Pediatric Heart Center
Why choose us for your child’s heart care?
Pediatric Services
Pediatric Heart Center
Surgical and minimally invasive treatments
In addition to offering world-class pediatric cardiothoracic surgery in a Level I Children’s Surgery Center, we offer cardiac catheterization, a non-surgical procedure which can treat many heart conditions using catheters — thin, flexible, narrow tubes threaded through blood vessels to the heart. Cardiac catheterization can be used to make repairs, like closing holes in the heart muscle or removing obstructions from the blood vessels, to name a few.
We also offer pediatric cardiac electrophysiology, which uses radiofrequency arblation to treat cardiac arrhythmias, disrupting areas of the heart that are the source of the electrical irregularities.
Family-friendly, healing environment
Close nursing attention
Our Pediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit has a 2-to-1 patient-to-nurse ratio, and critical care medicine physicians are on site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Larger, single-patient rooms enhance family-centered care
A sleeping sofa and a chair in each room enable family members to remain at their child’s beside around the clock. Explore our facilities to learn more.
Stress-relieving activities
Children who are well enough have access to an activity room with music and art and play therapy provided by child life specialists, who aim to help relieve the stress and anxiety of hospitalization for kids.
Early diagnosis of heart defects
Our fetal cardiologists use state-of-the-art technology that can detect congenital heart defects before the birth of your child.
We offer families precision-based in utero diagnosis and heart care services in our pediatric cardiology clinics located in Sacramento, Stockton and Roseville.
Helping to influence national standards
National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative
The Pediatric Heart Center is proud to be part of the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPC-QIC). This group of 58 medical institutions collaborates on quality improvement tools and methods to improve the health outcomes of care for children with cardiovascular disease, and to enhance communication between clinicians and patients.
Referrals and appointments
Clinic locations and appointments
Families have access to our full-service Pediatric Heart Center along with the added convenience of six outreach clinic locations.
For referring physicians, please call our patient referrals phone number at 916-734-3456 for assistance with pediatric cardiology services or use on our online referral form.
Pediatric Heart Center - main clinic location
77 Cadillac Drive, Suite 101
Sacramento, CA
Sacramento clinic appointments
Outreach clinics
We have 6 convenient locations in the surrounding communities.
Outreach clinic appointments
Awards and recognitions
Ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals
U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital among the best in neonatology, nephrology, orthopedics*, pediatric & adolescent behavioral health, and pulmonology & lung surgery. (*Together with Shriners Children’s Northern California)
Magnet Program Designation
Nursing excellence at UC Davis Medical Center again receives national recognition.
Proud member of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) raises funds and awareness for 170 member hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the country. UC Davis Children’s Hospital is one of only 9 CMN hospitals in California.
Re-verified level I Children’s Surgery Center
Our hospital is verified as a level I Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons. Level I centers have children’s surgeons in every discipline, with pediatric anesthesiologists and operating rooms available 24 hours a day.
A national research network
The nationwide organization of care centers unites clinicians, researchers and families to help care for kids with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
Training the next generation of child-life specialists
The Association of Child Life Professionals accredited UC Davis’ Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy internship program where interns train in medical play, surgical and procedural preparations and more.
Beacon Award for Excellence
The Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recognizes hospital units that employ evidence-based practices to improve patient and family outcomes.
Highly rated maternity care
Recognized for expertise and commitment to quality care for vaginal and cesarean section deliveries; better overall patient satisfaction; and a lower percentage of early elective deliveries.
Center of Excellence – Obstetric anesthesia service
The SOAP Center of Excellence designation sets a benchmark for expected care that helps improve national standards by providing quality metrics for institutions that offer obstetric anesthesia care.
Hope for families with fetal syndrome diagnoses
A parent-founded nonprofit organization, providing information for families facing fetal syndrome diagnoses.
A baby-friendly hospital
The highly prestigious Baby-Friendly designation by Baby-Friendly USA demonstrates adherence to the highest standards of breast¬feeding care built on evidence-based practices.
Community emergency preparedness
UC Davis Children’s Hospital cardiac emergency preparedness program reaches out to schools to ensure that staff, students and families are trained on how to perform CPR and use automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
Recognized for excellence in life support
UC Davis Medical Center has been recognized for exceptional commitment to evidence-based processes and quality measures, training, patient satisfaction, and clinical care.