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Why Smoke Detectors Fail to Wake Children
(May 1, 2008)
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| | Dr. Dave Clarke, a sleep expert at Le Bonheur, explains why children often fail to wake up when an alarm is going off. |
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Children's Health Fund Delivers Care to Memphis
(Apr 23, 2008)
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| | Le Bonheur’s Community Outreach mobile health division launched a new partnership with The Children’s Health Fund. |
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Baby Tigers Cheer for their Team
(Apr 7, 2008)
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| | When the Memphis Tigers played in the national championship, the patients, families and Associates at Le Bonheur were cheering for their favorite team. |
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Le Bonheur Opens New CVICU
(Mar 7, 2008)
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| | Before Ruth was born, doctors discovered that the little girl would be born with a heart defect. |
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Caring for the Neediest Children
(Mar 5, 2008)
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| | Susan Steppe, director of the Child Assessment Program, shares how Le Bonheur helps children who have been victims of abuse or neglect. |
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A New Place for Little Hearts
(Mar 3, 2008)
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| | At four months old, doctors found a defect in Matthew. Surgery was his only option. Now, children at Le Bonheur will have a new place for patient's following heart surgery. |
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Clean Hands for NICU Mom
(Feb 29, 2008)
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| | During their long stay in Le Bonheur’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, one mom learns how important it was to make sure her hands and arms were well washed before she touched her baby boy. |
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Le Bonheur Breaks Ground for a New Hospital
(Feb 14, 2008)
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| | Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center broke ground at a Feb. 14 ceremony, celebrating the beginning of construction for the new children’s hospital. |
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Family brings Christmas Surprise to Patients
(Dec 24, 2007)
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| | Sherry Parnell says the kindness of others kept their spirits up while spending last Christmas at the hospital. This year, they brought a little holiday cheer to the families who’ll spend this Christmas at the hospital. |
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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain
(Dec 20, 2007)
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| | New technology at Le Bonheur helps doctors unlock the mysteries around autism, epilepsy and brain tumors in children. |
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College student gets a new lease on life
(Dec 13, 2007)
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| | University of Memphis student Stephen Rogers started having seizures last year. Doctors tried several of medicines to control the epilepsy but nothing worked. |
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Safe Toys for Christmas
(Dec 13, 2007)
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| | In the wake of multiple recalls of unsafe toys, Le Bonheur’s director of Injury Prevention, Susan Helms shares tips for how to pick safe gifts at Christmas. |
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Thank You Jim Jaggers!
(Dec 13, 2007)
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| | WREG’s meteorologist Jim Jaggers rode his bicycle 333 miles across the Mid-South to raise money for Le Bonheur. Today, it was Le Bonheur’s turn to honor him. |
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Beginning the New Le Bonheur
(Nov 8, 2007)
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| | Le Bonheur celebrated the first step toward the new hospital at a demolition celebration. |
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Hour of Hope
(Oct 22, 2007)
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| | Downtowner Magazine
In the October issue, the Downtowner reports on the New Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and its impact to children in the Mid-South. |
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Doctors Dance for Special Kids' Camp
(Sep 4, 2007)
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| | Some LeBonheur doctor's are trading in their scrubs for dancing shoes. September 22, several of them will participate in "Young at Heart," a charity ball benefiting a special cardiac kids' camp. |
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Amanda Faces Dialysis with Grace
(Jun 29, 2007)
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| | Amanda Jones is an 18 -year-old dialysis patient at Le Bonheur and is waiting to be placed on the transplant list for a new kidney. |
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The Last Best Hope
(May 1, 2007)
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| | In this amazing three-part series, Commercial Appeal Reporter Mary Powers chronicles a "week in the life" of some very special Le Bonheur patients and their outstanding care team. |
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Le Bonheur Plans for the Hospital's Future
(Mar 12, 2007)
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| | Building a new hospital takes lots of planning and fundraising. Janet Phillips discusses Le Bonheur’s plans for designing a new hospital with the family and patient in mind. Fundraiser Susan Graf explains how important Le Bonheur is to the health of the community’s children. |
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19 Month Old Fights Tumor As Her Parents Fight War
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| | Casey Brookhyser has made a career of protecting others while serving in the Army. But all that training couldn’t prepare her for protecting her daughter Natalie from the tumor growing inside 19-month-old’s brain. |
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Epilepsy Defined
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| | For thousands of years, seizures have been blamed on everything from evil spirits to mental illness. Now groundbreaking technology is revealing the true nature of epilepsy, a brain disorder that affects more than one percent of the population.
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Evonte Cathey Share His Story Battling Scoliosis
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| | Dr. Jeff Sawyer also talks about the life-saving surgery Evonte will undergo later this month. Evonte will be the third child at Le Bonheur to receive a Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR) implant. |
