When your child is diagnosed with a heart problem, it can be overwhelming and scary.  We are here to help you understand the problem, how it affects your child and how it can be treated.

A regional leader in pediatric cardiac care, the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Children's Heart Center is a partnership between Wolfson Children's Hospital and the University of Florida/Jacksonville, offering diagnosis and treatment of infants, children and young adults with congenital and acquired heart disease. The Center serves Northeast and Central Florida, the panhandle and Southeast Georgia.

The Children's Heart Center provides care including prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects, neonatal and pediatric surgery for complex anomalies and interventional treatment of congenital heart disease to advanced treatment of cardiac rhythm disorder.

Our Mission

The mission of our Children's Heart Center is to make a difference in the lives of children through early diagnosis, cardiac intervention and treatment of birth defects, congenital anomalies and injury, improved recovery and, most importantly, extending and improving quality of life. We provide state-of-the-art care for infants, children, adolescents and adults with congenital and acquired heart problems. 

Areas of Expertise

• Pediatric cardiovascular surgeons perform approximately 185 heart surgeries on infants, children and adolescents each year.
• We are have subspecialty clinics that diagnose and treat a number of heart defects, including murmurs, chest pain and syncope, hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol) and hypertension (high blood pressure).
• Our new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory  was installed with the latest GE Healthcare digital technology.
• Our pediatric cardiologists include specialists in heart rhythm disturbances, treated by a specialists in pediatric clinical electrophysiology. Our Echocardiography Lab, with locations at Wolfson Children's Hospital and the outpatient lab located at 841 Prudential Drive, Suite 100, is accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories in three modalities: pediatric transthoracic, pediatric transesophageal and fetal echocardiography.
• Our arrhythmia clinic provides treatments that include cryotherapy and radiofrequency ablation to treat life-threatening heart arrythmias.
• Our pediatric cardiologists treat heart disease associated with Kawasaki disease in a subspecialty clinic.
• We place pacemakers and automatic inplantable cardiac defibrillators in children with heart rhythm disturbances in our cardiac cath lab.
• We offer an Adult Congenital Heart Clinic, treating conditions such as patent foramen ovale (PFO).