Head of children's heart surgery at Glenfield, Giles Peek, felt the news was highly significant.
Glenfield is the only hospital in the UK with a mobile Ecmo service for children.
The service will eventually fly children from other locations to Glenfield Hospital for treatment.
The service will transfer children back to Glenfield for treatment starting in the spring of 2013.
The Children's Air Ambulance from Coventry will fly doctors from Leicester's Glenfield Hospital to treat critically-ill patients.
Services are to be relocated from the city's Glenfield Hospital to Birmingham as part of a national reorganisation.
Government advisors are visiting Leicester's Glenfield Hospital to review a decision to move children's heart surgery procedures to Birmingham.
As a result, heart units at Leeds General Infirmary, Leicester's Glenfield Hospital and London's Royal Brompton will stop surgery.
Her condition at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester was described as critical but stable.
The official review concluded children's heart units at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital and London's Royal Brompton should also stop surgery.
The committee added expertise would be retained in the Midlands "through joint planning by Glenfield Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital".
Councillors in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire had also contacted Mr Hunt with concerns about the closure of the unit at Glenfield.
The Glenfield Hospital unit is one of three facing closure but a High Court judge said the consultation was flawed.
Children's heart surgery services are to be relocated from Glenfield Hospital to Birmingham Children's Hospital as part of a national reorganisation.
The government has ordered an initial review of a decision to relocate children's heart surgery from Leicester's Glenfield Hospital to Birmingham.
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That would lead to operations ending at the unit in Leeds, as well at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital and London's Royal Brompton.
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The Glenfield unit is to stop surgery for children but will remain open to diagnose patients and for monitoring and non-surgical treatment.
The JCPCT said in July that the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre at Glenfield should be one of three to close nationally.
Glenfield is one of 3 units which face closure following a review.
However staff from Bradgate, which is on the Glenfield Hospital site, told the inquest they believed she had been offered the correct care.
Families of children treated at Glenfield said the news was a boost while the hospital's board is meeting later to discuss its implications.
At Glenfield Hospital, in Leicester, staff were able to remove a three-week delay in breast cancer waiting times by re-designing their patient registration forms.
The review follows NHS recommendations to close the units at Leeds General Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and the Royal Brompton in west London.
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In August Leicester's NHS trust announced it had decided not to take legal action against the decision to stop children's heart surgery at Glenfield.
Giles Peak, consultant surgeon at Glenfield, said he was pleased with the decision but that it was too soon to say what it would mean.
Services are set to be relocated from Glenfield Hospital to Birmingham.
The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) said in July the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre at Glenfield should be one of three to close nationally.
In July, the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) said the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre at Glenfield should be one of three to close nationally.
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