Case Study: Children's Mercy Hospitals reduces interstage mortality from 20% to 0 for high‑risk single‑ventricle infants with Cerner's CHAMP home‑monitoring solution

Children’s Mercy receives ANCC 2016 Magnet Prize® sponsored by Cerner for its life-saving home monitoring program

Children’s Mercy, a major pediatric medical center in Kansas City, confronted high interstage mortality among high‑risk single ventricle (SV) infants — a period between the first and second surgeries when nationally 5–20% of these babies do not survive and their pilot center experienced 20% mortality.

They launched CHAMP (Cardiac High Acuity Monitoring Program), a tablet‑based, encrypted home‑monitoring app that sends parent‑reported physiologic data and video directly into the EHR so nurse coordinators can intervene sooner. Since May 2014 CHAMP reduced interstage mortality at the pilot site from 20% to 0% (all 62 monitored infants survived), earned the ANCC 2016 Magnet Prize sponsored by Cerner, and is being adopted or considered by numerous other centers.

Children's Mercy Hospitals

Lori Erickson

High Acuity Monitoring