Former NICU patient returns to Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown as intern
Houston High School senior Jayden Kyles, pictured on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, spent several months in the Methodist Hospital-Germantown NICU and recently finished a clinical intern hospital’s NICU unit. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Jayden Kyles could have encountered numerous barriers before graduating high school in a few weeks, but his mother fought for him even before he was born.
Now the 6-foot 18-year-old has come full circle, spending part of his senior year as an aspiring health care professional in the same Germantown hospital that cared for him in his first months of life.
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Abigail Warren
Abigail Warren is an award-winning reporter and covers Collierville and Germantown for The Daily Memphian. She was raised in the Memphis suburbs, attended Westminster Academy and studied journalism at the University of Memphis. She has been with The Daily Memphian since 2018.
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