Author: Cooper University Health Care

Cooper University Health Care recently became the first hospital in New Jersey, and part of a small, select group of academic medical centers in the nation, to launch a Center for Advanced Practice (CAP) to promote and support the role of advanced practice providers in the health care continuum.

Advanced practice providers (APPs) are licensed health care professionals who work collaboratively with physicians and the care team. Read more.

The Cooper Foundation was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, to expand a program that addresses societal barriers to health care access.

The program deploys community health workers (CHWs) in Camden and surrounding counties to improve health care access, reduce inpatient hospital stays and emergency department visits, and increase behavioral and specialty care visits by addressing social barriers to health. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care welcomes four new military team members who will be stationed at Cooper as part of the Army Medical Department Military-Civilian Trauma Team Training (AMCT3) Program.

The four new team members are physician assistant Capt. John Maitha, trauma surgeon Maj. Robert DesPain, MD, emergency medicine physician Maj. Michael Lajeunesse, MD, and paramedic Sgt. 1^st Class Kevin Hayen. Read more.

October 4, 2023, marks the 10^th anniversary of the opening of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, a clinically integrated partnership between Cooper University Health Care and MD Anderson Cancer Center that has transformed cancer care in the region. With more than a million patient visits, MD Anderson at Cooper has become a leading cancer center providing New Jersey residents with advanced cancer care close to home. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care is proud to announce that it has received 2023-2024 Star Performer recognition from the American Orthopaedic Association’s (AOA) Own the Bone® program for the seventh consecutive time. Cooper is one of approximately 280 health care institutions nationwide that have joined Own the Bone and taken initiatives to ensure their osteoporotic fracture patients receive the highest level of treatment and care. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care has introduced a new program to help military veterans improve their access to health care using tablet devices.

The program, funded by a $62,000 grant from Federal Communications Commission, will provide tablets to veterans who have difficulty getting to care at Cooper or Deborah Heart and Lung Center.  Many veterans live in rural communities or have transportation challenges so the tablets, pre-loaded with virtual links (MyChart and TelaDoc), to support their health care needs and allow them to communicate and have virtual visits with their providers. Read more.

Researchers at Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) recently received a two-year grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to study disparities in doctor-patient relationships. Specifically, the study will use a scale that the researchers previously developed and validated to measure patients’ experience of compassion from doctors during clinic visits, and test for disparities in compassion by patient race and ethnicity as well as patient socioeconomic status. Read more.