Newsroom Archive

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.

To get a firsthand look at the challenges homeless patients face when they’re discharged, a group of 28 JPS Health Network nurse residents braved triple-digit temperatures, hoping to learn how to navigate to places where services are available to those in need after they get out of the hospital.

JPS Health Network’s cancer treatment programs have had their accreditation renewed by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.

It’s a prestigious designation that shows the dedication of the health network to providing the best care possible for Oncology patients.

While some musicians dream of playing at Carnegie Hall or the Grand Ole Opry, Fort Worth teenager Jo Jo Liu prefers a smaller, more personal audience.

Jim Graves, Executive Director of the Departments of Respiratory Therapy and Neurodiagnostics at JPS Health Network, has been named Respiratory Care Manager of the Year by the Texas Society for Respiratory Care.

It was an honor that left the seven-year veteran of the health network both surprised and grateful.

Four JPS team members stationed at the Tarrant County Corrections Center in downtown Fort Worth are moving up in the working world thanks, in part, to freedom afforded them by their employer.

Hidden away on its Fort Worth main campus lies the nerve center of telephonic communication at JPS Health Network.

There, an incredible maze of thousands of wires lines the walls and the ceiling, a blue and red twist of spaghetti. It’s Joe Richardson’s job to make sure all those lines are correctly connected. His formal title is telecommunications technician. But to the people who summon him for help whenever they need assistance in making a connection, he’s more commonly known as Joe the Phone Guy.

You don’t often see them. But the Tarrant County Hospital District Police Department communications officers are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, looking out for you.

In a dimly lit room behind a locked door, the communications officers – also known as dispatchers -- are constantly vigilant, scanning two walls of monitors for any sign of trouble. At the same time, they’re working the phones and radios on which they answer calls of distress and queries for information, sending the right people to the right place whenever they’re needed.

His office location and the equipment he uses on a daily basis have changed over the course of his 24 years at JPS Health Network.

Still, radiology technologist Jon Lawson’s love for his patients, his colleagues and the work he does has always remained the same.