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When Fort Worth resident Jennifer Beyer learned she had breast cancer, she didn’t have any doubt that she was going to beat the disease.

“I didn’t know what God’s plan was for me,” Beyer, 45, said about her reaction to the startling diagnosis. “But I knew that it wasn’t to lay down in a bed and die. I still have too much that I want and need to do. I’m a single mom of two kids.”

Is it going to be a rough flu season or a mild one? In many ways, that’s up to you.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the best way to minimize the spread of the flu is for as many people as possible to get a vaccination against the disease every year. When people vaccinated against the flu are exposed to the virus, it’s far less likely that they’ll contract it or spread it, so influenza can be stopped in its tracks.

JPS Health Network police officer Jesse Willyerd has law enforcement in his blood.

He’s the son of a retired Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department deputy, so he’s wanted to be a cop as long as he can remember. It’s not a surprise that, after working at JPS for a while, he itched to go work for a municipal police department to get a taste of what it was like working in a more traditional law enforcement environment.

It’s never too early to think about the holiday season – especially when it comes to blood donations.

JPS Health Network on Monday, October 14 will hold a blood drive with an eye on the rapidly-approaching winter holidays.

“This is a time of year when we’re trying to plan ahead,” said Alison Kelly, Transfusion Safety Program Coordinator at JPS. “During the holidays, people will be traveling, so giving blood isn’t going to be on their mind. Donors might not be available at a time when demand is at its peak. So, we have to be prepared for things like that.”

Elizabeth Pegueros received the diagnosis no one wants to hear.

The 32-year-old mother of an eight-year-old daughter didn’t think much of her persistent cough. She always took good care of herself by getting plenty of exercise, ate right and didn’t smoke. She was confident it was just allergies or maybe a lingering infection to blame. Besides, she didn’t have health insurance. So, she thought, why waste money going to the doctor just to be told there wasn’t really anything that could done?

JPS Health Network trauma surgeons work in rooms full of high-tech lifesaving equipment. Yet one of their most valuable tools might be the simple slips of paper they’ve recently begun to keep handy when they’re on duty.

Official News Release

JPS Health Network, Tarrant County’s public healthcare provider, is pleased to announce that a new expansion to the Emergency Department is now open.

When Joyce Pierce came to JPS Health Network, a serious hernia was taking away her life bit by bit.

A bowling ball-sized protrusion of her intestines through her abdominal wall made it difficult, if not impossible, to perform even the everyday tasks many of us take for granted.

“I could barely roll over in bed, much less get any exercise,” Pierce said. “I couldn’t even hold my grandbaby. It was really difficult to do much of anything at all.”

It’s no surprise that one of the most effective ways to improve the health of a person who is homeless is to find them a home.

Getting them out of the elements isn’t the only way finding a permanent place to live benefits people who have been surviving on the streets. According to Joel Hunt, Director of Care Connections at JPS, it also creates a stable environment where they more consistently take prescribed medication and make sure to keep healthcare appointments.

JPS Health Network has seen demand for surgical services increase nearly 10 percent for the first seven months of 2019 compared to the same period the previous year.

According to health network records, a total of 8,166 operations were performed at the main campus and at the JPS Surgical Center in Arlington from the beginning of January through July in 2018. During the same period in 2019, records show 8,860 operations were completed.