Newsroom Archive

Newly installed medical staff leaders say they are eager to help with the process of moving JPS forward into the future.

Dr. Chet Schrader was recently named Medical Staff President while Dr. Cheryl Hurd was named Vice President. They both said they’re excited and honored to hold the positions.

JPS team member Harrietta Epherson’s job title might be “housekeeper.”

But if you ask her – or anyone who has worked with her – what Harrietta does for a living, they’re likely to say she’s a professional perfectionist.

Teenagers participating in the Summer Junior Volunteer Program at JPS will be served a heaping helping of knowledge during meal breaks.

Called Lunches for Learning, Manager of Volunteer Services Kim Pinter said the new program has been arranged to allow a variety of JPS professionals to speak with student volunteers during their lunch period. The sessions will happen six times over the course of the students’ two-month-long summer stint at the health network.

For a second consecutive year, Modern Healthcare has named JPS Health Network as one of the best places in the United States to work.

“JPS Health Network is thrilled to be among the recipients of the 2018 Best Places to Work honors,” President and CEO Robert Earley said. “It is wonderful to let taxpayers and our community know they support a public healthcare system of which they can be incredibly proud.”

When they arrived in April at JPS to tour the facilities and start a month-long stint as junior volunteers, high-achieving high school seniors from Fort Worth knew they wanted to pursue a career in healthcare.

It’s not a shiny new car. It’s a dishwasher.

But if the new JPS Health Network dish machine was an auto, it would certainly be fuel-sipping hybrid with all the latest safety features compared to the worn out Edsel it replaced.

Every day, people arrive at JPS for the first time and need a little help finding their way.

Their first stop – the information desk on the first floor of the main campus.

There, they are likely to meet Carla Hunter-Tomlinson, one of the Patient Care Ambassadors who help make sure that their visits start out right. Carla greets JPS guests and gives them directions. This patient stops by to locate radiology. Another patient has an appointment in the lab. Another visitor is here to see a newborn nephew.

A change in the way JPS Health Network processes Medicaid billing for some of its most vulnerable patients could save Tarrant County taxpayers about $45,000 a month providing necessary care.

According to JPS Manager of Clinical Nutrition Meradith Harris, 1,009 patients suffering from chronic malnutrition walked through the doors at JPS in 2017. In the first three months of this year, 312 malnourished patients came to JPS for care, a pace for 1,248 over the course of the year. A technicality in Medicaid rules made it difficult to bill for treatment of their dietary issues.

Nurses are always learning something new.

Their never-ending education comes both on the job and in the classroom where they study the latest life-saving techniques that benefit their patients every day while also giving nurses a chance to advance their careers, said Carin Adams, Manager of the Nurse Residency Program at JPS.

Leslie Haas, 2017 JPS Nurse of the Year, tearfully recounted the story of a soldier who was mortally wounded in a car accident Wednesday to illustrate the remarkable compassion of her successor, Intensive Care Unit RN Charis Blassingame.