Children's Hospital Los Angeles Named First West Coast Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute® by The Healthcare Colloquium

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

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"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."

About Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital Los Angeles (http://www.chla.org) has been named the best children's hospital on the West Coast and among the top five in the nation for clinical excellence with its selection to the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. A leader in the field since the 1930s, the Heart Failure Program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles provides multidisciplinary care to children with severe heart failure. They have managed more than 8,000 visits and have performed more than 120 heart transplants since 1993—making the cardiology program one of the largest and most successful in the nation. Children's Hospital Los Angeles is ranked 7th by the U.S. World News Report in pediatric hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery. Children's Hospital Los Angeles is located at 4650 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027.

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As a hospital membership organization based in Columbus, Ohio, The Healthcare Colloquium (http://colloquiumhealth.com) is comprised of a wide range of member hospitals with a common shared passion: pre-eminence in caring for those with critical illnesses. The Healthcare Colloquium provides an active forum and solutions for the exchange of practices and insights on topics ranging from quality improvement to data analytics and decision support. 

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