ScalpelRepairing congenital hearts, removing tumors, reconstructing airways — in patients who weigh less than a house cat. Every number here is a child who went home.
Clinical Outcomes
Numbers drawn from 27 years of operative records and independent audit. Not marketing estimates.
Independently audited by the Pediatric Surgical Quality Alliance, 2025
The numbers explain themselves.
We just make sure you see them.
The national benchmark sits at 3.1%. Our rate is not an accident — it is the result of every surgeon on this team having performed this specific procedure a minimum of 300 times before they operate without supervision.
Parents ask us what that means in real terms. It means the average child in our care leaves the ICU in 3.2 days. The national median is 7.6 days. Every hour matters when the patient is 11 weeks old.
Neonates are not small children. Their physiology, pain response, and surgical tolerance are categorically different. This number means our team has learned — in the only way that counts — how to operate in the most unforgiving window of human life.
The surgeon who closes the incision is the same one who answers the phone at 3 a.m. when a parent notices the drain isn't draining. Continuity is not a courtesy — in pediatric surgery it is a clinical variable.
The physicians who send us
their most difficult cases.
"I have referred 34 patients to this practice over 11 years. Not one family has come back to me with a complaint. Two have come back to name their second child after Dr. Hargrove. That is the only metric that matters to me."
"When I have a 900-gram neonate with a tracheoesophageal fistula and I need a surgeon in the room within the hour, there is exactly one number I call. The response time, the calm in the OR, the outcome — every time, without exception."
"I trained at three major academic centers before joining private practice. I have never encountered a pediatric surgical team with lower ego and higher precision. They operate like they have something to prove every single time."
The surgeon is ready.
Are you?
A surgical consultation is not a commitment. It is a conversation with a surgeon who has performed this procedure hundreds of times, and who will tell you — plainly — what your child needs.
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You'll be taken to our HIPAA-compliant patient portal to complete a brief intake form. A surgical coordinator will follow up within 48 hours.
Request a Surgical Consultation →Or call our surgical coordinator directly:(312) 744-0019