What Sets Us Apart
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U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as one of the Top 10 best children's hospitals in the nation in heart care and surgery in the 2009 edition of its annual "America’s Best Hospital" rankings.
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The Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center – a fully integrated pediatric heart institute – transforms outcomes in pediatric cardiac care by the free exchange of information between clinical and research areas. This first-of-its-kind partnership allows our care teams to better understand, develop and deliver the latest, most effective treatments for children with heart disease.
The Heart Institute brings physicians, nurses and other clinical staff together with basic, clinical and translational research teams to change the way pediatric heart disease is treated – and prevented.
From Bench To Bedside
The nationally recognized Heart Institute is highly regarded for:
- Fostering clinical innovation
- Supporting research initiatives
- Providing educational opportunities for fellows, residents and specialists
The institute merges the diverse activities of:
- Clinical care
- Research
- Education
- Operations
- Outcomes improvement
This approach drives the exchange of information between bench and bedside, and facilitates each discipline’s ability to respond to the other.
Within the Heart Institute, researchers, physicians and nurses interact daily with the goal of defining new disease pathways and developing novel treatments for pediatric cardiovascular disease.The result is world-class pediatric heart care.
Heart Institute Highlights
- Cincinnati Children's cardiac surgery program is highly-regarded for its outstanding outcomes, especially complete repair of complex defects in infancy.
- 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 – offered monthly – includes a cardiovascular geneticist to evaluate the etiology of cardiomyopathies associated with heart failure.
- Our cardiology fellowship training program offers participation in state-of-the-art patient care and opportunities for research training in a variety of basic, clinical and translational science areas.
- 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.
- 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.
Heart Institute Contact Information
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
