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JPS Health Network closed 16 clinics in or near Fort Worth area schools last year after more than a decade of promoting the school-based clinics as an essential access point for underserved children.
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Fort Behavioral Health has reopened after a 30-day shutdown, but some former staff say it’s still “extremely unsafe” for children living at the facility, a Star-Telegram investigation finds.
JPS is a teaching facility. It is the site of the nation's largest hospital-based Family Medicine residency program. [6] JPS Health Network operates John Peter Smith Hospital, which is a 573-bed [7] acute care facility in Fort Worth, Texas. John Peter Smith Hospital provides emergency services and Level 1 trauma care.
The facilities at 1500 Main Street on Fort Worth's Near Southside, include a Patient Care Pavilion (a five-story acute care facility), an outpatient care center, and a dedicated facility for psychiatric services. [1] In August 1981 a flood caused power to go out in JPS hospital. A psychiatric patient at JPS helped direct emergency operations.
The first children's hospital in the area began with the organization of the Fort Worth Free Baby Hospital on March 21, 1918. The hospital opened its doors with only 30 beds. A second floor was added in 1922 to include care for older children and adolescents and the hospital was eventually renamed The Fort Worth Children's Hospital.
A Texas lawmaker says the crisis for families after the state’s abrupt shutdown of a Fort Worth residential clinic exposed failings in the system meant to protect children.
In 2013, HSC launched Fort Worth's first Mobile Pediatric Clinic to deliver health care to children living in underserved parts of the city. [13] In 2014, Texas Woman's University joined the IPE partnership. In 2015, UNTHSC and TCU announced the creation of a joint MD school, which began matriculating students in 2018.