JPS Health Networks opens new outpatient center

JPS Health Network celebrated the opening of its new Healing Wings Outpatient Center on May 29 with an open house.

The new center, on the first floor of the JPS Professional Office Complex, is 2,995 square feet dedicated to providing patients interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS treatment. The clinic will start seeing patients at its new location at 1350 South Main Street on June 2.

The clinic was first opened in 1991 in the John Peter Smith Hospital, and then was moved to the Trinity Springs Pavilion in 2002. It offers primary medical care, nursing assessment and teaching, medical nutrition therapy, social case management, patient educational programs, HIV counseling and free HIV testing.

Fertility seminar offered

The Methodist Health System will be hosting a free fertility seminar on June 14 at the Methodist Mansfield Medical Center for people who want to learn more about options for starting a family.

The seminar, which will start at 10 a.m. and run until noon in conference room C, will include refreshments and the chance to learn from fertility specialists about causes of infertility, treatment options and the services offered through the Methodist Fertility Center. Local adoption representatives and experts on embryo adoption will discuss other options as well.

Those who attend the event will receive a 30 percent discount on an in vitro fertilization cycle through Methodist Health System, and those interested can register for the seminar by calling 1-877-637-4297 or online at www.methodisthealthsystem.org/events.

Stroke prevention discussed

Cardiovascular diseases are a major killer of all Americans, but African-Americans are at double the risk for stroke than other groups. On May 31, local health care professionals, city and community leaders met at the Como First Missionary Baptist Church to talk about how to prevent stroke, especially in the African-American community.

Dr. Carl Horton, a cardiologist, was on hand to speak about the medical side of stroke, and Fort Worth Rep. Marc Veasey and Mayor Pro Tem Kathleen Hicks recognized local gospel choirs participating in the Power to End Stroke Gospel Tour being held in June.

TMA names speaker

of the House of  Delegates

Dr. Stephen Brotherton, a Fort Worth orthopedic surgeon, was elected speaker of the Texas Medical AssociationÂ’s House of Delegates.

Brotherton is on the staff of Texas Health Care Bone and Joint Clinic, and has been active with the TMA in the past. He was elected to lead the policymaking body during TexMed 2008, the TMAÂ’s annual conference, but he has previously served as vice speaker of the groupÂ’s House of Delegates and chair of the Council on Health Service Organizations. In the past he has also served as president of the Tarrant County Medical Society.

Currently, Brotherton is a member of the TMA Board of Trustees and a delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates.

Coulter awarded

The manager of safety and security for Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital, Ron Coulter, was one of six area business and civic leaders given the Calvin Littlejohn Award for Men of Distinction at the Bigger and Better Business Awards in April.

Coulter was recognized by the Alpha Theta Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., which presents the award annually to men who show leadership qualities and work toward improving their communities.

Harris receives designation

Harris Methodist Continued Care Hospital earned the Pathway to Excellence hospital designation, recognizing an honor in nursing, from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The award was formerly known as the Texas Nursing AssociationÂ’s Nurse-Friendly hospital designation program.

The designation requires that hospital meet certain criteria that are fundamental to providing job satisfaction and job retention among nurses. Nurses at Harris Methodist Continued Care Hospital completed a confidential online survey, and responses as well as operating policies, procedures and management practices must reflect that the hospital valued its nursesÂ’ contributions to patient care.

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