Health care
BY MIRANDA JAIMES
JPS Health Network makes strides in $635M facilities improvement project
FELIKS GWOZDZ PL.
Fort Worth
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is also moving on the Medical Outpatient Building in the opposite corner of the campus, she said. The background Projects in the hospital system’s master facility plan stem from a 2018 bond election Tarrant County voters approved. Phase 1 of the project was set at $625 million, with the total project expected to cost $1.5 billion. Once completed, the project will have reimagined several JPS facilities, including the main campus, and created a new hospital complex adjacent to its existing location to help better care for patients needing mental health services. About the hospital 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.
Crews have been working this spring to make improvements to existing JPS Health Network facilities in Tarrant County while building new ones
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at the same time. What’s happening
Project timeline Winter 2024: Medical Home Southwest project complete Summer 2025: Psychiatric Emergency Center complete Spring 2026: Construction begins on parking garage at original campus Spring 2027: Programming, planning, design start on Medical Outpatient Building Winter 2027: Programming, planning, design start on Pavilion North Expansion Winter 2029: Programming, planning, design start on new hospital towers
Construction on the temporary parking area was completed in April, JPS President and CEO Dr. Karen Duncan said at an April Tarrant County Commis- sioners Court meeting. People can use this area to park while construction takes place on other parts of the hospital campus. “The biggest part of any construction project is to figure out where people are going to park,” Duncan said. Construction on the hospital district’s new Psychiatric Emergency Center began in October 2022 and is now “well under way,” Duncan said. Dirt
SOURCE: JPS HEALTH NETWORK/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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