Courtesy of JPS
The future site of new patient rooms, a utility plant, and other facilities as part of JPS' $800 million expansion and renovation
Plans are in motion for a major renovation and expansion of JPS Health Network, part of the $800 million Bond Construction Program that Tarrant County voters approved in 2018.
Big-picture plans include building new patient towers, an ambulatory surgery center, and a psychiatric hospital.
But, before any of those projects can start, JPS first needs to resolve an issue it's dealt with ever since its main campus opened 83 years ago, according to a JPS newsletter: parking.
JPS is currently seeking requests for proposals on about a dozen projects, which include additional parking lots — specifically, a new parking lot on the former site of the Hemphill Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic, which must first be torn down; the addition of two new levels to the Patient Care Pavilion parking garage; and a parking lot on the green space near the Morphy Street parking structure.
Other projects in the works are an expansion of the Patient Care Pavilion; several infrastructure-related projects; and a new medical home, whose location is yet to be determined. The medical home is one of four facilities that JPS hopes to build across Tarrant County, "bringing one-stop medical care to people in the communities where they live," according to the health network.
Darrick Walls, senior project manager for Broaddus & Associates, co-project manager with the LeVis Group, says he's looking to award a contract for the Hemphill demolition job as soon as September, followed by a deal to design and build the new parking garage around December. Between January and February 2022, JPS expects to have contracts awarded for the medical home project, the green space parking lot, a central utility plant, the Patient Pavilion expansion, and further Patient Pavilion upgrades to the nurse call system, fire alarms, and various building controls.
Longer-term goals include an expansion of the emergency department, interventional radiology, and surgical area, along with a corridor connecting the Patient Pavilion to the new patient towers and other forthcoming facilities.
More information is available at yestojps.org.
