About the New Le Bonheur

Providing the best care for children is what Le Bonheur Children’s is all about. With a focus on patients, families and staff, the new hospital will help Le Bonheur fulfill its mission of leading children's health care in the Mid-South and the United States.

For Le Bonheur patients and their families, the new hospital will offer spacious, private rooms designed with kids in mind, bright open areas for play and a parent resource center for education and respite.

For Le Bonheur staff, the new, state-of-the-art facility with the most advanced technology and resources will allow caregivers to deliver the very best care to every patient.

Download a PDF of a full-color brochure about the New Le Bonheur.

When the new hospital opens in 2010 it will feature:

A campus that is 50 percent larger than the current facility and covers more than one million square feet.
12 patient care floors with the capacity for 255 inpatient beds and 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 current size.
New diagnostic and treatment services including a 14-room surgical suite, a two-room cardiac catheterization laboratory, an interventional radiology suite and an endoscopy suite.
A significant increase in research space
Private patient rooms designed to accommodate comfortable sleeping space for two parents.
Playrooms and space for families to gather on every in-patient floor.
Diversionary settings for inpatients, outpatients and siblings including a reading room, a mini-movie theater and play areas.
A parent stay unit for family members who want to remain close by their children in critical care.
Le Bonheur Club’s Parent Resource Center, with access to learning materials, Internet and patient educators.

Changes will also be made to the current Le Bonheur hospital as part of facility renovation. Some of those will include:

A new 400-car patient parking garage, entry boulevard and space for future expansion.
A new hospital entry boulevard off of Adams Avenue providing green space.
A remodeled West Tower to provide additional space for education, research, logistical services, medical staff facilities, dialysis, sleep lab, hospital laboratory and parent sleep rooms.
Renovation of the existing lobby and cafeteria to become a state-of-the-art conference center and medical library.
Extensive facilities for staff, physician and community education.

Fun Le Bonheur Facts Some interesting facts about Le Bonheur and the people who make up the Le Bonheur family.	Construction Facts Le Bonheur needs to expand to accommodate the rapid growth of the hospital. Many years of planning went in to the plan for the New Le Bonheur.
Focus on the Family From access to parking, to way finding to the layout of the patient rooms, families provide valuable information that will be incorporated into the achitects' drawings.	Directions - Finding Your Way To Le Bonheur and Around Campus View maps of Le Bonheur and get information on the best way to come to Le Bonheur. Also see the latest construction closing information here.
Inside the New Le Bonheur Would you like to see what the future of children's healthcare looks like in Memphis?	Timeline of Important Construction Events The New Le Bonheur will open in 2010. The timeline shows the milestones throughout the construction process.
Who Is Building the New Le Bonheur What does it take to build a new state-of-the-art children's hospital? Outstanding architects, contstruction firms and project managers. Meet these outstanding groups who are actually building Le Bonheur's future one brick at a time.	Growing Green By building the new hospital with a sustainable focus, Le Bonheur is building green, saving green and living green.
Art in the New Le Bonheur At Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, we believe that healing children requires much more than just medicine. Because of this philosophy, unique and local art has been incorporated in the "healing plan" for our patients and their families.