For Healthcare Professionals
The Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center transforms outcomes through the full integration of our clinical and research programs. Our unique approach to care helps our care teams to better understand, develop and deliver the latest, most effective treatments for children with heart disease.
Our Institute approach brings physicians, nurses and other clinical staff together with basic, clinical and translational research teams to change the way pediatric heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and potentially prevented.
Why to Refer to the Heart Institute
The Heart Institute is ranked the ninth best children's hospital in the nation in heart care and surgery in the 2011 edition of U.S. News' annual America's Best Children's Hospitals rankings.
Highlights of the Heart Institute
- Our hybrid cardiac catheterization lab is one of only a few highly specialized pediatric catheterization labs in the nation allowing combined catheter-based interventions and surgical procedures to be carried out in a single suite. Our interventional cardiologists have pioneered many catheter-based therapies to improve the outcomes of children with cardiac disease.
- Our heart transplant surgeons have experience performing transplants across a broad age-spectrum from newborns to young adults with complex heart defects.
- Our multidisciplinary diagnostic - Cardiomyopathy Clinic includes a cardiovascular geneticist to evaluate the etiology of cardiomyopathies associated with heart failure.
- Our Clinical Echocardiography Program features the Midwest's largest pediatric echocardiography staff and is a national leader in supplying echocardiography physicians for academic positions across the country. More than 10,000 studies are performed each year at Cincinnati Children's Echocardiography Lab, which is staffed by nine attending cardiologists and 10 sonographers specializing in the field.
- The Heart Institute has a dedicated group of basic scientists with national and international reputations who are solely devoted to understanding the causes of pediatric heart disease and finding novel cures.
- We have the first dedicated Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) in the region with a high volume of specialized and complex cases treated by a faculty double-boarded in pediatric cardiology and pediatric intensive care.
