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Institutional Member Profiles

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Atrium Health

The Congenital Heart Center, established in 2010, has been ranked as one of the top-50 pediatric heart centers in the country by U.S. News and World Report for the last nine years. Our comprehensive services include cardiac imaging, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, invasive electrophysiology, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff, and regional referral programs in heart failure/transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography. Surgical and cardiac catheterization volume are growing at a rate of 10-15% per year. Our state-of-the-art two lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite opened in February of 2017, with dedicated staffing and anesthesia teams. Our new outpatient office complex opened in December 2020, designed to treat all patients from fetal cardiology to ACHD. We have one of the most comprehensive Cardiac Neurodevelopment programs in the Southeast, providing a multitude of specialty services to our congenital heart patients in the same office suite. Participation in investigator-initiated and multi-center industry-sponsored studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with the support of an active clinical research department.

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute (SHVI) is one of the Southeast’s largest cardiac and vascular programs. Sanger employs more than 110 physicians in a network of more than 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. SHVI has more than 50 years of experience providing world-class, comprehensive acute and chronic cardiovascular services including the region’s only heart transplant center and pediatric/congenital heart surgery program.

Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is a state-of-the-art facility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. LCH has 11 floors and 234 inpatient beds, including on-site PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-house intensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the region’s leading provider of pediatric health care services.

LCH and SHVI are both premier referral facilities within Atrium Health (AH), one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare systems. AH operates nearly 2,500 system-employed physicians, more than 60,000 employees and more than 7,460 licensed beds across the Carolinas and beyond.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

For over a hundred years, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has endeavored to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. As the largest cardiac program in the Southeast, one of the top five largest pediatric heart centers in the nation for Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and Cardiac Acute Care Unit (CACU) volumes, and one of the top ten largest pediatric heart centers for heart surgery, catheterization procedure and transplant volumes, Children’s Heart Center provides exceptional treatment for complex heart defects encompassing patients from fetus through adulthood.

Offering the only support group of its kind in the nation, Children’s Kids at Heart program has served thousands of families providing education, meals, and emotional support. Through academic partnerships with Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology, Children’s Heart Center is also a national leader in heart disease research while treating more than 40,000 complex congenital cardiac patients annually.

In September 2024, Children’s Heart Center will move to the new, 446-bed Arthur M. Blank Hospital offering more than 20 acres of greenspace, including walking and biking trails, state-of-the-art patient rooms, and technological advancements allowing for enhanced research, 3D printing, and simulation training. For more information, follow Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, or TikTok.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Established in 1995, the CICU at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest critical care units in the country dedicated to the care of children with heart conditions. Our specially trained physicians treat a high volume of rare and complex congenital heart diseases each year, offering a unique level of expertise in this field. The Cardiac Center continues to expand our capacity through premiere programs, such as the Jill and Mark Fishman Center for Lymphatic Disorders and the Pediatric Heart Valve Center.

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Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute

Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute was formed in 2008 with the mission to transform pediatric heart disease through the integration of clinical care, molecular cardiovascular research, and education. In 2020, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute as one of the top programs in the nation for pediatric cardiology. The Heart Institute team has pioneered many advances in pediatric cardiology, including a first-in-nation ventricular assist device in a Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patient, numerous transcatheter (nonsurgical) intervention therapies, echocardiography of complex cardiac malformations, and the evaluation of cardiac disease during exercise stress. As one of the largest pediatric cardiology programs in the nation, the world-renowned team at the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has achieved outcomes that rival or surpass those at other top centers, for even the most challenging cases.

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Phoenix Children’s

The Center for Heart Care at Phoenix Children’s, consistently named among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, is committed to team-based care, bringing wide-ranging expertise together to meet the unique needs of each patient. With teamwork as its foundation, Phoenix Children’s has led the way in the southwest region, being the first in Arizona and among the first in the nation to offer several advanced cardiovascular procedures. These include Cone reconstruction for children with Ebstein’s anomaly, the implantation of the Harmony™ transcatheter pulmonary valve and the use of the CardioMEMS™ HF System to monitor children at home while they await a transplant. Phoenix Children’s averages 12- 15 heart transplants a year and has implanted one of the smallest and youngest total artificial hearts in its ever-expanding mechanical device program. It is also one of the only centers in the country accredited as an Adult Congenital Heart Disease Comprehensive Care Center by the Adult Congenital Heart Association. With high volumes and a complex case mix, Phoenix Children’s regularly earns a 3-Star Rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, with survival and risk-adjusted mortality rates that meet or exceed expectations. Looking to the future of care, Phoenix Children’s participates in cardiovascular research through its membership in the nationwide Pediatric Heart Network. For more information, follow Phoenix Children’s on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn or YouTube, or visit Phoenixchildrens.org.