John Peter Smith Hospital

John Peter Smith Hospital (also known as JPS Hospital) is a Level 1 trauma center, 573-bed county hospital located in Fort Worth, Texas that provides inpatient, outpatient and behavioral healthcare.

John Peter Smith Hospital is part of the tax-supportedJPS Health Network of the Tarrant County Hospital District.

The hospital has an Emergency Department, Trauma Services Department, Urgent Care Center and is home to the county’s only Psychiatric Emergency Center.

Established in 1906, the hospital is named for John Peter Smith, a former mayor of Fort Worth.

The hospital is the only Level I Trauma Center in Tarrant County.

The facilities at 1500 Main Street on Fort Worth’s Near Southside, include a Patient Care Pavilion – a five-story acute care facility - an outpatient care center and a dedicated facility for psychiatric services.

JPS is a teaching hospital and trains nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers.

JPS is home to ACGME and AOA accredited residency programs including a Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Psychiatry, Orthopedics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Podiatry, and Transitional Year. It also is the main teaching hospital for the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. In addition, the hospital supports the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center oral/maxillofacial residency and Baylor University Medical Center general surgery residency programs. In June 2011, the hospital welcomed its first batch of emergency medicine residents. The first class of emergency medicine residents graduated in June 2014.

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