Children with heart conditions in southwest Iowa will soon be able to receive high-quality pediatric specialty care closer to home. Officials with the Cass County Health System say Children’s Hospital & Medical Center will offer a pediatric cardiology clinic quarterly at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, beginning Friday, Nov. 13th.

The new cardiac outreach clinic will be Children’s first in Iowa. Children’s cardiology team also provides outreach clinics in Rapid City and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and in the following Nebraska communities: Columbus, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, Lincoln, Norfolk and North Platte. Pediatric cardiologist Robert Spicer, M.D., Children’s clinical service chief of Cardiology, will travel to Atlantic to see patients, along with a cardiology nurse and cardiac sonographer. The partnership between Children’s in Omaha and Cass County Health in Atlantic was designed to make care more convenient and accessible for area families.

Beyond the convenience and familiarity the visiting specialists provide families, outreach clinics allow Children’s the opportunity to foster better working relationships with referring doctors and hospitals. Children’s Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Heart Center offers the region’s largest and most comprehensive pediatric and adult congenital cardiac and cardiac surgical care, including expertise in pediatric heart transplantation and adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). Children’s could potentially see adults with ACHD at its Atlantic clinic, as well.

To make an appointment in Atlantic, please call 712-243-7590.