If your patient is in pediatric heart failure or has symptoms that may point to it, our specialists are available for:
- Consults
- Referrals
- Transport
Contact the Pediatric Heart Failure and Recovery Program
Referring physicians may contact the Heart Failure and Recovery Program at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at:
Phone: 412-692-5540
Fax: 412-692-5138
For critical care specialty transport, call our transport team — 24-hours a day, 7-days a week — at 412-692-5000.
Address:
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Heart Failure and Recovery Program
Faculty Pavilion, Floor 5
4401 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Heart Failure and Recovery Program Referral Checklist
For patient consults and referrals, please send a demographic and clinical summary to Children's Heart Failure and Recovery team.
The checklist below outlines the recommended information.
Demographic summary
Include the patient's:
- Name
- Date of birth
- Address
- Social Security Number
- Insurance (copy of insurance card, if available)
- Parent/guardian phone numbers (home and cell phones)
Clinical summary
- A summary report of your patient’s current clinical status and history.
- A list of current medications.
- Immunization records (if available).
- All recent lab studies.
- Operative reports from all prior heart surgeries.
- Relevant heart cath reports and images.
- Recent echo, EKG, CXR, and CT scan reports and images.
- Relevant ultrasound and electrophysiology reports.
- Any other subspecialist records involved in the child’s care.
Pediatric Heart Failure Patient Transport Service
If your patient needs a transfer to Children’s Hospital from another facility, we'll call up our specialized transport team. For children too sick for an outpatient evaluation, we offer expert facility-to-facility transfer of heart failure patients on ECMO and VADs.
To arrange critical care specialty transport, referring physicians can call Children's Transport Team at 412-692-5000. Our clinicians are on call 24/7 to handle all aspects of facility-to-facility transfers of patients in acute heart failure.
