See What Your Gift Can Do

JPS is actively working to meet the increasing demands of our vibrant, multi-cultural community — now and into the future. Facilities, technology and programs must keep pace with advances in medicine if JPS is to continue to provide the level of care our patients and physicians deserve.

	Comprehensive Campaign — We did it, with YOUR help… The JPS comprehensive campaign has been transitioning to an ongoing effort to provide major philanthropic gifts for important JPS initiatives. This campaign has profoundly changed JPS Health Network and the community we serve. With your support and nearly $11 million raised, JPS opened a state-of-the-art facility, our Patient Care Pavilion, in addition to funding important programs like the school-based initiative and our co-pay assistance program. We are thankful for our friends, old and new, who have meant so much to this effort. Click for a list of campaign donors.
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Initiatives You Can Support
	No Room for Error During Emergency Response Bill Whitman, chief operating officer for JPS, remembers where he was Nov. 22, 1963 when John Kennedy was taken to Parkland Hospital. He was the administrator at Harris HEB Hospital Aug. 2, 1985 when Delta 191 went down at DFW, killing 135 people. He’s seen the results of disaster first hand, knows what it takes to respond properly and is dedicated to JPS being ready for anything. “We have to be in perpetual readiness,” sald Whitman. Click here to read more.
	Healing Hearts in Tarrant County JPS Health Network established an onsite trauma cardiac surgery program in late 2009 as part of the requirements to attain Level I Trauma status. While dramatic and impressive, these improvements are just the initial steps in a series of actions to provide a comprehensive heart and vascular program in Tarrant County where the need is great. Click here to read more.
	Community Care - Who’s New The eyes sparkle, with the hint of a prankster, when Chris Dougherty scans the room. He taunts coworkers in a management meeting with his preference for a team other than America’s Cowboys. When howls come back, that grin just gets bigger. He takes as good as he gives, and he’s making friends despite his displaced football loyalty. Click here to read more.
	Dynamo comes in small package Employee recognition has Captain Sensational, but community health has its own dynamic duo – Chris Dougherty and Wendy Burkholder. While he may be bigger, the 5’4” gal has the black belt. The Tai Kwon Do expert started martial arts training 11 years ago."I was a single parent and wanted my son (who was then 4) to be involved in a disciplined activity," said Burkholder. Click here to read more.
	Central Resource Center for the Homeless In collaboration with the City of Fort Worth and other key providers, JPS Health Network began the initial steps towards building a resource facility in the epicenter of homeless activity in Fort Worth. Click here to read more
	Psychiatric Care – Adult and Children Personality change triggers diagnosis Read full story JPS has the only psychiatric emergency room and the only adolescent inpatient psychiatric facility in Tarrant County. Moreover, it has one of the few adult inpatient psychiatric hospitals available to the uninsured.
	Indigent Eye Care Only three centers in Tarrant County promote their services for treating underinsured and uninsured eye care patients, JPS being one of the primary providers. Last year, more than 17,000 procedures were done in the JPS eye clinic with an average 120 patients daily. This is all done in a 1,400 square- foot office that has to accommodate waiting room, procedure room and examination room space. Staff consistently seeks ways to improve efficiency but physical clinic expansion is required to meet the ever growing needs. Additionally, outreach programs and initiatives are an important component to ensuring that eye care is available to everyone in Tarrant County. A gift to the indigent eye care program will support all of the initiatives designed to expand this program in the coming years.