Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute

Reviews

• BB

  Brittany Brockman

  Feb 28, 2026
  5.0
  After having our daughter on the feb 23rd and a cardio appt shortly after, I was very concerned. The doctor came in a listened to my daughter and answered all the questions I had. I didn’t feel rushed at all and felt comfortable during the whole appt. Def recommend her and her staff! They were all very kind from check in to exit. Thank you !!
• AW

  Angie Wagoner

  Feb 25, 2026
  5.0
  Cincinnati Children's Hospital gives the best care for my child. They are all so nice & listen to all your concerns. I feel confident we are at the right place when we go to this hospital.
• SB

  Sydney Bresch

  Jun 6, 2024
  5.0
  These amazing people saved my life more than I can account for! I am 29 and have seen Dr.Russel Hirsch for the past 22 years. I will continue to see him until one of us dies and I’ve had some very close calls. Also for Betsy, starting camp joyful hearts got our minds off this scary rid .
• RJ

  R J

  Dec 22, 2023
  2.0
  My daughter was having constant level 8 to 9 chest pain. She said it felt like she was being stabbed with hot knife repeatedly or that her heart was being squeezed or her chest was being compressed to the point she thought her ribs were breaking and she could not breathe. The pain would move around. Mostly on the upper left side of her chest but also to the upper right and lower left and right. It started out as waves of pain but became constant we would go to urgent care and primary care but chest xrays were normal, heart was normal, lungs were normal, ekgs normal. We were constantly being asked if she was anxious or having panic attacks or trying to avoid school. But the pain was real and pain medications did not help. We saw cardiology and they said chest pain is "normal" for teens and she needed to go back to school and just learn to live with level 8 to 9 pain. No referrals (other than to see a therapist), no suggestions, nothing about checking Vitamin D levels, or using TENS to help with the pain (on the back not the front), or costochondritis or hypermobility which can be checked at home with a few simple tests like bending over at the waist with the knees straight and see if you can put your palms on the floor or look online for other things you can check for hypermobility because there are different areas of the body it can affect. If you have hypermobility you can request a rheumatology appointment to get exam and learn more about this condition which is genetic and chronic and while it has some benefits it can also result in more pain. There is more information from the United Kingdom on costochondritis in female teens than here in the USA. 8 weeks of extreme pain. We were fortunate to find a pediatric chiropractor that provided some pain relief and identified curvature in the neck which was a contributing factor and is being fixed and showed us how to use the TENS and also offered dry needling and massage therapy. But acupuncture, based on studies in the UK, is what provides pain relief to the approximately 30% of female teenagers that have extreme chest pain. This information can be found online including the acupuncture treatment points that were used. Neuorology, after she developed daily pulsing headaches in addition to the chest pain from the stress of the chronic pain, immediately tripled her Vitamin D dose to help raise her Vitamin D levels faster but it takes weeks for that to take effect. If cardiology had given us any information at all on what to check instead of saying "normal" live it with it, we could have taken weeks off the time that she suffered. Just a note - not all chest pain is a panic attack or "in your head" and it is not normal and it is not okay to tell a female teenager with level 8 to 9 chest pain to live with it and PROVIDE NOTHING FOR DIRECTION such as Vitamin D levels, or hypermobility, or TENS. Or to see an occupational therapist and physical therapist that specializes in hypermobility and can help with special exercises.
• JW

  Josh W

  Aug 29, 2020
  1.0
  Billing is terribly incompetent. Our newborn son was referred here. He was seen 5 times in his first year of life. (It should have been 6, but we cancelled the 6th one due to the billing nightmare.) All appointments were identical (minus an occasional EKG as well, which was billed separately and properly). The first 3 appointments were billed in such a way that insurance covered them. Starting with the 4th appointment, they changed how they billed insurance for the exact same services, and insurance denied the claim entirely, leaving us with around a $3000 bill. I have been talking with billing people since February trying to get this resolved and it is still unresolved as the hospital is unwilling to budge. The care he received was good, but I have wasted enormous amounts of my time trying in vain to get this resolved. This is my first negative review ever, but I'm trying to find a new cardiologist who knows how to bill insurance for routine and recurring cardiologist visits and I was dismayed by the relatively few reviews posted for the different cardiologists in the area, so I thought I'd do my part in warning people of the incompetence of this place.