Kansas City Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Saint Luke's and Children's Mercy

Director's Description

Kansas City Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program is an ACHA accredited comprehensive care center in Kansas City, Missouri that provides an infrastructure to transition young adults to adult cardiology, welcome newly diagnosed adults, and adults with established congenital heart conditions to health care that emulates quality and continuity of care. The program is a collaboration of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and Children’s Mercy Kansas City. These two historical icons in Kansas City, share a collaborative 27-year history of caring for patients with congenital heart conditions.
The programs commitment is to minimize fragmented care, improve quality of life, and contribute to the evidence-based development of best practice guidelines for those with congenital heart conditions. Our patients benefit from talented board-certified ACHD cardiologists and team members who are certified in numerous subspecialty areas with experience in managing the special needs of adult congenital heart patients.
This team offers focused subspecialty care encompassing:
• Heart Conditions in Pregnancy
• Preconception counseling
• Valve and structural intervention
• Advanced imaging (Echo/CT/MRI/Nuclear)
• Complex intervention
• Electrophysiology
• Pulmonary
• Adult internal medicine
• Heart failure and heart transplant
• Hepatology specialists
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Cardiovascular outcomes research