Clinical Care
Office Contact Information
Hospitals and Clinics
Methodist University Hospital
1265 Union Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
901.516.7000
Methodist University Hospital (MUH) is a 617-bed facility and the principal adult
private teaching hospital for UT Health Science Center. Methodist University Hospital provides real-world experiences in managing medical
problems in an efficient and effective institution. MUH is home to a large solid organ
transplant program specializing in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantations.
MUH and the UT Health Science Center combine research, medicine, and innovation. This partnership supports multidisciplinary collaboration among doctors and clinical team members, leading to more advanced patient medical care.
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.
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.
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. ROH is the only level-1 trauma center in the region, has the region's
only accredited burn center, and also serves as the public safety-net hospital for
the Memphis area. Unique services offered by Regional One include the trauma services
and the burn ICU, in addition to caring for the region's underserved population.
ROH is one of the largest medical and surgical teaching site for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The partnership between Regional One Health and the University of Tennessee Health
Science Center includes the UT Regional One Physicians group.
Memphis VA Medical Center
1030 Jefferson Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
901.523.8990
Founded in 1922, the Memphis VA Medical Center (VAMC) is affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and is one of our primary adult teaching hospitals. It offers quality healthcare
for the changing medical, surgical, and quality of life needs of the Mid-South men
and women who so proudly served our nation.
For the 196,000 veterans from 53 counties in western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and northwest Arkansas, the VAMC offers a variety of services for both physical and mental health needs. New programs include those for traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicide prevention.
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis
6019 Walnut Grove Rd.
Memphis, TN 38120
901.226.5000
Baptist Memorial Hospital (BMH) - Memphis is the flagship hospital of the Baptist
Memorial Health Care system and a tertiary care referral center. The 80-acre campus includes the hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Baptist Women’s Health Center, Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children’s Hospital, and Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital, Baptist Heart Institute, and five (5) physicians’ office buildings. The Baptist mission is a three-fold ministry of healing, preaching, and teaching
which is used to provide quality health care.
BMH is one of Tennessee's busiest hospitals with 65,000 emergency department visits
and 12,000 surgeries each year. The hospital physicians are Mid-South transplant pioneers,
performing the first area open heart surgery in 1960 and the first local heart transplant
in 1985. A variety of subspecialty and ambulatory electives are available taught by
volunteer faculty, many of whom have received teaching awards.