|
Healthy Eating Program
(Apr 29, 2009)
|
| | In Chester County, “Way to Go Kids!” teaches children how to eat well and stay active for a healthy life. |
|
Topping Out Ceremony
(Apr 8, 2009)
|
| | Construction on the new Le Bonheur reached its highest point on April 8. In celebration, Le Bonheur Associates, constructions workers and patients gathered to watch the last beam placed atop the building. |
|
Free Swimming Lessons
(Mar 26, 2009)
|
| | Make a Splash Mid-South teaches children how to swim and has made a positive impact on supporting summertime child safety. |
|
Pool Safety
(Mar 20, 2009)
|
| | Make a Splash Mid-South, is teaching children how to swim, be safe and have fun in the pool. |
|
Weathermen Visit on Valentine's Day
(Feb 14, 2009)
|
| | News Channel 3 weathermen Jim Jaggers and Tim Simpson delivered special valentines to the young patients at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center on February 12. |
|
Healthcare Community Forum Taped For Barack Obama
(Dec 30, 2008)
|
| | On December 30, Mid-Southerners were given an opportunity to present their thoughts on health care to President-elect Barack Obama and his administration. |
|
Learning to Eat Again
(Oct 15, 2008)
|
| | A program at Le Bonheur is giving young children a little encouragement to eat. |
|
LEAD Helps Breanna Make Big Steps
(Oct 2, 2008)
|
| | For two-year-old Breanna Buchanan Le Bonheur Early Intervention and Development is a lifesaver. |
|
Madeline Makes An Impact
(Oct 1, 2008)
|
| | Madeline Flack was born with four congenital heart defects that were diagnosed before her first birthday. |
|
Brighton student eat well and keep moving
(Sep 30, 2008)
|
| | A new research project by Le Bonheur Community Outreach and the Children’s Foundation Research Center is studying the effects of incorporating exercise and nutrition into classroom education. |
|
Annabelle Keeps Moving Thanks to Le Bonheur
(Sep 29, 2008)
|
| | Annabelle Hulgens was diagnosed with spina bifida and severe hydrocephalous before she was born. |
|
Jim Jaggers Checks Out the Construction Site
(Sep 29, 2008)
|
| | Before Jim started his third annual ride around the Mid-South to raise money for Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, he went on a special tour on the site of the new hospital. |
|
Community HIV Network Reaches Out
(Sep 20, 2008)
|
| | Kristen Young and Britten Bailey were guests on WMC to talk about the Community HIV Network new partnership with the Rentrop-Geater Family and Occupational Medicine to offer free rapid HIV tests in South Memphis. |
|
LUV Makes Doctor Do Something Crazy
(Sep 14, 2008)
|
| | Loves makes you do crazy things. Pediatric cardiologist Rush Waller, MD, took his love for Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center to a new level. |
|
Good Morning Le Bonheur
(Sep 11, 2008)
|
| | Thanks to the efforts of the Child Life staff, patients at Le Bonheur have a new way to start their days. |
|
The Power of Allyson
(Sep 3, 2008)
|
| | Bartlesville, Oklahoma resident Allyson Perry came to Le Bonheur Children’s for treatment of a rare brain tumor. The 4-year-old daughter of Mike and Michelle has shown such strength and courage as the medical team has looked for ways to help her. |
|
Building A Better Hospital
(Aug 28, 2008)
|
| | The new Le Bonheur Children’s is well on its way. |
|
Music As Medicine Shows Power of Melody
(Aug 28, 2008)
|
| | Renowned music therapist Deforia Lane visited Le Bonheur to share the healing powers of music. |
|
Creative Therapy Brings Music to Patient's Ear
(Jul 24, 2008)
|
| | World-renowned music therapist Deforia Lane, Ph.D. helped the child life team at Le Bonheur hit all the right notes with patients. |
|
Anna Goes to Washington
(Jun 16, 2008)
|
| | Anna Ives, a former brain tumor patient at Le Bonheur, went to Washington to advocate for the hospital that saved her life. |
|
A Show of Hands
(May 19, 2008)
|
| | Le Bonheur was highlighted in the Health and Fitness section for its successful hand hygiene program. |
|
Why Smoke Detectors Fail to Wake Children
(May 1, 2008)
|
| | Dr. Dave Clarke, a sleep expert at Le Bonheur, explains why children often fail to wake up when an alarm is going off. |
|
Children's Health Fund Delivers Care to Memphis
(Apr 23, 2008)
|
| | Le Bonheur’s Community Outreach mobile health division launched a new partnership with The Children’s Health Fund. |
|
Baby Tigers Cheer for their Team
(Apr 7, 2008)
|
| | When the Memphis Tigers played in the national championship, the patients, families and Associates at Le Bonheur were cheering for their favorite team. |
|
Le Bonheur Opens New CVICU
(Mar 7, 2008)
|
| | Before Ruth was born, doctors discovered that the little girl would be born with a heart defect. |
|
Caring for the Neediest Children
(Mar 5, 2008)
|
| | Susan Steppe, director of the Child Assessment Program, shares how Le Bonheur helps children who have been victims of abuse or neglect. |
|
A New Place for Little Hearts
(Mar 3, 2008)
|
| | 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. |
|
Clean Hands for NICU Mom
(Feb 29, 2008)
|
| | 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. |
|
Le Bonheur Breaks Ground for a New Hospital
(Feb 14, 2008)
|
| | Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center broke ground at a Feb. 14 ceremony, celebrating the beginning of construction for the new children’s hospital. |
|
Family brings Christmas Surprise to Patients
(Dec 24, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Brain
(Dec 20, 2007)
|
| | New technology at Le Bonheur helps doctors unlock the mysteries around autism, epilepsy and brain tumors in children. |
|
College student gets a new lease on life
(Dec 13, 2007)
|
| | University of Memphis student Stephen Rogers started having seizures last year. Doctors tried several of medicines to control the epilepsy but nothing worked. |
|
Safe Toys for Christmas
(Dec 13, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
Thank You Jim Jaggers!
(Dec 13, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
Beginning the New Le Bonheur
(Nov 8, 2007)
|
| | Le Bonheur celebrated the first step toward the new hospital at a demolition celebration. |
|
Hour of Hope
(Oct 22, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
Doctors Dance for Special Kids' Camp
(Sep 4, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
Amanda Faces Dialysis with Grace
(Jun 29, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
The Last Best Hope
(May 1, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
Le Bonheur Plans for the Hospital's Future
(Mar 12, 2007)
|
| | 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. |
|
19 Month Old Fights Tumor As Her Parents Fight War
|
| | 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. |
|
Epilepsy Defined
|
| | 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.
|
|
Evonte Cathey Share His Story Battling Scoliosis
|
| | 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. |
