Press Releases

Cardiac Partners Structural Heart team celebrated the 100^th successful implantation of the lifesaving Mitral Clip. The Mitral Clip is a device for high-risk heart patients who have a severe form of leaky mitral valve disorder, called mitral regurgitation, and who were deemed too frail or sick to undergo open heart surgery. This new FDA-approved treatment was first offered at Cooper in the Spring of 2019. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care today announced that it has been recognized by Healthgrades as a 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipient. This distinction places Cooper among the top 5% of all short-term acute care hospitals as evaluated by Healthgrades, the leading marketplace connecting patients and providers. Cooper has received the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for four consecutive years (2019-2022) and is the only hospital in South Jersey to achieve the award in 2022. Read more.

New facility located in the Emergency Department will offer rapid treatments  

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Cooper University Health Care’s Neurological Institute is transforming neurological care in the region with the opening of a new, dedicated Acute Stroke and Neuro Interventional Suite within its Emergency Department – the first of its kind in the nation. Cooper is the first comprehensive stroke center in the United States equipped with the latest generation Siemens Healthineers biplane angiography suite integrated with a CT scanner, providing fully integrated surgical image guidance for minimally invasive treatment of strokes. Read more.

Thank you to First Harvest Credit Union for providing lunch for some of our hardworking team members on the frontlines this week.  Members of Cooper’s Nursing Leadership team were on hand to greet Ernest Huggard, CPA, president and CEO of First Harvest (fourth from right) and Kenneth Barnshaw, senior vice president of external relations of First Harvest (far right), as they delivered the meals. Read more.

Recently, Cooper’s Military, Diplomatic, and Field Surgical Affairs held its 2ndAdvanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) course with Cooper surgical residents, trauma fellows, medical students, U.S. Army OR Techs, LPNs, EMTs and Army health care providers assigned to Cooper participating. Nearly 40 participants spent an intensive day of learning about advanced surgical trauma care in Cooper Medical School of Rowan University’s Anatomy Laboratory with instruction from Cooper’s highly skilled trauma team. Read more.

Members of the New Jersey Italian American Police Society visited Cooper University Health Care to pay tribute to nurses for their efforts throughout the pandemic by donating a supply of collectible toy Hess trucks. Nurses at Cooper will have a chance to win one of the trucks to give to a child in their life through a special giveaway.

“We want to thank the New Jersey Italian American Police Society for thinking of Cooper with this special gift. Read more.

Team members at Cooper University Health Care recently enjoyed a special lunch as a thank you to frontline health care workers courtesy of the good folks at Cherry Hill Imports Auto Group.

Over a period of several days, representatives from Cherry Hill Imports Auto Group provided more than 300 meals for a number of Cooper team members in clinical units hit particularly hard during the recent COVID-19 surge. Read more.

To help the community prevent the spread of COVID-19, Cooper University Health Care will provide 200,000 non-medical grade KN95 masks to be distributed throughout Camden with the assistance of the Camden County Metro Police and Sheriff’s Departments.

The masks are not appropriate for clinical settings in hospitals and were purchased early in the pandemic when there was a significant shortage of all types of masks.   Read more.

Cooper University Health Care has launched a new Section of Endocrine Surgery, and has appointed distinguished endocrine specialist Lisa Reid, MD, as the inaugural section head of the department.

The new Section of Endocrine Surgery will provide specialized treatment for patients with a wide range of endocrine diseases including diabetes, Cushing’s syndrome, Grave’s disease, goiters, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and adrenal and thyroid cancers among other conditions. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care is the first hospital in New Jersey to offer the Siemens SOMATOM, the latest generation of portable CT scanners.

Portable CT scanners allow critically ill or medically fragile patients to receive a CT scan without having to leave the bedside or be moved.

“As a leading academic health system, we treat some of the most complex and critically ill patients. Read more.