Children’s National Heart Institute includes Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Intensive Care, and Cardiac Anesthesia. Children’s National Heart Institute is an international leader in pediatric cardiac care. In addition to serving the metro DC region, families travel to the Children’s National team from across the country and from around the world. The Institute brings together a multidisciplinary team to provide specialized expertise and world-class care for children with cardiac defects.
Our team of world-class cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, interventionalists, cardiac intensivists anesthesiologists, adult congenital cardiologists, and fetal heart specialists care for patients, from fetus to adults, with a wide range of congenital heart disease.
Our goal is to provide early intervention to maximize the quality of our patients’ lives, and ease the stress on their families. A child’s illness affects the entire family, which is why we focus our care from the perspective of the family. Our team members are specially trained to treat children and are sensitive to their needs, as well as those of their families. We provide the emotional and spiritual support needed to thrive before, during and after the family’s time at Children’s.
Why Choose Children’s National Heart Institute?
The Children’s National Heart Institute team includes a pioneer in corrective cardiac surgery, a leading interventional cardiologist, highly trained experts in fetal cardiac imaging, dually boarded physicians in pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care medicine, and internationally known experts in pediatric echocardiography. Specially trained nurse practitioners, genetic counselors, social workers, nutritionists, case managers, child life specialists, and pharmacists complement the core team.
Our team cares for some of the most complex cases in the world, and has one of the highest success rates for cardiac surgery in the nation.
The Institute is one of only a few programs in the country with a specialized team of pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists who provide anesthesia and pain management for patients with congenital heart disease.
Patient Resources
Children’s National Heart Institute provides many family-centered services because we understand that when a child is diagnosed with a cardiac problem, the entire family is involved and affected. Patient resources include:
