St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is dedicated to the treatment of cancer in children, and only children. Therefore, when you come to St. Jude for the first time, you will find a hospital and staff that has only one focus - the child. St. Jude was designed with this in mind as our entire facility has only 56 inpatient beds. St. Jude pioneered the concept that hospital confinement for childhood cancers is necessary only in critical cases.
Most care is delivered on an outpatient basis.
So even if treatment requires children and their families to stay in Memphis , it does not usually require them to be in the hospital for long periods of time. When children are at the hospital during the day for various appointments, activity rooms filled with toys, games and computers to help them pass the time and allow them to play and interact with other children. St. Jude represents a unique family - and a unique approach to patient care. St. Jude employees have dedicated their careers to helping patients and their families. Patients, doctors, nurses and researchers are located on the same campus.