Kentucky Children's Heart Center

We've created the region's leading comprehensive care center for children with heart disease.

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Learn about the KCH Congenital Heart Clinic. (PDF, 176 KB)

A full-service pediatric heart center

This full-service center provides inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and treatment services for children with congenital or acquired heart disease. Treatment also includes patients who have advanced into adulthood, providing the consistency of comprehensive care important to positive long-term outcomes.

KCH is the only hospital that offers this level of care, including the only Level III NICU in the eastern half of Kentucky. More information

Heart Center resources

Appointments or more information:
859-257-1000 or
1-800-333-8874

Pediatric Cardiology
The cardiology team excels in the management of complex congenital heart defects and acquired heart disease from fetus to adult

Fetal Echocardiography
The Kentucky Children's Heart Center team can identify virtually all complex congenital heart disease in fetuses, some as young as 18-20 weeks.

Cardiothoracic Surgery
The Cardiothoracic Surgery (CT) team specializes in early correction or complete repair of single ventricle heart defects and a wide range of congenital heart diseases.

Pediatric Anesthesiology
Kentucky Children's Heart Center offers the only team of specially trained pediatric anesthesiologists in the eastern half of the Commonwealth

Pediatric Critical Care
Our pediatric intensivists provide expertise in the medical management of seriously ill pediatric cardiac patients, including the critical recovery phase following surgery.

Digital Communication
Using links to several outside hospitals, Kentucky Children's Heart Center specialists can interpret echocardiograms from remote nurseries and help on-site medical teams manage their patients.

Heart Center important information


Kentucky Children's Heart Center Brochure Find out what's special about the region's leading comprehensive care center for children with heart disease. Read brochure (PDF, 258 KB)	Perinatal Cardiology Program Some women are at increased risk for giving birth to a baby with congenital heart disease and need the advanced services of our perinatal cardiology program. Read brochure (PDF, 211 KB)