Colorado's Adult & Teen Congenital Heart Program (CATCH)

Director's Description

Colorado's Adult and Teen Congenital Heart Program (CATCH) is a multi-institutional program with 2 core hospitals (Children's Hospital Colorado and UC Health) providing care to our CATCH patients. We currently have 7 AHCD trained physicians, as well as 2 advanced practice providers (one at each hospital) and 5 ACHD dedicated nurse coordinators (3 at Children's, 2 at UC Health), 2 ACHD dedicated social workers (one at each hospital), and 4 congenital heart surgeons, in addition to electrophysiologists, interventionalists, and MRI/CT specialists all with special training in congenital heart disease. We have regular ACHD specific multi-disciplinary conferences where we discuss, as a group, which of the 2 hospitals offers the best location for invasive treatments (surgery or interventional catheterization) based on patient needs, regardless of age. We offer clinics most weeks, 5 days a week at both hospitals, in addition to offering outreach clinics in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Loveland, Colorado; Grand Junction, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Casper, Wyoming; and Billings, Montana. We also offer telemedicine clinic visits for patients living in New Mexico.