HOSPITAL UPDATES
JPS Health Network building new psychiatric emergency hospital
its current 30 beds to 90 beds. “This will be a very critical tool that we are improving on in that toolbox of how we work with people with mental health issues,” Tarrant County Judge B. Glen Whitley said in a news release. The center is being built to add more space and address a “critical short-term need,” according to hospital o cials. The center will later be incorporated into a new behavioral health inpatient hospital that will be built during Phase 4. The center’s new building will then be repurposed. The master plan calls for four phases of improvements at the main
AT A GLANCE A new psychiatric emergency center at JPS Health Network in Fort Worth. Late 2025 scheduled completion date 90 beds
BY CODY THORN
by voters in 2018. JPS Health Network plans to invest another $400 million from its operations for a combined $1.2 billion modernization and expansion plan. The new building that will temporarily house the psychiatric emergency center will be located next to Trinity Springs Pavilion, located at 1600 May St. The new facility is scheduled to be completed by 2025 and will raise capacity from
The amount of spots in new center, up from 30 4 new medical homes, or clinics
JPS Health Network has started construction of a new psychiatric emergency center, one of eight new buildings that will be constructed at the hospital’s campus in Fort Worth. JT Vaughn Construction, from Irving, won the bid for the $80 million project. The project is being funded as part of the $800 million bond program for the Tarrant County Hospital District that was approved
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hospital campus at 1500 S. Main St. in Fort Worth. There will also be four medical homes, or clinics, funded through the planned expansion.
New interventional radiology surgery lab comes to Fort Worth
BY MARK FADDEN
According to Tracy Martinez, the hospital’s professional and support service o cer, the lab was completed in May and was undertaken to upgrade an existing clinical interven- tional radiology suite built in 2012.
“The new equipment will provide state-of-the-art technology allowing advanced IR, vascular and heart catheterization procedures, and provide a higher level of collaborative care,” said Martinez.
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance, located at 10864 Texas Health Trail in northeast Fort Worth, has a new tool to provide urgent clinical care.
Texas Health Alliance’s second cath lab was completed in May. COURTESY TEXAS HEALTH ALLIANCE
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