Six years after Tarrant County voters passed an $800 million bond package, JPS Health Network celebrated the completion of the first project in its expansion plan with a special honor for a longtime county official.
JPS unveiled its $39 million Medical Home Southwest Tarrant to Fort Worth leaders during a Dec. 18 ribbon-cutting ceremony. The facility will be formally dedicated to outgoing Precinct 1 Commissioner Roy Charles Brooks, who has represented southwest Tarrant County for 20 years.
“Roy has been committed to this community, throughout the county, when it comes to health,” JPS board member Ralph Waldo Emerson Jr. told the crowd. “I really tried to get them to name it Ralph Waldo Emerson, but I felt a person who’s more fitting for this facility to be named after is my commissioner, Roy Charles Brooks.”…