CHLA achieves Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute designation

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) was honored by The Healthcare Colloquium as the first west coast pediatric hospital to achieve designation as an Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute®. This announcement was made following nearly a year of work and an in-depth onsite review earlier this month. CHLA joins five other pre-eminent pediatric hospitals who have achieved this accomplishment.

"The Healthcare Colloquium will benefit from the addition of Children's Hospital Los Angeles," said Dr. John Lynn Jefferies, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACC who served as the lead site reviewer and is The Healthcare Colloquium's national pediatric chair. "They are an outstanding clinical program that will enhance the care of pediatric heart failure patients for years to come."

"We are honored to be recognized by The Healthcare Colloquium as an Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute," said Dr. Frank F. Ing, MD, FAAP, FACC, FSCAI, chief of the Division of Cardiology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, co-director of the CHLA Heart Institute and professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. "Children's Hospital Los Angeles strives to provide top care to achieve the best outcomes to treat children with heart disease. Our admittance to this expert group of pediatric heart failure institutes demonstrates our commitment to innovative treatments and improving the lives of pediatric patients with heart failure."

The Healthcare Colloquium is the only accrediting body offering Pediatric Heart Failure Accreditation. The unique accreditation process builds on the member hospital's prior improvement experience leading to initial heart failure accreditation. Member hospitals work within four established domains of heart failure: Community, Hospital, Clinicians, and Science using The Healthcare Colloquium's continuum of care model that leads to:

• Integration of heart failure care, from antecedents to early diagnosis and advanced care
• Streamlined processes across the entire continuum of care beginning in the community
• Enabling individuals to participate in their own care with more independence and less hospitalization
• Collaboration with other Colloquium member hospitals across the country

"I would like to thank our CHLA heart failure team for its advancements and for working diligently with the Healthcare Colloquium reviewers," says Dr. Jondavid Menteer, MD, director of the CHLA Heart Failure Program, Division of Cardiology and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. "During our site review, the Colloquium voiced appreciation of our program's unique components, groundbreaking clinical services and research, and superb outcomes. Our team looks forward to collaborating with the Colloquium and its other Pediatric Heart Failure Institutes to advance heart failure and heart transplant care for children."