Great story from today’s Courier-Post about Patricia Pearlman, who spent her afternoon helping to bake 1,500 batches of cupcakes for a sale to benefit Clare’s Cupboard and her evening accepting an award as Cooper’s 2010 Nurse of the Year.

To date, Clare’s Cupboard has helped over 100 families and raised more than $50,000.  The program, which Pearlman founded two years ago, continues to grow and has recently expanded it’s donations for pediatric patients in the trauma department and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Read the full story

On Sunday and Monday, over 100 Cooper employees and local volunteers will be trading in their work uniforms for aprons and chef hats as they prepare for our annual Clare’s Cupboard bake sale.

Since its creation two years ago, Clare’s Cupboard has raised more than $50,000 dollars used towards the purchase of basic baby supplies for struggling new mothers and infants in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Cooper cares for over 450 NICU patients a year and we have already helped nearly 100 families leave our hospital with new baby clothes, bottles, wipes, toys, diapers and other essentials.

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Cooper University Hospital is proud to announce the 2010 Nurse of the Year, Patricia Pearlman, R.N., R.N.C., staff nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

This prestigious, peer-nominated award recognizes a nurse whose leadership and practice promotes the delivery of quality healthcare at Cooper.

“I am truly honored to have been chosen for this award,” said Pearlman. “This is an exciting time to be a nurse at Cooper and I’m grateful to be a part of such a wonderful nursing staff.”

Pearlman, of Cherry Hill, N.J., graduated from St. Francis Medical Center School of Nursing, Trenton, NJ in 1986. She came to Cooper in 1988 as a full time staff nurse in the Intermediate Intensive Care Unit (IICU). Since then, she worked as a staff nurse in several departments including Anesthesia, Critical Care Unit (CCU), Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Although she has excelled in every position she has held, her passion lies in providing direct patient care to mothers and their newborn infants in the NICU.

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