Construction Facts
Le Bonheur is Growing Up
- New hospital to break ground in February 2008
- $340 million
- 12 floors
- Dedicated to patient and family-centered care - including large, single patient rooms, family lounges and abundant natural light
- Nearly 1-million-square-foot campus
- Most technologically advanced hospital in the region
- Renovation of the existing lobby and cafeteria to become a state-of-the-art conference and education center as well as a medical library
- Renovation of the current West Patient Tower to include parent sleep rooms, a sleep lab, dialysis, a hospital laboratory and two and a half floors of research space
- New building scheduled completion 2010
- Raised more than $81.5 million - as of January 2008
New Hospital Capabilities
- 144 medical surgical beds
- 60 neonatal intensive care unit beds
- 20 pediatric intensive care unit beds
- 10 cardiovascular intensive care unit beds
- Expansion space for additional ICU and medical surgical beds as needed
- 14 operating rooms with expansion capability to 15
- Expanded Emergency Department
- Space to allow for future growth
Demolition
- Demolition takes 20 weeks
- Approximately 27,000 cubic yards of building material will be hauled away from the site
- The Memphis Mental Health Institute buildings and plaza are approximately 362,000 square feet
- The site is 5.15 acres
- The wrecking ball used for the demolition ceremony weighs three tons
