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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.

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.

The blood supply in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has dwindled to uncomfortably low levels, causing a critical shortage to be declared across the area by JPS Health Network’s blood supplier, Carter BloodCare.

Going to see the doctor can be a stressful time for some people.

For the first time, JPS Health Network has hit the 99 percent mark when it comes to successfully resolving product recall cases.

“That’s a big deal and it couldn’t have happened without a total team effort,” said JPS Network Recall Manager J.C. Newell. “Everyone has to work together to make sure we get anything that could cause problems for our patients out of here.”

A simple solution has produced amazing results, helping JPS Health Network make sure a higher percentage of surgeries start on time.

A whiteboard was placed six months ago outside the JPS Health Network surgical suite to keep track of when operations start, noting with emoji faces if the first procedure of the day in each of JPS’s operating rooms starts promptly. A happy face is posted if it does. Something unhappier is posted – along with a note about why the start was late – if the operation doesn’t begin promptly.