Have you noticed the 24 young adults, dressed in business suits, who assemble in the Roberts Pavilion at the crack of dawn on Friday mornings? Perhaps you’ve seen them touring the hospital or waiting outside the Sim Lab on Kelemen 9? These men and women are among the approximately 300 students who are being interviewed for one of the 50 spots in the charter class of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU).

Cooper University Hospital congratulates the Camden Coalition which has been awarded $3.45 million award from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to allow the Coalition to build upon their already successful Diabetes Collaborative by intensely focusing on 2-3 primary care practices that will each receive tens of thousands of dollars in human, clinical, technological, and financial resources over the next 5 years.

Cooper University Hospital would like to congratulate Patty A. Vitale, MD, MPH, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Cooper, on the release of her first book: Population Based Nursing: Concepts and Competencies for Advanced Practice.

New moms, who are Cooper University Hospital employees, will now have a new comfortable and safe environment to pump milk after returning to work from maternity leave. In its continued efforts to join the global Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, Cooper has created a Lactation Lounge where employees can continue a breastfeeding routine that works for them and their babies.

CAMDEN, N.J.—On Sunday morning, November 6, 2011, the historic Ben Franklin Bridge will close to allow thousands of runners and walkers to participate in this year’s Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge, presented by AmeriHealth New Jersey.

The newly formed Domestic Violence Response Team at Cooper University Hospital is the only one of its kind in the state. The all-volunteer team, which was created in conjunction with the Camden County Women’s Center, makes Cooper the only hospital in New Jersey with a dedicated Domestic Violence Response Team.

More than 100 staffers turned out for a festive ceremony to announce the winners of the Core Values and Action Flag Competition, held in Cafeteria B on October 26, 2011.

On Thursday, October 27, 2011, the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper, along with the Planetree Patient Interaction Team gave the gift of reading this Halloween by providing pediatric patients with children’s books donated by employees at Cooper.

South Jersey residents have voted, and for the seventh straight year Cooper University Hospital has received the Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation (NRC). The 2011/2012 award identifies hospitals which consumers have chosen as having the highest quality of care in the region.

This week’s “Cooper Connection” in the Courier-Post featured an article written by Rick Hong, MD, Head, Division of Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine at Cooper