Heart Center

Refer a Patient to the Heart Center

Our experts have extensive experience caring for children with all kinds of heart disease - from the most common to the most complex.

Comprehensive Care for All Heart Conditions

We offer treatment from before birth through young adulthood for all heart problems.

Superior Outcomes

Our outcomes and survival rates are among the best in the nation.

Locations and Contact Information

Locations

Seattle Children’s Heart Center teams provide care at 12 locations around Washington state and at clinics throughout Alaska and Montana. You can find information below on where to fax your referral, and who to call if you have questions.

Referrals and scheduling

Seattle, Bellevue and Northwest Washington clinics: 206-985-3121 (referrals/fax); 206-987-2080, Option 4 (phone)
South Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula clinics: 253-682-1455 (referrals/fax); 253-272-1812 (phone)
Eastern Washington clinics:
- Tri-Cities and Walla Walla: 509-375-9059 (referrals/fax); 509-582-1750 (phone)
- Yakima Children’s Village: 509-574-6935 (referrals/fax); 509-574-3238 (phone)
Wenatchee and North Central Washington: 509-662-9284 (referrals/fax); 509-662-9266 (phone)
Alaska clinics: 907-339-1994 (referrals/fax); 907-339-1945 (phone)
Montana clinics:
- Helena, Great Falls and Havre: 406-452-5262 (referrals/fax); 406-771-3223 (phone)
- Bozeman: 460-414-4595 (referrals/fax); 406-414-4570 (phone)

Provider-to-provider communication

For urgent clinical questions, defined as a clinical question that requires immediate attention due to its potential impact on patient health or safety but is not life-threatening, call our Provider-to-Provider line at 206-987-7777 or 877-985-4637 (toll-free) to speak to our on-call cardiologist.
If you are directing or transporting a patient to the Emergency Department or Urgent Care, please call Mission Control at 206-987-8899 or 866-987-8899 (toll-free).
For clinical support of inpatient infants and children with cardiac needs at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Overlake Medical Center, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett or the University of Washington Medical Center, call our Puget Sound Regional Cardiology Consult Service at 206-987-5760.
For non-urgent clinical questions, please see information below on submitting an eConsult. Providers outside the state of Washington do not have access to eConsults and may call the Provider-to-Provider line and indicate they have a non-urgent clinical question for our on-call cardiology provider.
For co-management questions related to an existing problem for a shared patient, please send an InBasket message via EpicCare Link.
If you would like to have one of our Heart Center team members provide in-person or virtual education with your clinic, please contact our Physician Relations team to coordinate.

How to Refer a Patient

We encourage use of our New Appointment Request Form (PDF or DOC) or submitting a referral via EpicCare Link. For patients in Alaska, please use our Pediatric Cardiology of Alaska NARF (PDF, DOC). Please complete these forms in their entirety to ensure timely processing of your patient’s referral. If your clinic uses its own referral form, please ensure all fields listed in the NARF are included in your documentation.

If you are referring for testing only, such as an ECG or echocardiogram, please note it on the referral, i.e., write “ECG Only” or “Echo Only”.

EpicCare Link: SCCN Users and Seattle Children’s Badge Holders

EpicCare Link: All Others

No pre-referral workup is required for most conditions. If you have already done a work-up (ECG, Holter monitor, echocardiogram), please fax the information with the NARF. If imaging studies (CT, MRI, X-rays) have been done, please upload to PowerShare or mail disc to:

Seattle Children’s Heart Center
MS RC.2.820
PO Box 5371
Seattle, WA 98145-5005

If your patient is coming to one of our regional or outreach clinics, please send the disc there instead.

For our most current wait times by specialty and location, see our Access Dashboard.

View Seattle Children’s Access Dashboard

Additional referral information

We see patients up to age 21. However, at this time, referrals for Cardiogenetics for patients 18 and older are being forwarded to the UW Medicine Heart Institute.
Patients need a new referral if they have not been seen by the Heart Center in the last 2 years, except for patients we have asked to follow up in 3 to 5 years.
Heart murmur referrals: Please consider sharing the heart murmur information for families found on our website. It may offer reassurance before the family’s visit.
Hypertension referrals will be directed to Nephrology.
Hyperlipidemia referrals will be directed to Endocrinology.
Concussion referrals will be directed to our Concussion Program, Neurology or Rehabilitation Medicine unless there is a concern about a cardiac issue being present.
Referrals for syncope/presyncope (fainting/dizziness) may be redirected by our intake nurses to Neurology or Otolaryngology. Our decision trees are below. Resources to assist PCPs managing syncope and dizziness are found below in “Resources for Providers.”
- Syncope referral algorithm (to schedule in Cardiology vs. Neurology) (PDF)
- Dizziness referral algorithm (to schedule in Cardiology vs. Neurology vs. Otolaryngology) (PDF)
ECG (EKG)
- Ordering a test: Submit a NARF (new appointment request form) clearly stating “ECG only” along with diagnosis or indication. There is no facility fee.
- Interpretation: We offer ECG interpretation to community providers in Washington, Alaska and Montana, which includes a reading of the ECG but not guidance on management of the patient. Learn more.
Echocardiogram
- Ordering a test: Submit a NARF (new appointment request form) clearly stating “Echocardiogram only” along with diagnosis or indication. There is no facility fee.
- Ordering a fetal echocardiogram: Use the Fetal Care Appointment Request Form (PDF) (DOC) and see the referral guidelines for our Fetal Diagnosis Program.
- Interpretation: We offer tele-echo interpretations to facilities in Washington, Alaska and Montana. Learn more.

eConsult Information

An eConsult is a non-urgent asynchronous electronic consultation request initiated by a community provider to a Seattle Children’s specialist, submitted using EpicCare Link. It allows community providers to receive timely, efficient care guidance on lower-complexity and data-oriented clinical questions that may not require an in-person evaluation.

Our Heart Center offers eConsults for the following conditions:

Abnormal ECG
Chest pain
Family history of cardiac disease
Palpitations/tachycardia
Syncope/presyncope
Unspecified clinical question

For more information on eConsults, including helpful resources and instructions on obtaining access to EpicCare Link, please visit our EpicCare Link and eConsults page.

What Your Patients Can Expect

Once a referral is processed, the schedulers will contact the family via text to call and schedule the appointment. For non-urgent appointments, please allow 72 hours for us to process the referral.
Initial visits and most follow-up cardiology appointments are a minimum of 40 minutes. Initial appointments include vital signs and an ECG. If an echocardiogram is required as part of the evaluation, it will add at least another hour to the visit.

Resources for Community Providers

We’ve provided resources below to assist you in managing patients in the primary care setting and knowing when to refer. To suggest additional resources from Seattle Children’s that would be useful to primary care providers, please email [email protected].