Pediatric heart surgery results
Find a heart specialistIt can be overwhelming making decisions about your child’s health care. That’s why we routinely publish the results of our heart surgeries, including survival rates and how long children typically need to stay in the hospital.
We’re committed to providing the most updated and transparent information, so you can make informed decisions and feel confident about your child’s care.
Our cardiac surgery program regularly outperforms the national average and is ranked among the best in the nation for our pediatric heart surgery outcomes.
Understanding the data and why it matters
Like most heart programs, we report the results of our heart surgeries to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) - one of the largest professional associations in the world. The STS gathers outcome data from nearly every hospital in the country that performs heart surgery in children. The data is analyzed and updated continuously so that each center’s results are benchmarked against the aggregate of all centers.
Reporting this information publicly ensures hospitals are transparent about the work they do. It also means you can make informed decisions about where to take your child for safe, successful care.
When looking at the data for heart surgery results, it’s important to recognize that this data presents only a small part of the larger picture. This data is an average of all patients and does not take into account a patient’s specific risk factors prior to surgery. And although surgical survival data is very important, there are many other outcomes, such as the need for repeat surgeries and quality of life, which are not measured in the data reported by STS.
Surgical volume
The data below — based on the most recent four years of data released by STS (ending December 2022) — demonstrates our surgical volume and the breakdown by patient age.
*Cardiopulmonary bypass and non-cardiopulmonary cardiovascular surgeries
*Cardiopulmonary bypass and non-cardiopulmonary cardiovascular surgeries
Specific surgeries
Using data from the STS, we’ve reported our outcomes for 10 “benchmark” operations. These surgeries represent a range of common surgeries as well as some of the most complex surgeries.
For each benchmark operation, we’ve reported survival rates as well as the average length of stay following surgery. Length of stay is an often-overlooked sign of excellence for overall medical management. Shorter stays mean that your child is recovering faster, with fewer side effects.
To make the information more helpful, we’ve included a comparison of our results to the national average based on the most recent data released by STS (four years of data ending December 2022).
