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JPS Heath Network’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been designated as a Level III Neonatal Facility in Perinatal Care Region-E by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

JPS Health Network Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse Nergis Blood has always been a person determined to follow her calling to help those in need of care.

JPS Health Network is poised to begin work on relocating its cancer center after its Board of Managers and the Tarrant County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a sublease agreement between JPS and UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Institute for medical space located at 1450 8th Avenue in Fort Worth.

JPS leaders are proud to announce that the health network has been re-verified by the American College of Trauma Surgeons Committee on Trauma as a Level I Trauma Center.

It’s the third time the designation has been renewed since JPS was originally named a Level I Trauma Center in 2009.  The designation lasts until Nov. 17, 2021.

JPS Junior Volunteers put together 280 hygiene kits Tuesday afternoon, getting them more than halfway to their goal of assembling 500 before their time at the health network ends in about three weeks.

JPS Health Network has seen a sharp increase in the number of patients coming to the Emergency Department seeking treatment for venomous snake bites.

Combining steady hands and the high-tech capability of an ultrasound machine, JPS emergency medicine physicians are learning a technique to relieve extreme pain and reduce the need for powerful opioid painkillers.

Wellness experts say keeping your office green not only can make you healthier – it can help you do a better job, too.

Geneva Crow waters her office plants

Studies indicate plants reduce stress, increase productivity by as much as 15 percent, purify the air, stimulate creativity and suppress noise levels.

Is that a surgeon changing a light bulb?

No, actually. That’s JPS Health Network maintenance mechanic Kris Rizzo. It’s his job to make sure everything either works or gets fixed in surgery, Perioperative Services and Sterile Processing so doctors and nurses can do their life-saving work. He said he sometimes is confused for a surgeon because, due to the need to keep the sensitive areas where he works perfectly clean, he wears scrubs instead of the uniforms his colleagues wear in other parts of the health network.

Crew members from the USS Fort Worth on Thursday visited patients at JPS Health Network. It was part of an effort to give something back to the ship’s namesake community, they said, because it supports the vessel and its sailors so well.

“It’s great to be able to come here and see in the patients’ eyes or in their smile that we were able to lift their spirits,” said Devin McLean, an electronics technician on the Freedom Class littoral combat ship as he went from room to room. “I’m glad to be able to be a part of this.”