JPS Auxiliary

About Us
JPS Auxiliarys Mission: The JPS Auxiliarys mission is to raise significant amounts of money to aid the John Peter Smith Hospital. The Auxiliary also provides countless hours of volunteer work to help better the quality of care for patients. JPS Health networks Vision: JPS will be recognized for its commitment to excellence in healthcare and medical education delivered with sensitivity and compassion, on time, anytime, to anyone, in Tarrant County.

JPS Auxiliary proudly fulfills 1 million dollar pledge towards the building of the Patient Pavilion (2005)

Fundraising
The Auxiliary is documented to have raised around $2,000,000., although an exact amount has not been verified. The main source of revenue since 1977 was the Tarrant County Hospital District (TCHD) Gift Shop, until the doors were closed in 2013. Other venues for fundraising include: o o o o o o o Rummage Sales (1950s) Craft and bake sales Galas/Balls Luncheons Fashion shows City Races: Hot Footin for JPS (1980s) Donations

Contact Us
Phone: 817-702-1590 Email: LSmith12@jpshealth.org Web: http://www.jpshealthnet.org/AboutJPS/JPS-Foundation/Auxiliary-provideshelping-hands.aspx

JPS AUXILIARY

JPS AUXILIARY
1500 S Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76104

1948 - 2014

A closer look at those who made the Auxiliary possible:

Former President Myrtle McMahan
Myrtle volunteered 22 years with the Auxiliary. Out of those years she spent about 8 of them as a volunteer midwife assistant, helping women go through the miracle of birth. This is just one of the countless ways that the Auxiliary has been able to give back to the community.

Auxiliary members take a break from delivering Christmas Gifts to pose with a physician (2004)

Members of the Womens Auxiliary preparing for a rummage sale circa 1950s

Accomplishments/Programs/Institutions
o (1996) The newly re-founded and renamed JPS Auxiliary helped launch the Psychiatric Unit. Christmas Gift Program (founded in 1990): About 500 stockings would be made annually and include pocket calendars, slipper socks, a deck of cards, puzzle books, and pencils.

How it all started!

The Womens Auxiliary to the City Council Hospital of Fort Worth was organized on March 24th of 1948 and has evolved into the John Peter Smith (JPS) Auxiliary. Throughout those 66 years of hard work and unwavering dedication, the Auxiliary has accomplished an incredible amount of work, and has raised a staggering amount of money. This not only kept JPS standing, but also thriving. The Auxiliary is a separate branch of the JPS Volunteer group. The original purpose of the Auxiliary was to provide a link between the general public and what used to be. Some of the earlier goals were to provide care and comfort to the polio patients. The prestigious role of the JPS Auxiliary President actually experienced many face changes throughout the years, even annually! The middle panel highlights the last former president.

My Volunteer work (with JPS

Auxiliary) has been the most rewarding thing Ive done in my entire life Myrtle McMahan, former president (2013)

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1 million dollar fulfilled pledge for Patient Pavilion (2005). JPS School-Based Health Center Everman was financed in 2010. $175,000 were raised and donated to the then-new Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Numerous donations to JPS [as a whole and departments within] and external JPS programs: For new equipment, help with budgets, funding for outside clinics, etc.

Doris Smith and Myrtle McMahan both former presidents of the Auxiliary