Residents of the Lanning Square and Cooper Plaza neighborhoods in Camden attended the KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy Family Festival at the site of the new KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy at Lanning Square located at the corner of South 5th Street and Washington Street.
The community event was sponsored by the KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy, the state’s first renaissance public school; the Cooper Foundation, the charitable arm of Cooper University Health Care; the Norcross Foundation; Center for Family Services; Cooper Medical School of Rowan University; Cooper Lanning Civic Association, Inc.; Read more.
In the rapidly evolving health care marketplace, payers and providers are forming novel relationships involving a wide variation of risk-bearing arrangements. Louis S. Bezich, Chief of Staff and Executive Director of the Center for Population Health at Cooper, was invited to be part of a prestigious panel of experts that discussed “Emerging Payer-Provider Accountable Care Models” at the Fifth National Accountable Care Organization Summit held in Washington, DC. Read more.
Cooper University Hospital’s trauma program has been re-verified as a Level 1 Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This achievement recognizes the trauma center’s dedication to providing optimal care for injured patients.
Cooper established its Level 1 Trauma Program 31 years ago and treats more than 3,000 trauma patients every year. Read more.
Cooper University Health Care achieved another milestone and was the first hospital in the United States to implant the world’s smallest and thinnest implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
ICDs are often used in patients who are diagnosed with congestive heart failure due to weak heart muscles and who are at risk of sudden death. “Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s need for nutrients and oxygen,” according to Perry J. Read more.
Hospital Data From Leapfrog Puts Cooper on Top
Cooper University Health Care has received the highest rating of the 51 participating hospitals in the Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey network for quality and safety measures calculated by The Leapfrog Group. Cooper received a $250,000 check that was presented by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (HBCBSNJ) this week. Read more.