Care at clinics
Star-Telegram
The JPS Health Network is continuing to expand its services in Northeast Tarrant County -- a valuable service to the community and a godsend to people who need healthcare yet lack the ability to pay.
JPS, with help from Richland Hills Church of Christ, NorthWood Church in Keller and the Christian Center of Fort Worth, has opened a new clinic in Haltom City -- its second in the Birdville school district.
Like the school-based clinics in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford and Grapevine-Colleyville school districts, the Birdville clinics treat students and their siblings up to age 18. For a $5 office fee, the clinics aim to serve patients who are underinsured or on Medicaid and who do not have a private doctor.
Students and their siblings from nearby Fort Worth district schools also are expected to use the new clinic.
JPS also operates a full-service clinic in Bedford. The system has three school-based centers in Fort Worth, one in White Settlement and one in Arlington. Its center in Grapevine was announced just last September.
The mission for JPS includes providing healthcare regardless of the patient's ability to pay. The system's expansion efforts in Northeast Tarrant County are appreciated by local residents and help to fulfill that mission in Northeast Tarrant's pockets of poverty.
