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Two Women Rescued From Ft. Worth House Fire Critically Injured
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Two women are in critical condition after being rescued from a house fire in the 4300 block of Martin Street in Southeast Fort Worth...
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Tweet Chat Aimed At Saving Infants Lives
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Tarrant County’s four major hospitals will come together to try to save the lives of infants. Cook Children’s Medical Center is launching...
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Twitter Chat To Address Safe Infant Sleeping
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Several hospitals across North Texas will come together Tuesday to make a statement, centered around how your infant is sleeping. Cook...
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Witness To Teen Girl Stabbing At School Speaks
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBS11) – An O.D. Wyatt High School student who didn’t want to be identified says he was inside the gym when a fight broke out between two girls. That...
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Tarrant County Jailer Hospitalized After Alleged Attacked By Inmate
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A man who lost his leg to a train while trying to evade police in November 2015, attacked a jailer Wednesday afternoon according to the...
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Long A Niche, Street Medicine For Homeless Heads Mainstream
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter ALLENTOWN, Pa. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — They’re house calls without the house. Far from the sterile confines of a doctor’s office or hospital, Brett Feldman looks for...
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Fort Worth Officer Out Of Surgery, In ICU
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBS11) – Sources tell CBS11 News the injured officer suffered three gunshot wounds and underwent surgery. Those wounds to Officer Matt Pearce are in...
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Support Continues To Grow For Ft. Worth Officer After Being Shot
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBS11) – Support for injured Fort Worth police officer Matt Pearce and his family continues to grow three days after he was shot multiple times in the...
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A Setback For Fort Worth Officer Pearce
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Officer Matthew Pearce’s wife posted details on Facebook Tuesday on her husband’s health. Fort Worth Police says it received permission...
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Hospitalized Fort Worth Officer Making Progress
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The news keeps getting better, slowly but surely, for the Fort Worth officer shot in the line of duty three weeks ago. The latest update...
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Teen Dies After Saginaw Shooting
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter SAGINAW (CBSDFW.COM) – A 17-year-old Saginaw boy died Saturday after he was shot during a fight with at least one other person outside his home. Police responded...
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Teen Survives Three Gunshots To The Head
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – An 18-year-old woman who had recently moved to Fort Worth from Illinois, was left for dead at an East Fort Worth home. She was brutally...
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Up-Close Look At Real Life In Trauma Unit
A special report on the people who walk that line between life and death.
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Fort Worth Police Seek Man Who Shot Tow Truck Driver
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Fort Worth are searching for a man who they say shot a tow truck driver who was trying to tow away his car. It happened on the...
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Woman Meets Trauma Team That Saved Her Life
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – It was a powerful moment. Courtney Utter stepped into an empty room on the second floor of JPS Hospital, and inside, were three of the...
View Article2 Officers Hurt During Arlington Standoff
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Arlington Police say a shootout between their SWAT team and suspects inside a home in the 4300 block of Kelly Hill Drive in south Arlington on Tuesday evening has left one...
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Flu Clinics Hit The Road To Reach The Needy
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Providers with the JPS Health Network are bringing flu prevention and treatment to those who need it most. A nurse draws a dose of flu vaccine. (credit: Tim Boyle/Getty...
View ArticleTarrant County Voters Approve $800M Hospital District Bond
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Tarrant County voters on Tuesday approved Proposition A, authorizing the issuance of $800 million in bonds to acquire, construct, improve, equip or enlarge facilities of the...
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JPS Hospital Worker Ends Up In ER After Elevator Accident
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – An employee at John Peter Smith Hospital was injured Sunday in an elevator accident, according to a spokesperson for the trauma center. The elevator was taken out of service...
View ArticleMore Problems For Elevator Maintenance Company That Serves JPS Hospital...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The elevator maintenance company criticized after a serious incident at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, is also named in lawsuits for other elevator accidents in...
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Documents Detail Extensive History Of Elevator Problems At JPS Hospital
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The hospital elevator that crushed a nurse at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth in January may not be an isolated incident. Documents obtained by CBS 11 show a long...
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JPS Hospital On Elevator Malfunctions: ‘We Hire Elevator Experts, We Thought...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – John Peter Smith Hospital on Friday responded to elevator safety concerns after a nurse was seriously injured in an elevator there in January. On Thursday, a CBS 11...
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JPS Hospital Nurse Seriously Injured In Elevator Malfunction Moved Out Of ICU
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The John Peter Smith Hospital nurse who was seriously injured during an elevator malfunction at the hospital last month is doing better, but still has a long way to go. Nurse...
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JPS Urged By Contractor Not To Repair Elevators Themselves Days Prior To...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The elevator company responsible for the elevators at John Peter Smith Hospital, ThyssenKrupp, sent a cease-and-desist letter to the trauma center just days before an accident...
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Haltom City Officer Saves Woman From Overdose On Valentine’s Day
HALTOM CITY (CBSDFW.COM) – A woman who overdosed on heroin was brought back from the brink of death by Haltom City police officers on Valentine’s Day. First responders found the 32-year-old woman on...
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JPS Hospital Terminates Contract With Elevator Service Provider In Wake Of...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth has terminated thyssenkrupp as its elevator service provider, effective May 14. The elevator service company confirmed that in an email...
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Woman Injured In JPS Elevator Sues Hospital, Former Maintenance Provider
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – JPS Hospital is facing a new lawsuit from another person who says she was seriously hurt riding in a hospital elevator a couple of years ago. Patricia Price of Arlington says...
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JPS Hospital Declares ‘Code Yellow’ For Higher Than Usual ER Demand
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – JPS Health Network has declared a Code Yellow situation because of a higher than usual demand for Emergency Department services. According to Executive Vice President and...
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Report: Brake Failure To Blame For JPS Hospital Elevator Accident That...
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A newly-released state report concluded that brake failure is to blame for an elevator accident that critically injured a nurse at Fort Worth’s John Peter Smith...
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Drug ‘Take Back’ Boxes Installed At North Texas Hospital To Battle Opioid...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Methodist Dallas Medical Center has installed drug “take back” boxes as part of an effort to battle opioid addiction. The hospital has two secure boxes, one located in the...
View ArticleFort Worth Food Fight: Organization Asks JPS Hospital Not To Renew McDonald’s...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – There’s a food fight at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth regarding a McDonald’s restaurant inside the facility. A national physician’s organization has filed a...
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Fort Worth Nurse Injured In JPS Hospital Elevator Incident Files $1M...
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – A Fort Worth nurse who was seriously injured by a JPS Hospital elevator has filed a negligence lawsuit against Thyssenkrupp Elevator Co., charging that the company...
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3 Injured After Wrong Way Driver Causes Multi-Vehicle Crash On Interstate-30
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A driver going the wrong direction on Interstate 30 caused a crash involving several vehicles. The accidents happened just after midnight near the Ridgmar Mall. The wrong way...
View ArticleCoronavirus: JPS Hospital Closes All School-Based Clinics
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – JPS is closing all of their school-based clinics, effective March 27 due to the coronavirus pandemic. This includes closing the two clinics located in HEB ISD at 3115 Pipeline...
View ArticleTarrant County Jail Inmate Dies Of Coronavirus After 3 Weeks In Hospital
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A Tarrant County Jail inmate died of COVID-19 and underlying health conditions, the Sheriff’s Office announced Monday evening. The 67-year-old inmate died Saturday, May 23....
View ArticleNorth Texas Doctors Urging Residents To Avoid Large Crowds July 4th Weekend
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – With positive virus cases still rising, hospitals are looking ahead to the holiday weekend and are urging people to avoid large celebrations where the virus could get a...
View ArticleTarrant County Jail Inmate Dies Of Coronavirus
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office confirmed an inmate died at the hospital on Monday, Nov. 9 due to COVID-19 and underlying medical conditions. The 60-year-old man, who was...
View ArticleTexas Rangers Investigating After Tarrant County Inmate Dies At Hospital
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office confirmed an inmate died at John Peter Smith Hospital on Monday, Dec. 7. The inmate had been in the hospital since Nov. 24. The Sheriff’s...
View ArticleTarrant County Jail Inmate Dies In Hospital From ‘Medical Emergency Related...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said an inmate died at John Peter Smith Hospital on Saturday, Dec. 19, due to a medical emergency related to COVID-19. The inmate was a...
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JPS Chaplain Service Working Nonstop To Help Frontline Workers Keep The Faith...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – I know a lot of health care workers. The stories I’ve heard over the last 10 months are often surreal. I can’t imagine their daily jobs in normal times, with life often...
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