Press Releases

Cooper University Health Care has expanded its comprehensive military training program, one of the most extensive military training programs in the nation, by collaborating with the U.S. Navy to provide clinical rotations to Navy senior anesthesia medical residents.

The program will provide a two-month visiting clinical rotation for Navy senior anesthesia medical residents currently receiving their training at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in Virginia. Read more.

Patients Can Now Be Treated with the Latest Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) Technology Using Alto® Abdominal Stent Graft System

Cooper University Health Care is now treating Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) patients with the ALTO® Abdominal Stent Graft System. On October 6, 2020, Jeffrey Carpenter, MD, Chairman and Chief, Department of Surgery and vascular surgeon performed an implant of the ALTO device in a patient on at Cooper, the first in the region. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care is the second healthcare system in the country to begin using the Heroes Health wellness app. The app was developed recently by a team led by the UNC Institute for Trauma Recovery with the help of Google Cloud, to better support the mental health of frontline workers and first responders.

The app is primarily designed to support first responders and COVID workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read more.

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Study conducted by MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researchers finds very low risk of asymptomatic cases in statewide study of cancer patients.

In the largest study of its kind reported to date, a multi-institutional group of researchers examined the presence of asymptomatic COVID-19 in cancer patients.  Read more.

Cardiac specialists at Cooper University Health Care recently achieved two recent medical firsts: The team was the first in the Philadelphia region to successfully implant Boston Scientific’s Watchman FLX^TM device, and Cooper enrolled the first patient in the OPTION clinical trial involving the same device.

The Watchman FLX is the next generation of a potentially life-changing, catheter-based (or non-surgically delivered) device designed to close the left atrial appendage. Read more.

On October 5, The Cooper Foundation announced that the Pink Roses Teal Magnolias Outdoor Brunch and Golf Outing raised $50,000 for breast and gynecologic cancer research and clinical programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper.

More than 120 guests and golfers attended the ​sold out, socially-distant outdoor brunch and nine-hole golf outing at Ramblewood Country Club in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care has opened a new 28-bed Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on the top floor of its Roberts Pavilion building to expand the academic health system’s advanced critical care capacity to 86 beds. The top floor of the building previously housed conference rooms and administrative offices.

“As the leading academic health system and only Level 1 Trauma Center in South Jersey, Cooper is the foremost provider of critical care services and this new unit will allow us expand to meet the needs of the community,” said Kevin O’Dowd, JD, co-CEO of Cooper. Read more.

The Chairman of Cooper University Health Care Board of Trustees, George E. Norcross III, announced today that The Cooper Foundation, even in the midst of a global pandemic, raised a record $1.8 million at its 10th Annual Red Hot Gala @ Home. This year’s proceeds support Cooper University Health Care’s commitment to improving the quality of life in the community and providing exceptional medical care and services for patients. Read more.