This week, the Gloucester County Times published an article about Cooper’s Clinical Decision Unit, which opened in early June, and how it has improved the flow of patient care in the Emergency Department.

Last week, Michael E. Chansky, MD, Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, was featured on a segment for CBS3’s “Health Watch” discussing safety issues related to Hurricane Irene, including contaminated flood water, food spoiling, and generator dangers.

This week, CBS3 featured a story about the fateful encounter of two local physicians who met at ground zero on September 11, 2001, during the attacks on the World Trade Center. John Pryor, MD, a Philadelphia Trauma Surgeon and John Chovanes, DO, a Cooper Trauma Surgeon, both went on to serve in the military and a very close friendship was formed.

Every Wednesday, now through fall, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Cooper’s Farm Stand, on the corner of Haddon Avenue and Benson Street, is open to the Camden community and Cooper employees. The stand offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, locally made cheese, eggs and other nutritious foods from area farms.

Cooper University Hospital’s Fourth Annual Resident/Fellow Forum was held August 11 on the 10th floor of the Roberts Pavilion. Residents and Fellows in attendance represented 13 programs.

World Breastfeeding Week, August 1 -7, was the perfect time to kick off an interdepartmental partnership to earn an elite designation for Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper as a “Baby-Friendly Hospital."

Cooper’s 2011 Spirit of Planetree Award winners, whose nominations were based on recommendations from their departmental colleagues and members of other departments and disciplines. Voting from among 20 nominees, members of the Planetree Steering Committee announced the winners on August 22, 2011.

We have lived through an historic week of weather, with an earthquake and a ferocious hurricane within four days of each other. A sincere thank you to each member of our Cooper team for your work during trying times like these.

This week, the Courier-Post featured an editorial written by Paul Katz, MD, Dean of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, where he explains how the new medical school will change the face of education and health care delivery in southern New Jersey, in the Garden State and beyond.

On Sunday, Generosa Grana, MD, FACP, Head, Division of Hematology/Oncology at Cooper and Director of Cooper Cancer Institute, was a guest panelist on Caucus New Jersey with Emmy-Award winning anchor,Steve Adubato, PhD.