Congenital Heart Surgery for Infants (Norwood Procedure)

The Norwood procedure is an open heart surgery that re-constructs a baby’s underdeveloped aorta, and inserts a shunt to direct blood to the lungs.

This measure assesses the following:

• A hospital's experience performing the procedure against Leapfrog's hospital volume standard of 8 procedures per year and
• Whether the hospital’s process for privileging its surgeons includes requiring the surgeon to meet Leapfrog's annual surgeon volume standard of 5 procedures per year

View Leapfrog's minimum hospital and surgeon volume standards here.

Reporting Period 

• Surveys submitted prior to September 1: 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
• Surveys (re)submitted on or after September 1: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024 

Patients Included in the Measure

• Inpatients (Patients who are admitted to the hospital for at least one overnight stay)
• Children