Inpatient Units

Inpatient care for pediatric cardiology patients and cardiac surgery patients takes place entirely within the Stanford Medical Center. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is part of Stanford Medical Center, and LPCH is connected to Stanford Hospital and Clinics on all levels. Labor and Delivery and the newborn nurseries are in SHC which is directly adjacent to the Neonatal Intensive Care unit in LPCH. Our operating rooms are in LPCH, as are the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Newborns and infants diagnosed with heart disease are admitted to the NICU and often come by helicopter which lands on the roof of LPCH. Post-operative cardiac surgical patients are cared for in the CVICU, move to an Intermediate Care unit on 3-West, and eventually move out to the regular cardiology ward on 3-West. Medical patients are cared for in the NICU, PICU or on 3-West as appropriate. Support services such as the echocardiography laboratory, pediatric radiology and the inpatient pharmacy are all within 2 floors of the in-patient units.