gaps in the care pathway for trauma and emergency patients, who may experience delays or disconnects on their way through treatment and recovery.

The CARESTAR Foundation focuses grantmaking on programs that connect, coordinate, and create partnerships between the groups that care for trauma and emergency patients. We fund a range of ideas and initiatives – including programs that train bystanders to “stop the bleed” at an accident scene, software that helps paramedics gain better electronic communication with hospitals and relationships between trauma centers and not-profit organizations that are designed to help victims of trauma stay safe from re-injury.