Critical care is focus of expansion at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
This mural was put up while Turner Construction works on Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s expansion. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The $95 million project includes 128,575 square feet of construction and renovation that will add four floors to the west side of the hospital in the Memphis Medical District.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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