There are many moms who will be spending their Mother’s Day in the hospital this year – recovering from their own illness or at the side of a loved one. The Lauren Rose Albert Foundation/Mother’s Matter Program is helping these women feel special by donating gift baskets to mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers who are hospitalized or have a family member hospitalized at Cooper University Health Care. Read more.
Cooper University Health Care celebrated the opening of its newest Urgent Care Center in Cinnaminson – its first in Burlington County – on May 9, 2017.
Cinnaminson Township Mayor Anthony Minniti joined Cooper University Health Care President and Chief Executive Officer, Adrienne Kirby, PhD, FACHE; and, James Flowers, DO, Medical Director of Cooper Urgent Care Centers, for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Read more.
The Cooper Heart Institute recently became one of the first hospitals in the United States and the only one in the Northeast region to participate in a clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of two devices designed to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.
“Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is an irregular heartbeat that can cause blood to pool and form clots in the left atrial appendage (LAA), a small pouch on the left side of the heart,” explained Cooper cardiologist Sajjad A. Read more.
Cooper University Health Care and Deborah Heart and Lung Center announced today that the two health systems have joined forces to launch HeroCare Connect, a new service to provide convenient and expedited access to quality specialty health care for local active duty military, retirees, veterans, and their families. Military patients who are referred for specialty care will be able to see a specialist within 24 to 48 hours. Read more.
For patients who need a new aortic valve but who are poor candidates for either surgery or transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) through femoral-artery access, the Cooper Heart Institute now offers a new approach called transcaval TAVR. Read more.
Lourdes Alanis, MD, MPH, a third-year medical resident at Cooper University Health Care, won the SIR Case Competition during the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2017 Conference held in Washington, D.C., in March.
Dr. Alanis’ case presentation, titled “Aortocoronary Saphenous Vein Graft Pseudoaneurysm Presenting as an Anterior Mediastinal Mass,” was selected as the winner among the 70 cases submitted nationally. The presentation addressed the importance of a multidisciplinary approach and use of multimodalities (i.e., Read more.
On March 22, 2017, representatives of the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper visited St. Anthony of Padua School in Camden to accept a gift of handmade “heart hug” pillows to be given to hospitalized children.
The “Heart Hug” pillow project was initiated by Linda Burns, an art teacher at St. Anthony of Padua School, as a way for students and their families to engage in community service. Read more.
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. The good news is that in the last decade there has been unprecedented progress in reducing colorectal cancer incidence and death rates in the U.S. in both men and women annually. These improvements are the result of cancer prevention and early diagnosis through screening and better treatment modalities.
“Despite this encouraging news, there is still much to do,” said Steven R. Read more.
Camille P. Green, MD, an internal medicine specialist, has joined Cooper University Health Care and is now seeing patients at the Cooper Internal Medicine Office at 651 JFK Boulevard in Willingboro.
Dr. Green, who received her medical degree from UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Cooper University Hospital, Camden. Read more.