm with a strong business presence, housing major corporate headquarters like Mercedes‑Benz USA, UPS, and Cox Enterprises. The city is known for its innovative public-private partnership model for municipal services, over 950 acres of parkland, and 22 miles of Chattahoochee River frontage. With a vibrant downtown at City Springs, year-round community events, and excellent connectivity via GA‑400 and MARTA, Sandy Springs offers a high quality of life, top schools, and rich cultural and recreational amenities.

About Avive Solutions, Inc.:
Avive Solutions, Inc. is a Brisbane, CA-based company dedicated to developing state-of-the-art Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) designed to be accessible, intuitive, and effective in saving lives during Sudden Cardiac Arrest emergencies. Avive’s mission is to ensure that lifesaving AED technology is available in every community across the nation. Learn more at https://avive.life.

About Northside Hospital:
The Northside Hospital health care system is one of Georgia’s leading health care providers with five acute-care hospitals in Atlanta, Canton, Cumming, Duluth and Lawrenceville and nearly 500 outpatient locations across the state. Northside Hospital leads the U.S. in newborn deliveries and is among the state’s top providers of cancer care, sports medicine, cardiovascular and surgical services. For more information, visit northside.com.

Media Contacts:‍

Katerina Miras
Avive Solutions
katerina@avive.life

Katherine Watson
Northside Hospital
katherine.watson@northside.com

For more information, visit avive.life and northside.com.