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JPS Health Network President and CEO Robert Earley will be presented later this month with one of the most prestigious honors in the healthcare industry: induction into the Fire Starter Hall of Fame.

He’ll be one of four people from healthcare organizations across the United States and Canada to receive the recognition from Huron/Studer Group this year, which will be happen during the What’s Right in Healthcare Conference, Aug. 21-23 in Nashville, Tenn.

The goal is to see the patient’s eyes light up with excitement when the cover is pulled from their dinner plate to reveal a home-style meal.

Recovering from an illness or injury takes more than skilled care of doctors and nurses. Ensuring that patients at John Peter Smith Hospital are eating nutritious and tasty meals is an important part of health and healing.

Meals for JPS patients are planned by an experienced chef and a team of registered dietitians. Patients can choose their meals from a daily menu, in accordance with the diet specified by their healthcare team to meet their medical needs.

At first glance, the job of the folks who deliver meals to patients in their rooms seems pretty straightforward – drop off the food tray and pick it up when the patient has finished eating.

But people who work as Dining Service Associates at John Peter Smith Hospital know that their role is so much more. A warm smile and a bit of conversation with a Dining Service Associate can be the best moment of a patient’s day when they are feeling sick and longing for home.

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.