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IT'S BEEN ALMOST two yea rs since University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland part- nered with Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus to form the Congenital Heart Collaborative (CHC). Established in 2015, the innovative collaboration provides the complete continuum of care from the fetus to the senior citizen. It gives patients and their families direct access to one of the most extensive and experienced heart teams, skilled in the delivery of quality clinical services, novel therapies and a seamless continuum of care. "Rea lly, our goa l is to never have a patient from Nor thern Ohio — from Toledo to Youngstown — have to leave the area to find experienced cardiac care," says Christopher Snyder, MD, Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. "Congenital hea r t disea se requires a lifetime of specia lized care. And that's what the Collaborative ožers." The CHC is co-directed by Timothy Felt es, M D, FACC, Div i sion Ch ief, Cardiolog y, at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Mark Galantowicz, MD, FACS, Division Chief, Cardiothoracic Surger y at Nationwide. The two a re also Co-Directors of the Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, currently ranked ninth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (USN&WR) for pediatric heart and heart surgery care, and Professors at Ohio State Universit y Col lege of Medicine. Rounding out the Collaborative's leadership team are Eric Devaney, MD, Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UH Rainbow, Alexandre Rotta, MD, Division Chief, Pediatric Critical Care at Rainbow, and Dr. Snyder. All three are Professors at Case Western Reser ve University School of Medicine. ONE PROGRAM, TWO CAMPUSES The Col laborative's physicia n tea m combines the expertise of more than 20 pediatric cardiologists, surgeons and anesthesiologists from both UH Rainbow's and Nationwide Children's Heart Centers. It a lso includes neonata l intensivists from UH Rainbow 's NICU, currently ranked fourth in the nation by USN≀ maternal fetal medicine specialists from UH MacDonald Women's Hospital; and adult cardiologists and surgeons from UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute. R a inbow 's NICU ha s a 96 percent sur viva l rate — one of the best in the U.S., according to Dr. Snyder. "And, the maternal fetal medicine specialists from UH MacDonald Women's Hospital are also nationally recognized," he says. "They provide prenatal diagnosis, fetal interven- tion, and a seamless transition from fetal to neonatal care." Eric Devaney, MD, FACS, Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Martin Bocks, MD, FACC, are shown here in the UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Suite. The Congenital Heart Collaborative: BY ALEX LANDERS Oering a Lifetime of Specialized Care PHOTO © SMITHBERGER PHOTOGRAPHY, NORTH CANTON, OH 0 6C O V E R S T O R Y