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During the 2018 calendar year, approximately 1.78 million surgical tools were put to use in JPS Health Network operating rooms, used to perform surgeries that saved and improved lives.

Not a single one of them went unaccounted for.

About one person in every eight who participated in the 2019 Fort Worth Point in Time Count -- more than 60 of the approximately 500 volunteers who donated their labor to the project -- is a team member at the JPS Health Network.

When Loretta Martinez came to JPS Health Network in August suffering from chest pains, she was discouraged to learn she was having a heart attack that would require surgery to repair.

A total of 168 physicians who provide care to JPS Health Network patients – more than triple the number from just two years ago -- have been named to the annual list of the top doctors in the Dallas-Fort Worth area compiled by 360 West Magazine.

Nominated by their peers, the original top doctors list is divided by specialty area and is intended to be a resource for area residents. It's released by the magazine every February. Here, in alphabetical order, are the physicians with JPS credentials who appear on the list:

Housekeeper Jacqueline Minani has worked at JPS Health Network only for a few months, but she has already made a big impression.

A group of high school seniors from Fort Worth will donate their time in the coming months to senior citizens hospitalized at the JPS Health Network.

There are some things people just can’t do without. One of those things is blood.

Patients count on JPS Health Network to have an ample supply at the ready if they have a traumatic accident, if they require transfusions during cancer treatments or if they need it during surgery. Having enough of the right type of blood products—whole blood, platelets and plasma—on hand could be the key to saving a life. So, the supply is carefully managed by experts who make sure the health network is always prepared for any emergency that arises.

JPS Health Network is on the front lines of the battle against opioid drug use, adopting alternative pain management plans that are proving to be both safer and more effective for patients.

JPS Health Network’s commitment to focus on the well-being of the physicians who work there doesn’t only make life better for the doctors.

It helps patients get the best care possible by putting doctors in a position to reach their maximum potential, according to Glenda Mutinda, Phd., who came on board in November as the health network’s first Director of Interpersonal Well-Being. The word is getting out to the next generation of physicians that JPS is one of the best places in the country for doctors to come to train and work.

Adopting new blood conservation techniques will be “a win-win-win situation” for JPS Health Network, its patients and Tarrant County Taxpayers, according to Dr. Rajesh Gandhi, Medical Director of Trauma Services there.