Overview
Children’s Minnesota’s cardiovascular program provides comprehensive pediatric cardiovascular services – from routine care to advanced cardiac surgeries, from before birth and into adulthood. Our program treats the most pediatric cardiology patients in Minnesota and our outcomes are some of the best in the country. Our cardiovascular program is the only one in the region that is part of a health system dedicated exclusively to caring for children.
Children’s Minnesota and Mayo Clinic Children’s Center collaborate in the care of children with congenital heart disease and build on each organization’s passion for children as well as the complementary strengths of both programs. The Mayo Clinic – Children’s Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative is one of the largest and strongest pediatric cardiovascular collaborations in the country. The Mayo Clinic – Children’s Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative ranked as a Best Children’s Hospital for 2022-2023 by U.S. News & World Report in cardiology and heart surgery.
Children’s Minnesota offers a quick and secure method for sharing medical images and reports for consultation via Nuance PowerShare. Using this technology provides Children’s Minnesota providers timely access to images for critically ill patients and allows for more efficient and accurate consultations.
Fetal cardiology referrals
When concern for a fetal heart defect or other cardiovascular problem arises, our fetal cardiology team will partner with you to accurately diagnose and create an individualized treatment plan for your patient.
2026 Fetal Symposium
Conditions treated
- Atrioventricular septal defect
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Single ventricle defect
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVR)
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Ventricular septal defect
- Arrhythmia
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congestive heart failure
- Myocarditis
- Newborn screening
Services offered
- Integrates all pediatric cardiovascular services onto one floor and provides the highest level of technology available in the region, including a cardiac hybrid operating room. Pediatric cardiac intensivists are also devoted to patient care 24/7.
- Provides diagnoses and treatments for all forms of congenital and acquired cardiac diseases, along with 24/7 consultation services.
- Offers diagnostic and less invasive services, including but not limited to:
- Advanced cardiac imaging using Alpha CT technology
- Arrhythmia monitoring
- Cardiac catherization
- Early fetal cardiac screening and diagnosis (14–16 weeks gestational age)
- Echocardiography
- Electrocardiography (EKG)
- Electrophysiology studies
- Genetic testing
- Pacemaker interrogation
- Pediatric cardiac MRIs/MRA
- Stress testing
- Provides surgical therapies, including:
- Anomalous coronary artery
- Aorto-pulmonary shunt repair
- Aortic valve repair/valvotomy and replacement
- Arterial switch operation
- Ascending aortic augmentation (replacement)
- Atrial septal defect repair
- AVSD repair
- BCPS/BDG
- Bi-directional Glenn shunt procedure
- Coarctation of the aorta repair
- Diaphragm plication
- Fontan procedure
- Generator change
- Heart transplant
- Interrupted aortic arch repair
- Intra–cardiac defibrillator
- Mitral valve repair
- Norwood procedure
- Pacer placement
- Partial anomalous pulmonary venous repair
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pericardiostomy
- Pulmonary valve replacement
- Ross procedure
- RV–PA conduit (includes homografts)
- Subaortic stenosis repair
- Tetralogy of Fallot repair
- Total anomolous pulmonary venous repair
- Truncus arterious repair
- Tricuspid valve repair/replacement
- Vascular ring obstruction repair
- Ventricular Assistive Device (VAD)
- Ventricular septal defect repair
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
- Veno–venous ECMO
- Veno–arterial ECMO
Multidisciplinary clinics
- Adult congenital clinic
- Cardio-oncology clinic
- Fetal diagnosis and treatment clinic
- Heart failure clinic
- Lipid clinic
- Neurodevelopmental follow-up clinic
- 22q Clinic
Scheduling for Children’s Minnesota locations
Cardiovascular Care Center:
612-813-7400
The Children’s Heart Clinic:
612-813-8800
800-938-0301
Children’s Minnesota cardiovascular leadership team
Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery
Chief of Cardiology, Fetal Cardiology
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Care Center and ECMO
Associate Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery
Surgical Director, Heart Failure and Transplant
Medical Director, Fetal Cardiology
Medical Director, Interventional Cardiology
Co-Medical Director, Electrophysiology
Co-Medical Director, Electrophysiology
Medical Director, Echocardiography
Co-Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Co-Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Senior Director Strategy & Operations, Cardiovascular Services
Children's Minnesota Employee
Director of Intermediate Medical Care
Children’s Minnesota and The Children’s Heart Clinic team
General cardiology
Cardiac intensivists
David A. Dassenko, MD
Cameron Kasmai, MD
Advanced care practitioners
Heidi C. Shafland, APRN, CNS
Kaitlin R. Ward, PA-C
– Children’s Minnesota Employee
The Children’s Heart Clinic locations
Minneapolis
Children’s Minnesota Hospital – Minneapolis
Edward J. Phillips Cardiovascular Care Center
2525 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Children’s Minnesota Specialty Center
The Children’s Heart Clinic
2525 Chicago Avenue South, Suite 500
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Midwest Fetal Care Center
Services are provided by Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
902 E 26th Street Suite 1700
Minneapolis, MN 55404
St. Paul
Garden View Medical Building
The Children’s Heart Clinic
347 North Smith Avenue Suite 603
St. Paul, MN 55102
Minnesota Perinatal Physicians – a service of United Hospital St. Paul
Garden View Medical Building
347 Smith Ave N Suite 204
St. Paul, MN 55102
HealthPartners Fetal Clinic
2635 University Ave Ste 160
Saint Paul, MN 55114
Baxter/Brainerd
Essentia Health St. Joseph’s-Baxter Clinic
The Children’s Heart Clinic
13060 Isle Drive
Baxter, MN 56425
Coon Rapids
Minnesota Perinatal Physicians
A service of Mercy
3960 Coon Rapids Blvd NW STE 220
Coon Rapids, MN 55433
Duluth
Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic 3rd Street Building The Children’s Heart Clinic
400 East 3rd Street
Duluth, MN 55805
Edina
Minnesota Perinatal Physicians
A service of Abbott Northwestern Hospital
6525 France Ave S, Suite 205
Edina, MN 55435
Lakeville
Children’s Minnesota Specialty Center
18432 Kenrick Ave
Lakeville, MN 55044
Mankato
Mankato Clinic Children’s Health Center
The Children’s Heart Clinic
1421 Premier Dr.
Mankato, MN 56001
Maple Grove
Children’s Minnesota Primary Care and Specialty Center – Maple Grove (Bass Lake Road)
The Children’s Heart Clinic
12720 Bass Lake Rd Suite C
Maple Grove, MN 55369
Minnetonka
Children’s Minnesota Minnetonka Specialty Clinics
The Children’s Heart Clinic
6060 Clearwater Drive Suite 220 Minnetonka, MN 55343
St. Louis Park
Park Nicollet Specialty Center 3800 Park Nicollet Blvd Saint Louis Park, MN 55416-2527Woodbury
Children’s Minnesota Woodbury Specialty Center
The Children’s Heart Clinic
628 Bielenberg Drive Suite 200
Woodbury, MN 55125
