The Tarrant County Hospital District (TCHD), doing business as the JPS Health Network, is the taxpayer-financed hospital district of Tarrant County, Texas. Its headquarters are in the John Peter Smith Hospital at 1500 South Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76104.
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About JPS Health Network
For more than 100 years, JPS Health Network has served the medical needs of Tarrant County families as the community's public healthcare system.
The Network operates the 573-bed John Peter Smith Hospital, providing emergency services and trauma care at Tarrant County's only Level 1 Trauma Center. JPS operates more than 40 community and school-based health centers in the neighborhoods where our patients live.
JPS has a long history of training medical professionals and is the site of the nation's largest Family Medicine residency program. JPS has become a leading academic teaching hospital in innovative curricula, excellence in scholarly activity and evidence-based community-oriented research. Training is important to the mission of JPS in its efforts to meet the health care needs of Tarrant County.
JPS Health Network is a $950 million, tax-supported health care system for Tarrant County in North Texas.
JPS is anchored by John Peter Smith Hospital, which is a 573-bed acute care in Fort Worth, Texas. JPS has the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Tarrant County and the county's only psychiatric emergency services site. JPS is also a certified Chest Pain Center, Certified Primary Stroke Center and an Accredited American College of Surgery Cancer Center. JPS has a Level lll Neonatal Intensive Care Center (NICU).
The network has more than one million patient encounters per year.
More than 6,000 babies are born each year at John Peter Smith Hospital.
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Academics
JPS is a teaching site and trains physicians, nurses, physician assistants and other health care workers.
JPS supports nine residency programs: Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Podiatry, Psychiatry, Sports Medicine, Transitional Internship.
The Family Medicine residency is the largest family medicine residency program in the nation.
Leadership
The JPS Board of Managers includes 11 members who are appointed by the Tarrant County Commissioners. This committee manages the JPS Health Network facilities and leadership.
Health centers
The network includes more than 40 community-based health centers, including 20 clinics based on school campuses.
- JPS Health Center - Central Arlington
501 W. Main Street Arlington, TX 76010
(817) 702-8190
- JPS Health Center - Cypress
1350 E. Lancaster Fort Worth, TX 76102
(817) 702-1100
- JPS Health Center - Diamond Hill
3308 Deen Road Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 702-7000
- JPS Health Center - Family Health
1500 S. Main Street 4th Floor, Outpatient Building Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 702-1215
- JPS Health Center for Women - Fort Worth
1201 S. Main Street Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 702-6500
- JPS Health Center - Medical Home Southeast Tarrant
1050 W. Arkansas Lane Arlington, TX 76013
(817) 702-1100
- JPS Health Center - Northeast
837 Brown Trail Bedford, TX 76022
(817) 702-1100
- JPS Health Center - Northwest/Iona Reed
401 Stribling Drive Azle, TX 76020
(817) 702-1100
- JPS Health Center for Women & Children - Northwest
2200 Ephriham Avenue Fort Worth, TX 76164
(817) 702-6500
- JPS Health Center - Polytechnic
1650 S. Beach Fort Worth, TX 76105
(817) 702-1100
- JPS Health Center - South Campus
2500 Circle Drive Fort Worth, TX 76119
(817) 702-7340
- JPS Health Center Stop Six - Walter B. Barbour (Fort Worth)
3301 Stalcup Fort Worth, TX 76119
- JPS Health Center - Viola Pitts/Como
4701 Bryant Irvin Road N. Fort Worth, TX 76107
(817) 702-7400
- JPS Health Center - Watauga/Gertrude Tarpley
6601 Watauga Road Suite 124 Watauga, TX 76148
(817) 702-1100
School-Based Health Centers
JPS operates 20 primary care clinics on school campuses in 13 Tarrant County school districts. Services are open to students and their siblings.
See also
- Harris Health System (former Harris County Hospital District)
- Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas County)
References
External links
- JPS Health Network
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