Why choose our PACT program for patient referrals

The Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Therapies (PACT) program team at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health manages heart failure and heart transplant patients in a single program. Doing so empowers our doctors to provide the right care at exactly the right time. This setup, combined with the team’s multidisciplinary expertise and long tradition of taking care of children with heart failure and heart transplantation needs, translates into outstanding outcomes for even the most complex cardiac patients.

The Stanford team performed its first successful pediatric heart transplant more than 35 years ago. Since then, the PACT program team has performed more than 500 heart transplants and more than 200 ventricular assist device (VAD) implantations, making the PACT program at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health one of the highest-volume heart transplant centers in the United States. What’s best? The PACT program at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health exists within the Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center—one of the leading pediatric heart centers in the United States—which enables the PACT team to offer patients a wide range of alternatives to heart transplantation. Let’s partner on providing children with heart failure and heart transplants the best possible outcomes.