Staff from Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper gratefully accepted a generous donation from Erick’s Place.  The organization’s supporters collected 124 pairs of pajamas in varying sizes, along with $125 in Wawa gift cards, for pediatric patients and their families.  Pictured left to right with pajamas in hand are Valari Zee of the Child Life Program, Sabrina Umstead Smith, founder of Erick’s Place, Roosevelt Smith of Erick’s Place, and Brittany Spaeth of the Child Life Program. Read more.

On August 10, 2012, Cooper University Hospital celebrated 125 years of service to South Jersey by throwing a party for employees. The festivities included fun Olympic inspired games; wheel chair races, medicine ball throwing competitions and egg relay races. It was a monumental day for the hospital as our vision to provide the best possible care for our community continues into the next 125 years. Read more.

In “School Struggles,” the follow-up to his highly successful first book, “The Shut-Down Learner,” Dr. Richard Selznick offers perspective and understanding developed over his 25 years of working with thousands of academically struggling kids and their families.

The Cooper Foundation of Cooper University Hospital on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 will host its final “Summer in the City” concert of the season with a free evening performance by the Hector Rosado Latin Band at Lanning Square Park.

myCooper (http://m.cooperhealth.org) is a secure, online tool that connects you to your electronic medical record (EMR) from the privacy of your home at any time, day or night. The information is encrypted, which means it is stored in such a way that it can only be unscrambled after you enter the correct password.

More than 300 business, political and community leaders from throughout New Jersey joined Governor Chris Christie today to celebrate the grand opening of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University’s state-of-the-art educational building on the corner of Broadway and Benson Street in downtown Camden’s Cooper Health Sciences Campus.

“Today’s grand opening of Cooper Medical School represents a significant step forward in higher education for the state ofNew Jersey,” said Governor Chris Christie.  Read more.

Dean Katz took a reporter on a tour today through the new medical school showing the equipment and furniture moving in. The staff moved in this week as preparations continue for the arrival for the inaugural class!

Cooper University Hospital is selected as one of the first hospitals in the country to be able to offer fenestrated endografts for the treatment of aortic aneurysms with difficult anatomy not conducive to traditional endovascular repair.

The Cooper Foundation of Cooper University Hospital on Thursday, July 5, 2012 will kick off its third annual “Summer in the City” concert series with a free evening performance by “To The Max” at Cooper Commons Park.

Cooper University Hospital congratulates Edward D. Viner, MD, an internal medicine clinician for more than 45 years, in receiving the Strittmatter Award presented by the Philadelphia Medical Society. The Strittmatter Award is presented to a Philadelphia physician who has made the most valuable contributions to the healing arts.