Premiers July 26 at 9pm on WHYY (Philadelphia region) or your local PBS channel

Frontline will feature an interview with Jeffrey Brenner, MD, Director of the Camden Coalition and family medicine specialist at Cooper University Hospital. The program takes an inside look at the issues of urban medicine and the unique approaches that Dr. Brenner and his team are using to address “superutilizers” of the healthcare system. The program will discuss the downfalls of the healthcare system on a national level and how the Camden Coalition is working with Cooper and their team of experts to reach more patients who suffer from chronic illness and bring improved health to the community.

Find out more about the segment by visiting PBS.org.

Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television’s flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its debut on PBS as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” FRONTLINE’s stature over 28 seasons is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.

*Please note that this will be one of three segments on Tuesday’s broadcast.

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Please call Lori Shaffer, Director of Public Relations for Cooper University Hospital, at 856.382.6449.

The February issue of SJ Magazine featured an article about life saving medical advances in emergency cardiac care. Therapeutic hypothermia is a treatment used on cardiac arrest patients. After a patient is resuscitated, they are cooled so that their core body temperature drops in order to prevent brain damage caused by the heart stopping.

Paul Mass, Cooper patient, is featured in the article discussing his heart failure and how he is now back to his family life – thanks to therapeutic hypothermia.

“By inducing mild hypothermia, we make patients just cold enough to decrease inflammation of the brain, but not cold enough to be harmful,” said Stephen Trzeciak, MD, Director of the Cooper Resuscitation Center. “We’ve definitely seen striking cases of improvement.”

To read the complete article visit www.sjmagazine.net.

This week’s edition of The New Yorker published a comprehensive report highlighting the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, Jeffrey Brenner, MD, Director of the Coalition and a physician at Cooper, and its innovative approach to reducing health-care costs.

Through the creation of the Camden Coalition and his use of data mining and statistical analysis to map health-care use and expenses, Brenner and his team have helped hundreds of Camden patients better navigate the healthcare system.

Jeffrey Brenner, a physician in Camden, New Jersey, has used data mining and statistical analysis to map health-care use and expenses. His calculations revealed that just one per cent of the hundred thousand people who made use of Camden’s medical facilities accounted for thirty per cent of its costs. That’s only a thousand people—about half the size of a typical family physician’s panel of patients. In his experience the people with the highest medical costs—the people cycling in and out of the hospital—were usually the people receiving the worst care. If he could find the people whose use of medical care was highest, he figured, he could do something to help them. If he helped them, he would also be lowering their health-care costs.

To read the complete article visit The New Yorker online at newyorker.com.

On Thursday, the Asbury Park Press published an article about a medical exercise hosted by The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center known as Eagle Flag.  During the drill, various local, state and federal agencies — from municipal first-aid squads to the Federal Emergency Management Agency — respond to a scenario in which a category 3 hurricane hits the Garden State.

“There’s a lot more than trauma patients, or people with broken bones,” Rick Hong, MD, assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, said Thursday. “We’re dealing with people with diabetes, people who have strokes, people with heart conditions . . . and two babies were born yesterday.”

To read the complete article visit app.com.

Today, Cooper University Hospital unveiled its new, expanded Emergency Department (ED) with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for employees and visitors.

The new facility is 33,000 square feet and includes 36 brand new, state-of-the-art patient rooms, including: designated adult and pediatric treatment and resuscitation rooms, two private triage rooms, a separate pediatric waiting room, and two decontamination rooms.  The new walk-in entrance to the Emer gency Department has been relocated to the corner of Haddon and Benson Avenues, near the former main entrance to Cooper University Hospital.

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