The entire complex is being planned around the concept of patient and family centered care. Some features include:

• 12 floors and 610,000 square feet of space. 
• 400-car patient parking garage, a new entry boulevard and a site for future expansion (completed in 2011).
• The new hospital will feature 225 beds including dedicated units for pediatric intensive care, cardiovascular intensive care and neonatal intensive care.
• New diagnostic and treatment services; including a 14-room surgical suite, a two-room cardiac catheterization laboratory, an interventional radiology suite and an endoscopy suite.
• The Emergency Department will be enlarged to handle expected patient volumes beyond 2014.  The existing Emergency Department was built to treat 35,000 patients a year and is currently treating more than 70,000 annually.
• Private patient rooms
• All patient rooms planned to accommodate two parents
• A parent stay unit for family members who want to remain close by their children in critical care
• Lactation rooms for parent and staff use
• A large Parent Resource Center with access to learning materials, the Internet and patient educators
• Diversionary settings for inpatient children, outpatients and siblings including a reading room, a mini-movie theater and play areas
• Better registration processes and improved convenience
• The West Tower will be retained and used for education, research, logistical services, medical staff facilities and parent stay rooms.
• The Physician Office Building and parking garage at 777 Washington will be retained and used for the UT Medical Group's clinics and offices, physician practices and Le Bonheur administration.
• Double the research space in the Children's Foundation Research Center of Memphis (housed at Le Bonheur)
•  Extensive facilities for staff, physician and community education.