The health center that opened last year in west Fort Worth's Las Vegas Trail neighborhood handled 21,463 clinic visits in its first year, according to figures the Fort Worth Report published Thursday.
Cook Children's pediatric clinic recorded 11,324 visits and JPS Health Network's adult clinic 10,139 between July 21, 2025, and July 31, 2026, the Report said. More than half of the JPS visits were for primary care, about one in four for obstetrics and gynecology, and close to a quarter for behavioral health.
At a media day last year, a Cook Children's executive said the neighborhood had been seen as a medical desert until the 40,000-square-foot building opened.
It houses both health systems, the WestAid food pantry and a job training program under one roof, and Cook Children's Veronica Tolley told the Report that sharing a lobby lets a mother bring a newborn to one clinic and be referred to the other for her own care.
Pantry demand
WestAid distributed goods worth more than $1.7 million over the year and logged 24,158 shopping trips and lunches for people experiencing homelessness, according to the Report. Executive director Yuseff Howard said the pantry still has to turn people away. He blamed rising prices and reductions in SNAP food benefits for the jump in demand, and said WestAid lacks the volunteers to stay open longer.
He told the Report he would like to add evening hours for people who work during the day.
Howard also said many visitors do not realize the building offers both services: some pantry shoppers did not know they could see a doctor there, and some clinic patients did not know about the pantry.
