Children's Heart Center

The Heart Center at Lurie Children’s, the region's largest children's heart center, brings the spectrum of cardiac specialists together to care for patients with the most complex and serious heart conditions throughout their lifespans — from before birth, through childhood and into adulthood. We use the most comprehensive heart tests and treatments to deliver the highest quality care from admission, to discharge, to follow-up, and our services range from fetal cardiology to cardiac disease prevention to pediatric interventional cardiology to heart transplantation. Our experienced, multidisciplinary teams of pediatric cardiologists and surgeons make it easier for patients to see every specialist they may need under one roof and often in the same visit. 

Lurie Children's experts have a wide range of experience, treating more patients with cardiac conditions than any other hospital in Illinois. 

• Each year, our cardiologists see more than 16,000 pediatric patients in outpatient diagnostic visits and more than 300 inpatients.
• Lurie Children's is home to the Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit, which was built to ensure the continuity of care from admit to discharge, and is staffed by a team of specialists that meet the unique needs of its patients.
• Our interventional cardiologists perform more than 750 cardiac catheterization procedures, including implanting a pulmonary valve, which is a less invasive procedure than surgical valve replacement.
• On average, our heart surgeons perform 450 heart surgeries each year, with one of the best survival rates for congenital heart surgery among the nation’s 40 largest and most advanced children’s hospitals — even for heart transplants.
• Lurie Children's Heart Center is committed to training the leaders of tomorrow through a number of educational opportunities. 

Lurie Children’s is ranked 2nd in the nation for child cardiology and heart surgery by U.S.News & World Report. For three successive public reporting periods (2015, 2016, and 2017), the Society of Thoracic Surgeons rated Lurie Children’s as a 3-Star hospital, the highest rating level awarded.