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A $1.5 billion project at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth will create a medical o ce building, a psychiatric emergency center, a new hospital complex and add more improvements to the hospital system.
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Patient Care Pavilion expansion Will extend the patient care building to the north and create infrastructure to eventually connect it to the new hospital
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Central utility plant Will deliver power, heating and cooling with more e ciency to the main campus
Existing buildings Phase 1 building Phase 2 building
Patient towers Current plans have 588 planned beds for patient care
Psychiatric emergency center Designed to treat patients experiencing mental health crises. New center will increase from 30 to 96 beds
Medical o ce building and ambulatory surgery center A new 400,000-square- foot building to be located on Magnolia Avenue
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faces a shortage of mental health care professionals. All Texas Access, a legislatively directed ini- tiative that focuses on increasing access to mental health services, found in its 2022 report that North Texas needs additional crisis beds as well as inpatient psychiatric beds. Project details The main John Peter Smith Hospital campus is located at 1500 S. Main St. in Fort Worth. JPS Health Network serves all of Tarrant County and has clinics located in Grapevine, Fort Worth, Euless and sur- rounding areas. Nearly 40% of the hospital’s operat- ing budget is from property taxes collected in Tarrant County, according to its 2021-22 scal year budget. The project’s $1.5 billion price tag will be split between sold bonds and operating cash from JPS. Phase 1 of the project—set at $635 million—includes a new ambulatory surgery center, medical o ce building, psychiatric emergency center, parking garage, central utility plant and transitional parking around the main campus for construction. The rst
phase will also build the Medical Home Southwest Tarrant facility, which will be a pri- mary care clinic. These projects will be funded with $450 million in bonds and $185 million in operating cash. Phase 1 is projected to be completed between 2025 and 2027, according to JPS. The second phase of the project is estimated to cost $876 million and nishes out the program with new inpatient towers that will connect to the Patient Care Pavilion. The second group of bonds, expected to be sold in late 2026 or early 2027, will be $350 million. The remaining portion of the project will be paid for with $526 million in cash, according to JPS. “The … bond program will allow JPS Health Net- work to develop modernized and much-needed facil- ities at both Main Campus and in southwest Tarrant County, ensuring the residents of Tarrant County have access to excellent care for the next 50 years and beyond,” said Jessica Virnoche, a JPS spokesperson, in an email. While approved by Tarrant County voters in 2018, the rst group of bonds for Phase 1 were not sold until
February 2023. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the start of the bond program, Virnoche said the network had to take time to plan the project and its phases. JPS sought feedback from doctors, nurses and team members on the vision for the project. Residents were able to give feedback through an online survey on how the future facilities could meet the community’s needs. “Prioritizing and staging all of the projects that are contemplated by the program requires a lot of discus- sion and planning that is not easily visible but is a nec- essary part of the work,” Virnoche said. JPS broke ground on the new psychiatric emer- gency center Oct. 26. The new facility will increase capacity from 30 beds to 96 beds and will address a “critical short-term need,” according to JPS o cials. “[The psychiatric center] will be a very critical tool that we’re improving on in that tool box of how we work with folks with mental health issues,” former Tarrant County Judge B. Glen Whitley said at the groundbreaking ceremony. The current center is located on the 10th oor of the hospital’s main campus. JPS’ new center will be
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