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Twenty-Five Years Post-Transplant, Jacques Remembers St. Louis Children's Hospital Experience

Kim Jacques recalls being a member of a very exclusive club as a teenager. Kim, who was 16 at the ...

Patient Stories

Special Patient Receives Special Care From Heart Center and Transplant Teams

Dale Robertson, born with a rare congenital heart defect, was among the first generation of patients to receive newly developed ...

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Caring for Young Hearts: MRIs for Children with Pacemakers and ICDs

St. Louis Children’s Hospital now offers “in-house” magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for children with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...

Departments

St. Louis Children’s Hospital Catheterization and Electrophysiology Labs Receive National Accreditation

St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s catheterization (cath) lab received accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), becoming among the first in ...

Patient Stories

Keeping Up With Nia

A rare heart condition doesn’t stop Nia Hughes from doing what she loves. ...

News

St. Louis Children's Ranks No. 1 Among Missouri Children's Hospitals

U.S. News & World Report has again ranked St. Louis Children’s Hospital-Washington University School of Medicine among America’s Best Children’s ...

News

Leap day babies! St. Louis Children's Hospital Employee Celebrate 7th Birthday

Elyse Dugo is a patient care technician at St. Louis Children's Hospital. One week from Saturday, she turns 7-years-old. ...

News

After Receiving Life-Saving Heart Transplant, Man Becomes Heart Nurse

Three years after getting a heart transplant, Nate Miller is back on the heart floor at St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...

News

STL Moms: A New Technology for CHD

One out of 100 babies are born with a heart defect in the United States each year. Dr. Avihu Gazit ...