Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Outcomes
Learning your child needs heart surgery can be overwhelming. It’s important to find a pediatric heart center you can trust. At UNC Children’s, we take pride in caring for highly complex patients throughout the state of North Carolina and beyond. We strive to save every child and to stand by families through very challenging circumstances. Our highly dedicated team is committed to continuous quality improvement as a cornerstone of our program.
Our surgeons at UNC Children's have been successfully performing complex cardiac surgeries and caring for these children for decades- always with an eye toward providing the best care possible for our patients. Our families receive comprehensive, compassionate, family-centered care from UNC Children's board-certified specialists.
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) provides a database platform to benchmark survival rates of various congenital heart surgeries. To date, there have been more than 600,000 procedures recorded on the platform from centers across North America. The STS provides detailed explanations of its methodology for determining outcomes for congenital heart surgery. The STS Public Reporting website displays publically reported data tables from participating hospitals.
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