Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is a leader in pediatric clinical care and research and is the region’s premier teaching hospital for future pediatricians, pediatric surgical specialists, and clinicians. Our partnerships with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have helped build a strong reputation for both teaching and discovery.

Le Bonheur broke ground on our new hospital in February 2008, and the new Le Bonheur Children’s opened in December 2010.  The $340-million, 610,000-square-foot hospital doubled Le Bonheur’s previous space for patient care, research, and teaching. The new hospital is designed to serve the children of our area for the next 50 years and beyond. Everything from interior design to state-of-the-art technology is focused on one thing - providing exceptional care for children. 

The new hospital features:

• A campus that is 50 percent larger than the previous facility and covers more than one million square feet.
• Twelve patient care floors with the capacity for 255 inpatient beds and the ability to expand.
• Dedicated units for pediatric intensive care, cardiovascular intensive care, and neonatal intensive care.
• An Emergency Department with 64 patient treatment rooms, more than double the previous size.
• New diagnostic and treatment services include a 14-room surgical suite, a two-room cardiac catheterization laboratory, an interventional radiology suite, and an endoscopy suite.
• 10-Bed Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
• Intraoperative MRI (3 Tesla)
• Dedicated Neuro-ICU (9 Beds)
• Ability to perform PET, SPECT, FMRI, MEG, MRI, and co-register.
• A significant increase in research space
• Private patient rooms are designed to accommodate comfortable sleeping spaces for two parents.
• Playrooms and space for families to gather on every inpatient floor.
• Diversionary settings for inpatients, outpatients, and siblings include a reading room, a mini-movie theater, and play areas.
• A parent stays unit for family members who want to remain close to their children in critical care.
• Le Bonheur Club’s Parent Resource Center, with access to learning materials, the Internet, and patient educators.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

In 1995, Le Bonheur Children's became a part of the Methodist Healthcare family, supported by the Memphis, Mississippi, and Arkansas conferences of The United Methodist Church. Other Methodist Healthcare facilities include:

Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Methodist Extended Care Hospital Methodist North Hospital Methodist Olive Branch Hospital Methodist South Hospital Methodist University Hospital

For more information on Methodist Healthcare, visit www.methodisthealth.org

Memphis, located in southwest Tennessee, is just minutes from Arkansas and Mississippi.  Sitting on the Mississippi River, the city has slightly over one million population in the metro area. Memphis is a charming Southern city with a rich and colorful history.  It's a city that enjoys a stable economic base, low utility rates, and wonderful, friendly people.  With many theaters, museums, parks, malls, and sporting events, there's always something to do in Memphis. Good food, nice weather, and great people make Memphis a wonderful place to live.

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