Press Releases

The Cooper Foundation and Cooper Chairman George E. Norcross III Establish Relief Fund to Help Employees of Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center Following Hurricane Harvey

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Cooper Chairman George E. Norcross III Kicks Off Fund with $5,000 Donation

The Cooper Foundation, George E. Norcross III, and Cooper University Health Care, which operates MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, have established a relief fund to provide support to employees of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston following the hurricane that struck this week. Read more.

Ripa Center Offers New Integrative Medicine Program for Women

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The Ripa Center for Women’s Health and Wellness at Cooper is offering a new integrative medicine program.

“The Cooper Integrative Medicine Program for Women is committed to serving and healing the whole person by addressing the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and environmental influences that affect a woman’s health,” according to David M. Nocchi, MD, who will lead the program along with Meena R. Read more.

Cooper Trauma Nurse Earns Pat Tillman Foundation Award to Support Studies at Rutgers–Camden Nursing School

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Cooper trauma nurse Laura Tolver, RN, of Edgewater Park, has been named a Tillman Scholar by the Pat Tillman Foundation. A student currently enrolled in the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program at Rutgers University–Camden, she is one of only five nursing students nationwide, and only 61 students overall, to earn this highly competitive scholarship this year.

Tolver is one of two students attending Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, to receive this award. Read more.

Pediatricians Join Staff at Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper

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Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper University Health Care recently appointed David G. Bruner, MD, FAAP, and Jillian Gormley, DO, to the staff.

Previously, Dr. Bruner was a general pediatrician at AdvoCare Laurel Pediatrics, Sewell, NJ. Dr. Bruner completed his residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children where he was awarded the Robert Baird award for excellence in teaching, a spirit of inquiry, and compassion for patients and their families. Read more.

Cooper Congratulates MD Anderson Cancer Center on #1 Cancer Hospital Ranking

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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is once again ranked the nation’s top hospital for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” survey. Since the survey began in 1990, MD Anderson has been named one of the top two cancer hospitals, and it has ranked first 13 times in the last 16 years.

MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, which partnered with the world-renown institution in October 2013, is one of seven clinically integrated partner institutions in the United States. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care Named Most Wired 2017

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Most Wired Hospitals Use Technology to Partner With Patients on Health

For the sixth time, Cooper University Health Care has been named one of the nation’s most wired hospitals by the annual Health Care’s Most Wired® survey developed by the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum. According to the survey, now in its 19th year, the hospitals listed are those who make it easier for patients and providers to interact, thus improving communication, safety, and patient-provider relationships. Read more.

Cooper Honors Haddonfield Nurse with DAISY Award

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Cooper University Health Care recently recognized Diane Werner, RN, of Haddonfield, NJ, with The DAISY Award for providing exceptional nursing care. Diane works as a nurse in Cooper’s Post Anesthesia Care Unit and was nominated by the family of a recent patient.  She was cited for her professional care, compassion and advocacy on behalf of the patient following several recent surgeries. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care becomes third health system in the nation to offer whole-blood transfusions for massively bleeding trauma patients

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Studies show whole-blood transfusion offers greater benefits for treating hemorrhagic shock

Cooper University Health Care, South Jersey’s only Level I Trauma Center, is the third academic tertiary care health system in the United States to offer whole blood transfusions for trauma patients who present with massive bleeding and hemorrhagic shock. Trauma centers are the only hospitals to offer whole blood transfusions. Read more.

Cooper Foundation Receives $2.2 Million Donation to Fund Cell Research

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The Cooper Foundation has received a gift of $2.2 million to fund specialized research at Cooper University Health Care to explore the role of a unique line of cells in certain cancers, wound healing, and vision. The donation will also facilitate expansion of basic science research at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

The funding was provided by a grateful former patient of Richard D. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care’s Level 1 Trauma Center Receives Verification From the American College of Surgeons

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Cooper University Health Care has received reverification as a Level I Trauma Center and a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Cooper, one of only three state-designated Level I trauma centers, is celebrating its 130th anniversary this year,  and has been serving South Jersey as the state-designated Level I trauma center for 35 years. Read more.