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Cardiac Center, Delaware Valley
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We offer complete pediatric heart care at our Cardiac Center, Delaware Valley.
Exceptional Results in Delaware
Our team includes top specialists in their fields. You can trust us to safely perform procedures and surgeries needed to diagnose and treat heart conditions — and our success rates, or outcomes, prove it.</p>\r\n<p>We share outcomes, like performance, survival rates, and complication rates with other heart programs that do too. This helps patient families see how programs are performing on a national level.</p>\r\n<p>We also track certain metrics internally and compare them to nationally published averages. We do this to continuously improve and provide the highest-quality, safest care possible.</p>\r\n<p>Our outcomes are among the many reasons doctors and families come to us for second opinions and choose us for the most complex procedures. We’re proud to share them with you.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-fd12823a0c class=cmp-text>
Our team includes top specialists in their fields. You can trust us to safely perform procedures and surgeries needed to diagnose and treat heart conditions — and our success rates, or outcomes, prove it.
We share outcomes, like performance, survival rates, and complication rates with other heart programs that do too. This helps patient families see how programs are performing on a national level.
We also track certain metrics internally and compare them to nationally published averages. We do this to continuously improve and provide the highest-quality, safest care possible.
Our outcomes are among the many reasons doctors and families come to us for second opinions and choose us for the most complex procedures. We’re proud to share them with you.
Pediatric Heart Surgery Outcomes
91´óÉñ Children’s surgeons are experts in performing heart and chest surgery to treat congenital heart disease (conditions kids are born with).</p>\r\n<p>The Society for Thoracic Surgery (STS) is a national organization that tracks congenital heart surgeries and sorts them into five categories, based on complexity. The group then determines a program’s expected survival rate for each category. The expected survival rate is a calculation based on a particular mix of children treated,and national results tracked over time.</p>\r\n<p>Hospitals and surgeons voluntarily report this information to the STS, which shares it publicly.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-82b07c8ed7 class=cmp-text>
91´óÉñ Children’s surgeons are experts in performing heart and chest surgery to treat congenital heart disease (conditions kids are born with).
The Society for Thoracic Surgery (STS) is a national organization that tracks congenital heart surgeries and sorts them into five categories, based on complexity. The group then determines a program’s expected survival rate for each category. The expected survival rate is a calculation based on a particular mix of children treated,and national results tracked over time.
Hospitals and surgeons voluntarily report this information to the STS, which shares it publicly.