Pediatric Congenital Heart Conditions

The Michigan Congenital Heart Center at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital performs over 850 cardiac operations each year -- from the most common to the most complex. As an international referral center for children with complex congenital heart problems, Michigan Congenital Heart Center is the second largest congenital heart program in the United States and our specialists maintain a 95% survival rate. U.S. News & World Report ranks C.S. Mott Children's Hospital 4th in the nation in children’s heart care and heart surgery.

Our goal is to provide the best possible care for infants, children and adolescents with all forms of congenital and acquired heart disease, as well as adults with congenital heart disease. We achieve this goal through the expertise of our internationally known faculty combined with the state-of-the-art facilities and resources of the University of Michigan Health System. We strive always to deliver the highest quality of care by skilled, and knowledgeable pediatric heart specialists guided by respect for our patients and families.

Discover the Michigan Difference:

• Experience matters. We perform more cardiac surgical and open-heart procedures than nearly every other program in the nation. Research shows that this experience is a key determinant of quality of care.
• Important discoveries and bold new approaches to care. U-M physicians revolutionized the surgical approach to treating Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. We are now a world leader in caring for children with HLHS. We are working on new medicines, procedures, processes and equipment that will make a world of difference for congenital heart patients around the world. The National Institutes of Health applauds our work so much that we are one of the nation’s best-funded research programs.
• Each patient is an individual. We develop an individual care plan for each and every patient. Our internationally recognized team of cardiac surgeons, pediatric cardiologists, cardiac nurses, anesthesiologists and allied health professionals specializes in caring for this special group of patients.
• Focused on kids being kids. We were the first pediatric hospital in the country to create a Child Life program where children can still be children even though they are sick.

For adult patients:

Visit our Adult Congenital Heart Program online .