Nemours has two state-of-the-art children’s
hospitals in addition to our outpatient locations
in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
As a system, we offer pediatric primary, urgent,
specialty and hospital care.

Dictionary: Interstage Period

Interstage period: When a baby has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), three surgeries are needed to fix the problems. The time between the first surgery and the second surgery is called the interstage period. During this period, careful daily monitoring of the baby's health is very important.