Excellence in Healthcare since 1918

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) is an integrated healthcare delivery system based in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1918 by The United Methodist Church to help meet the growing needs for quality healthcare in the Mid-South, Methodist has grown from one hospital into a comprehensive health system that includes six hospitals, a home health agency, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient facilities, hospice residence and physician practices serving residents in the greater Memphis area regardless of their ability to pay.

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Our Commitment to You

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is widely recognized for providing the highest‐quality of patient care and services. We offer a wide variety of care options from cancer care, emergency services, diabetes control and more for the whole family.

• U.S. News & World Report has repeatedly named Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital as one of the nation’s “Best Children’s Hospitals.”
• Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute has been a nationally-recognized leader in the field of kidney, liver, kidney-pancreas and pancreas transplants for more than 40 years

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Our Commitment to Innovation and Collaboration

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is a leader in promoting effective partnerships to support enhanced innovation and improved patient outcomes. 

• Methodist is home to the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, which provides preventative outpatient care and transitional care and conducts cutting‐edge research in collaboration with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
  
  
• Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital hosts the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics project – one of the country’s only pediatric biorepositories solely focused on genetic causes for childhood disease.
  
  
• Methodist Healthcare partners with West Cancer Center and University of Tennessee Health Science Center to provide world‐class cancer care.
  
  
• Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital collaborates with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital on many clinical and educational programs, including a successful brain tumor program with some of the world’s best-documented one‐year survival rates.

Our Commitment to Serving All

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare believes strongly in providing high‐quality services to all patients, regardless of circumstance. 

• Methodist Le Bonheur is Tennessee’s largest provider of care to TennCare/Medicaid and uninsured patients.
  
  
• Methodist’s adult hospitals serve more than 128,000 TennCare and Medicaid patients annually.
  
  
• Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital provided care for more than 142,000 TennCare and Medicaid patients in 2016, a 42% increase in the past two years.
  
  
• Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital treats 80,000 children from 79 Tennessee counties each year, plus an additional 15,000 children through community outreach efforts.

• Nursing Jobs

  If you're a newly graduated Registered Nurse (RN), please read about our new hiring process. If you are already a nurse and want to join our team, search job listings or call nurse recruitment at 901-478-0630.

  We currently have a variety of positions available in our RN float pool, including PRN, weekender and full-time day or night shifts. All float pool positions require a BSN, 2 years of experience, and the willingness to work at Methodist University Hospital and two other facilities of your choice in the Methodist system. View available positions by entering Float Pool in the search field.

  Nursing Education

  We’ve expanded our nursing educational programs through the unique partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing. Students can enter the program at different points in the curriculum to best support their individual career paths. Bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees are available.