Training Sites
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
901.287.5437
Established in 1952, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital is an integral part of the Methodist
Le Bonheur Healthcare system and a teaching affiliate for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. A new $340-million hospital building was built in December 2010 to accommodate the
over 100,000 patients seen each year.
Named one of the nation's "Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for eight consecutive years, Le Bonheur is the only Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the Mid-South. Its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) provides the highest level of care for the region's critically ill newborns. Le Bonheur has received many accolades of excellence over the years including: Top Children's Hospital in 2017 by the Leapfrog group for its safe patient care, Magnet status - one of only 7 percent of hospitals in the U.S. to have earned this honor for quality nursing care by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and a three-star rating (the highest) by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons for its Heart Institute.
Le Bonheur’s endocrine program leads the region in diagnosis and treatment of infants, children and adolescents with suspected endocrine (hormone) disorders. These problems are often associated with abnormal growth, congenital disorders or brain injuries. Le Bonheur has a 6 bed neuro intensive care unit.
The diabetes program is the only center in the region recognized by the American Diabetes Association. The physicians lead multiple research studies in hormonal disorders, including diabetes mellitus.
Children are referred to Le Bonheur for endocrine-related issues including:
- Abnormal endocrine test results
- Abnormal newborn screen results
- Abnormal thyroid test results
- Abnormal weight gain
- Obesity
- Short stature
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Tests for hormone deficiencies
Regional One Health
877 Jefferson Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
(901) 545-7100
Regional One Health (ROH) was established in 1829, making it the oldest health system in Tennessee. In addition to being the home of the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, Regional One Health also includes several other Centers of Excellence in Burn, High-Risk Obstetrics, and Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU).
ROH is the largest medical and surgical teaching site for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. More than half of Tennessee's doctors will receive some, if not all, training at
ROH. The partnership between Regional One Health and the University of Tennessee
Health Science Center includes the UT Regional One Physicians group, the largest teaching physician group of its kind in the Mid-South.
St. Jude Children's Hospital
866.278.5833
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by actor Danny Thomas along with Lemuel
Diggs and Anthony Abraham in 1962, started as a promise to St. Jude Thaddeus, the
patron saint of the hopeless. In return for guidance in his career, Thomas pledged
to build a facility to treat ill children regardless of their race, color, creed,
or their family's ability to pay. St. Jude has become a premier pediatric treatment
and research facility, focusing on children with aggressive cancers. The hospital
treats children from all over the United States as well as 70 other countries throughout
the world. St. Jude research has helped increase the childhood cancer survival rate
from 20% to 80%.
In 2019, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was ranked the number two pediatric cancer hospital by U.S. News & World Report. St. Jude and the World Health Organization recently announced a five-year collaboration to cure at least 60% of children worldwide with the six most common types of cancer by 2030.