Congenital Heart Care | Spectrum Health

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We're leading the way in congenital heart care

The Congenital Heart Center at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital offers access to breakthrough thinking with personalized attention from the very specialists who are leading the program. Patients from around the world come to the Congenital Heart Center for complex procedures, many of which were not able to be performed elsewhere. Our advances in diagnosing, treating, and managing congenital heart disease offer big impact for lifelong care.

Why choose Helen DeVos Children's Hospital?

Outcomes among the top in the nation

The congenital heart center has delivered some of the best risk-adjusted surgical survival rates and lengths-of-stay outcomes in the nation. Our program is also well recognized by those in the field of cardiology.

“Best Children’s Hospital in Cardiology and Heart Surgery” by U.S. News & World Report
Beacon Gold Award for specialized Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Accreditation by the Adult Congenital Heart Association as a comprehensive care center – one of the first in the country

Personal attention from every level of your team

Along with dedicated experts in congenital heart care, our department leaders take a personal role in your care. A nurse navigator is assigned to every patient to offer care coordination and encouragement throughout your journey.

15 Pediatric Cardiologists
13 Advance Practice Providers
10 Registered Pediatric Cardiac Sonographers

Integrated expertise for vulnerable patients

Our fully integrated program offers fetal cardiology, maternal fetal medicine, and neonatology, to provide multidisciplinary care in a central location, including the largest neonatal unit in Michigan.

Doctors discussing what is on the monitor

Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Fetal Care Center

Innovation advancing the course of congenital heart care

We utilize advanced cardiac imaging and 3D printing and visualization technologies to enhance pre-surgical planning and provide individualized procedures for many complex patients.