Tarrant County’s public hospital agreed to pay its former chief financial officer $900,000 in severance after it fired her in October, according to records obtained by the Star-Telegram. Sharon Clark, ...

JPS leaders butted heads Thursday over a surprise decision by Tarrant County commissioners to lower the hospital’s tax rate. JPS Health Network, the county’s public hospital system, usually gets about ...

The full cost of the JPS bond program, which will pay for a brand new hospital, psychiatric emergency center and more, will cost $2.1 billion, consultants working with the hospital said Thursday. The ...

JPS Health Network will open its new psychiatric emergency center next week, expanding desperately needed treatment to those in need. The psychiatric emergency center is the hospital’s first major ...

Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network, a 582-bed system, is likely to go over a $1.5 billion budget for new capital projects, according to an Aug. 18 Fort Worth Star-Telegram report. Such ...

Tarrant County commissioners surprised the leaders of the county’s public hospital Tuesday by lowering its tax rate to 18.25 cents per $100 of assessed value, down from the previously planned rate of ...

The board of directors for Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network unanimously voted to award President and CEO Robert Earley a $95,000 raise, bringing his total salary to $620,000, according to a ...

The JPS Board of Managers passed a $1.77 billion operating budget Thursday, as the hospital continues to treat more and more patients as the county grows. The budget for 2026 is a 3.9% increase from ...

The absence of two Tarrant County commissioners delayed the planned decrease of the hospital tax rate. Commissioners Roderick Miles Jr. and Alisa Simmons were not in attendance at the Sept. 16 meeting ...

An investigation is underway after an inmate died after being transported from the Tarrant County Jail to John Peter Smith Hospital on Monday. On Dec. 2, 2024, the 51-year-old inmate passed away at ...

Police in Fort Worth, Texas, have arrested a woman who allegedly stole a mortuary van with a body inside. Police have identified the woman as 36-year-old Valerie Traglor-Ellis of Azle. The Fort Worth ...