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Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center

Whether your child has a simple heart condition or one that’s highly complex, you’ve come to the right place. We look forward to caring for your child and your family. Few heart centers offer every type of specialty and subspecialty heart care that’s available. We do.

We have more experience treating pediatric heart disorders than many hospitals in the country, and we are successful at repairing the most challenging heart defects, no matter how rare. We treat children of all ages, including young adults, and some of our treatments and surgeries are not available anywhere else in the world. Our Stanford spirit drives us to always improve and never give up. We collaborate, innovate, and think outside the box to help your child achieve as close to normal heart function as possible and pursue their life goals to the best of their ability.

Simply put, we go further for your child to give them the best shot at leading a happy, long life.

Our Services

We provide specialized services for children with a variety of heart conditions.

Conditions We Treat

We treat children and adults with a range of heart conditions present at birth or developed after birth.

Our Care Teams

Meet our care teams who treat children with heart disease or heart defects.

Our Outcomes

Learn how our pediatric heart surgeons successfully treat some of the most critically ill children.

Research and Innovation

Turning pediatric heart research into innovative patient treatments or preventive techniques.

Our Locations

Contact and location information for the Betty Irene Moore Heart Center.

Caring for children from around the world

At Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, we care for children from around the globe. Our young heart patients benefit from advanced patient-centered care, multidisciplinary research, and groundbreaking innovations. Learn more about why we’re the right provider to care for your child’s heart condition.

Betty Irene Moore Children's Heart Center Patient Stories

Small Baby With PDA Thrives After Having a Constellation of Symptoms at Just 6 Days Old
How Stanford Medicine Children’s Health turned challenges into triumphs for a newborn with heart defects.

Newborn Undergoes Lifesaving Open Heart Surgery at 3 Days Old
Hospital and network cardiology teams act quickly to save the life of a newborn with congenital heart disease.

Baby Born With Half a Heart Inspires Mom to Change Her Life
Stanford Children’s congenital heart surgeons save newborn with serious single ventricle heart defect.

Why choose Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s Heart Center for your child’s heart care

We achieve impressive outcomes even when the odds are against us, helping change lives. At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we see patients with a wide range of heart conditions, but many of our heart patients are some of the sickest in the world. Despite the complexity of our patients’ heart disorders, our heart surgery outcomes are remarkable. Our cardiologists and heart surgeons have earned a reputation not only for caring for some of the most challenging heart patients but also for repairing heart defects in preemies and very low-birth-weight babies. And to some of our most medically complex patients, we offer another chance when they think they have none left. In other words, we’re helping improve children’s heart function and quality of life so that they can go back to being a child.

We use research-driven treatments and innovations to solve the unsolvable. At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, we blend research and innovations in everything we do to give every child with heart disease the best chance at a full life. By collaborating across our campus, we bring together great minds. We partner with Stanford Medicine researchers to design new studies or test our clinical observations, with engineers to create or repurpose new heart devices, and with computer scientists to develop heart models to better understand your child’s unique heart. Our collaboration is raw power for creating new and better solutions for treating heart disease.

Our heart doctors are deeply specialized. Our heart care teams are not just specialized, they’re hyperspecialized. That way, your child receives care from someone with profound knowledge and experience in his or her particular heart condition. Our care spans the entire spectrum of heart disease, from fetal heart disorders to highly complicated congenital heart disease manifestations in young adults and adults. At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, we see a large number of heart patients, and that’s one of the reasons why we have deep expertise in every heart condition, no matter how rare.