Newsroom Archive

When considering a name for a new school-based health clinic nearly a decade ago, JPS Health Network leaders wanted a moniker that made people who worked and visited the site at 3115 Pipeline Road in Euless think of a champion for the causes of children’s health and education.

They found that inspirational leader in longtime HEB ISD teacher and JPS volunteer Georgia Kidwell.

The JPS Health Network’s Echocardiography Laboratory has been re-certified by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission.

JPS Health Network Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residents Dr. Jason Burkes and Dr. Daniel Hammer have a lot in common besides their medical specialty.

It’s daunting enough to begin a medical residency program, reporting for a pressure-packed new job in an unfamiliar place.

The JPS Health Network nursing team has been recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with its prestigious Pathway to Excellence designation.

Elisabeth Rodgers, RN Clinical Manager at JPS, said Pathway to Excellence is the premier designation a nursing program can receive, showing a positive nursing practice environment and the structural foundation of a healthy workplace.

A pilot program at JPS to identify victims of domestic abuse and human trafficking and lead them to help has produced such encouraging results, it’s already been expanded.

“It’s an evidence-based screening process that gives more certainty about detecting abuse and how to proceed in situations when abuse is detected,” explained JPS Violence and Injury Prevention Manager Mary Ann Contreras, RN.

After an ATV accident that crushed Jaylin Smith’s ankle and shattered bones in her left leg, the teenager is grateful to the team of JPS surgeons, nurses and physical therapists who saved her leg.

Jaylin has had eight surgeries and spent a total of 35 days at John Peter Smith Hospital – so far.

When they’re giving everything they have to their patients, it’s easy for healthcare providers to forget to make time to take care of themselves.

Fort Worth – JPS Health Network has been recognized by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) with a 2018 BEST Award winner as one of 45 organizations worldwide demonstrating enterprise-wide success as a result of employee talent development.

A Family Medicine physician who has been at JPS Health Network for nearly two decades has received a national award for his leadership in fighting cancer.