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This holiday season, Las Vegas Trail area residents are experiencing a new chapter of wellness and hope, thanks to an award-winning collaboration bringing health services close to their west Fort Worth neighborhood, which has long been known as both …

The desire to help others goes back to when Ashoo Rao, M.D. was three years old and watched her parents take care of their patients. Dr. Rao’s mother, an obstetrician and gynecologist in India, cared for the underserved population and moved to …

Food insecurity affects the pediatric population from their time in utero until adulthood.  Mothers unable to consume adequate calories and a variety of healthy foods can lead to low birth weight infants and birth defects.  Breastfeeding mothers …

The transformation of the Las Vegas Trail corridor isn’t the work of one person. It’s the result of community and collaboration, and many have played a role in making way for the area’s newest addition—the neighborhood health center serving the Las …

For two decades, the residents of Las Vegas Trail (LVT) in west Fort Worth have lived in a food and health care desert. The slow decline of the area since the 1993 closing of Carswell Air Force Base—once the economic anchor of the neighborhood—made …

The new neighborhood health center serving the Las Vegas Trail area isn't just a place for healing—it's also a hub for safety, thanks to the addition of a Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) storefront. The storefront will be home to FWPD’s Crime …

The new neighborhood health center in Las Vegas Trail is the product of a historic collaboration between Cook Children’s Health Care System, JPS Health Network, the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, LVTRise and WestAid Food Pantry, with additional …

JPS Health Network and Cook Children’s Health Care System have been beacons of health and hope in Tarrant County for well over a century. Now, for the first time, the two organizations have linked arms and unified their resources to deliver …

Sky Ramos, CHW, is blazing new trails for Cook Children’s Health Plan. As the organization’s first-ever clinic-based community health worker (CHW), Ramos will provide in-person guidance at the new neighborhood health center serving the Las Vegas …

West Aid Food Pantry has been a staple in Southwest Fort Worth for 40 years, helping to fill the plates of those unsure of where their next meal would come from. Over the years, this vital food-security resource has relocated several times to …

Giant butterflies, flowers and children’s handprints decorate the outdoor mural that greets visitors to the new neighborhood health center serving the Las Vegas Trail community.The mural’s vibrant colors and lively design – painted with the help of …

Why is the neighborhood health center in Las Vegas Trail significant?The opening of the neighborhood health center in Las Vegas Trail officially ends three decades of this area (zip codes 76116 and 76108) being a health care desert.Why was Las Vegas …

The fifth and final week of our 30 Days of Wellness events at the neighborhood health center in Las Vegas Trail was filled with education and community.For the last week, Cook Children’s Center for Community Health provided mindfulness games and …

A medication that protects babies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is available now at Cook Children’s physician offices and neighborhood clinics.It’s a dose of antibodies that works right away to help fight off severe RSV infection for at …

In 2023, the Neighborhood Health Centers saw 125,761 patient visits across the seven locations. More than 50% of those patients were on Cook Children’s Health Plan.