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Infants and children may have unusual heart defects or problems that require surgery to fix. Specially trained teams of doctors, nurses, and technicians are needed to treat these problems. This indicator reports the total number of many different types of heart surgeries performed by surgeons in a hospital on patients under age 18.
Instructions on interpreting this graph

State total in cases—213
Threshold—This indicator has substantial published evidence suggesting that providers performing more than 100 procedures have better patient outcomes.

Technical information on the relationship between the indicator and quality of health care service—Go to the AHRQ detailed evidence on Pediatric Heart Surgery Volume HTML.

GREEN BAR — Hospitals which have met these minimum thresholds and generally are associated with better patient outcomes.
YELLOW BARHospitals which have not met these minimum thresholds.

  2001 threshhold is 100 0
  Boulder 

  Boulder Community Hosp.

           
  Canon City

  St. Thomas More Hosp.

                 
  Cortez

  Southwest Memorial Hosp.

                 
  Colorado Springs

  Memorial Hosp.

  Penrose Hosp.

     
  Denver Metro

  Denver  

Childrens Hosp.
136  
           

  Denver

Denver Health Med. Cntr. less than 5                
  Littleton Littleton Adventist Hosp.        

  Wheat
  Ridge

Lutheran Med. Cntr.        

  Aurora

Med. Cntr. of Aurora-South      

  Thornton

North Suburban Med. Cntr.                  

  Brighton

Platte Valley Med. Cntr.                  

  Denver  

Porter Adventist Hosp. less than 5        

  Denver  

Presbyterian St. Lukes
74  
         

  Denver  

Rose Med. Cntr.          

  Denver  

St. Anthony Central Hosp.            

  Westminster

St. Anthony North Hosp.                  

  Denver  

St. Joseph Hosp.    

  Englewood

Swedish Med. Cntr.              

  Denver  

University Hosp.    
  Durango

  Mercy Med. Cntr.

               
  Fort Collins

  Poudre Valley Hosp.

     

  Valley View Hosp.

                 
  Grand Junction
  Hilltop Rehabilitation Cntr.        

  St. Marys Hosp. and Med. Cntr.

less than 5        
  Greeley

  North Colorado Med. Cntr.

           
  Longmont

  Longmont United Hosp.

                 
  Louisville

  Avista Adventist Hosp.

                 
  Loveland

  McKee Med. Cntr.

               
  Montrose

  Montrose Memorial Hosp.

                 
  Pueblo

  Parkview Med. Cntr.

     

  St. Mary Corwin Med. Cntr.

               
  Salida

  Heart of the Rockies Regional Med. Cntr.

                 
  Steamboat Springs                    
  Yampa Valley Med. Cntr.                  
  Sterling                     
  Sterling Regional MedCntr.                  
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