What Does It Take To Run Tarrant County's Public Hospital?

Arlington TX

15 November, 2021

7:06 PM

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By Alexis Allison, Fort Worth Report November 15, 2021 On any given day, you might find Robert Earley, the president and CEO of JPS Health Network, roaming the halls of the hospital he's governed for the past 13 years. These weekly rounds originated with Earley, said Steve Montgomery, who chairs the financial committee for the network's board of managers. They offer connection points between the president, the patients and hospital staff — whom he knows and addresses by name. "If you're watching close enough, you're like, 'Those are really personal interactions,'" Montgomery said. "That sort of esprit de corps he's engendered is phenomenal to watch." In early November, Earley, 61, announced his retirement from the system effective in March 2022. The network's board of managers, an 11-person cohort appointed by the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, will begin a nationwide search for his replacement — someone with the chutzpah to lead the system into "what's next in health care," Montgomery said. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.