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Children’s pediatric cardiovascular program is one of the largest in the region. Team members care for thousands of the region’s sickest children with heart conditions, including fetuses, newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and adult, long-term patients with pediatric cardiovascular conditions.
At Children's families experience coordinated, next-generation care, delivered by a compassionate, multidisciplinary team of leaders in the pediatric cardiology field.
Children’s has designated its cardiovascular program as a “cornerstone program.” These are major Children’s programs which meet rigorous criteria for excellence, including outstanding use of evidence-based practices, clinical research, and advanced technologies.
Here are just a few examples of excellence from Children’s cardiovascular program:
 | Treatment results among the best in the nation. Cardiovascular treatment results are consistently among the best in the nation in outcome measures collected by the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS).
| | One of the largest pediatric cardiovascular programs in the region. Studies have shown that high volumes are associated with high quality and better outcomes, because experience is a major factor in quality of care. At Children’s, more than 8,000 pediatric heart surgeries have been performed since the program’s inception. |
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| The only dedicated pediatric cardiac catheterization lab in the Upper Midwest. Increasingly, heart catheterization is an appropriate, less invasive option that can help children avoid open-heart surgery and prolonged hospital stays.
| | One of the few comprehensive adult congenital heart programs in the U.S. Thanks to medical and surgical breakthroughs, 90 percent of children born with congenital heart defects are expected to live to adulthood. The Midwest Adult Congenital Cardiac Center treats these adolescent and adult survivors.
| | High-quality EKG and echocardiography services. Children's echocardiography laboratories are the first in Minnesota to receive national accreditation in pediatric transthoracic echocardiography from the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL). Children’s sonographers and respiratory care practitioners are solely dedicated to pediatrics and highly experienced in pediatric cardiovascular problems. Working with pediatric cardiologists, they interpret more than 10,000 echocardiograms and 9,000 EKGs each year. Fast, accurate interpretations typically are available within two to four hours.
| | An environment of teamwork and excellence. Children’s is ranked one of the top eight pediatric hospitals in the country for quality and safety (and the only pediatric hospital in Minnesota) by the respected Leapfrog Group. Children’s also has been awarded “Magnet” designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, putting it in the top 4 percent of hospitals in the U.S. in nursing excellence. In 2007, Children’s ranked among America's Best Children’s Hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report's first-annual ranking of pediatric hospitals in the U.S.
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Inpatient care is provided to Children’s cardiovascular patients in the following locations:
| The 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s – Minneapolis. | | The 20-bed intermediate care unit at Children’s – Minneapolis. | | The 12-bed pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s – St. Paul.
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Cardiac surgeries are performed at Children’s – Minneapolis. See our Locations page for directions to Children’s – Minneapolis.
Outpatient care, such as diagnostic testing, may be provided at different locations depending on the specific needs of your child and family. Care may be provided at Children’s – Minneapolis, Children’s – St. Paul, and/or through Children’s Heart Clinic locations in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Brainerd, Coon Rapids, Duluth, Shakopee, St. Cloud, and Virginia, MN.
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Health Professionals
For a cardiac-related referral or consultation, call
Children’s Heart Clinic at 1-800-938-0301.
For any other physician referral or consultation, call Children's Physician Access at
1-866-755-2121 or (612) 343-2121.
Families
To make a cardiology appointment
Children’s Heart Clinic
(612) 813-8800 or 1-800-938-0301 (toll-free)
Questions about hospital care
Children’s – Minneapolis
(612) 813-6100
Children’s – St. Paul
(651) 220-6000
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