Press Releases

Camden’s “Eds and Meds” Study Shows Demand for Housing among Employees, Students

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City Perceived as Better, Expectations for Continued Improvement

The Camden Higher Education and Healthcare Task Force released market research that demonstrates demand exists for new and refurbished housing convenient to Camden workplaces and schools among the Task Force’s nine anchor institutions’ employees, medical professionals, and students. The survey of the employees and students of nine major employers and schools in the City of Camden was conducted this summer. Read more.

Cooper Board Chairman George E. Norcross, III Announces New Collaboration Providing Camden Youth with Free Medical Coding Education and Promise of Employment at Cooper

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George E. Norcross, III, Chairman of Cooper University Health Care, joined elected officials, representatives of Camden County College, Hopeworks ‘N Camden, and leaders of local agencies to announce the Cooper Health Careers Initiative (CHCI), a new education and job training program leading to employment, offered free of cost to eligible Camden residents.

“The Cooper Health Careers Initiative is another example of the commitment we all share to ensure that the people of Camden benefit from the revitalization of our city,” said Mr. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care Named “NJ Breastfeeding Friendly Worksite”

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In an effort to commend, celebrate and increase the number of NJ worksites that support breastfeeding employees, the New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition (NJBC) selected  Cooper University Health Care  as a “NJ Breastfeeding Friendly Worksite.”

Cooper was recognized for important breastfeeding supportive practices including providing the availability of reasonable breaks to express milk or to nurse their child and access to a private space for expressing milk or nursing their child.   Read more.

Cooper University Health Care receives national recognition for meritorious outcomes in surgical care from The American College of Surgeons

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Cooper University Health Care is one of 66 hospitals nationally recognized by The American College of Surgeons 2017 National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) for achieving meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care.  As a participant in ACS NSQIP, Cooper is required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collect data that directs patient safety and the quality of surgical care improvements. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care Offers to Send Medical Personnel and Supplies to Hurricane Ravaged Puerto Rico

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Cooper Chairman George E. Norcross, III and family will donate private transportation costs

Cooper University Health Care is working with federal government agencies and has offered to send a team of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals as well as needed supplies to help the people of Puerto Rico, who have been devastated by Hurricane Maria. George E. Norcross, III Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cooper, and his family have offered to underwrite the estimated $100,000 cost of transportation to Puerto Rico for the Cooper medical support team and supplies. Read more.

Freeholders institute initiative to fight public health crisis

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The Freeholder Board, local law enforcement and healthcare providers announced a new effort to increase public use and visibility of prescription drug drop boxes to combat the opioid crisis. The Camden County Addiction Awareness Task Force made it a point to install standard drop boxes located in police departments throughout the county in 2015. Now, new, mobile drop boxes located in county vehicles will begin to be deployed to events throughout the county this year. Read more.

Books and More Books: Teen Makes Special Delivery to Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper

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In February 2017, 13-year-old Charlotte Olson donated more than 1,300 books to Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper’s outpatient office in Voorhees for the Reach Out and Read program at Cooper. On September 7, Charlotte made a return visit to the office with a donation of several hundred more books towards her goal of collecting an additional 2,000 for the program.   Read more.

Cooper Surgeon First in NJ to perform minimally-invasive “GORE® TAG®” procedure to treat arch aortic aneurysms

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In early September, a surgical team at Cooper University Health Care, led by Joseph V. Lombardi, MD, FACS, head of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and director of the Cooper Aortic Center, became the first in New Jersey to perform a new minimally-invasive treatment for complicated arch aortic aneurysms.

Cooper is one of only a handful of hospi­tals in the region—and fewer than 40 nationwide—participating in a pivotal study of the GORE® TAG® Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis (TBE).   Read more.

DRPA and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper Team Up to Turn the Ben Franklin Bridge Teal in September in Recognition of Ovarian Cancer Month

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Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper are teaming up to turn the Benjamin Franklin Bridge teal in September for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.

“The purpose of the lighting is to raise awareness about ovarian cancer,” said Generosa Grana, MD, FACP, director of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper.”

“The DRPA recognizes the outstanding work that MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper is doing regarding cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment,” said John T. Read more.

Subaru and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to Deliver Blankets and ‘Gestures of Hope’ to Cancer Patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper

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Donations of blankets and messages of hope are part of ‘Subaru Loves to Care’ initiative

What: Subaru of America and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) are working together to provide much needed support and “warmth” to cancer patients and their families in communities across the country as part of the Subaru Loves to Care initiative.

Executives from Subaru of America’s corporate headquarters and LLS will deliver those messages and 100 specially made blankets to inpatients at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. Read more.