Today at approximately 2:25am there was an internal flooding event that occured in one of the buildings at Cooper University Hospital. The incident was quickly responded to and assesment of damage continues throughout the morning.

The Star Ledger published an article about mother’s who are unable to nurse and are turning to online websites to find other women willing to share their breast milk. Sites such as milkshare.birthingforlife.com have grown in popularity as they connect families and provide information on milk sharing.

Campbell’s Soup has launched a $10 million initiative that will target reducing childhood obesity in Camden children over the next 10 years.

Cooper University Hospital welcomes Eli T. Winkler as Senior Vice President for Growth and Development. He joins Cooper most recently from McKinsey and Company, a global strategy consulting company, where he was a manager of a wide range of projects including international mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, strategic positioning and major investments.

Hundreds more women from throughout Camden County will have access to breast health education and screening thanks to the Avon Foundation Breast Health Outreach Program’s renewed support of the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program at Cooper (Cooper CEED).

In a medical emergency, time is of the essence, especially when it comes to your heart. A new software called LifeNet is being implemented at Cooper University Hospital to shorten the length of time between identifying a heart attack and providing potentially life-saving treatment.

Today, Cooper University Hospital placed a Revo MRI™ SureScan® pacing system into a patient. This is the first MR-Conditional pacing system designed, tested and FDA approved for use in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) environment.

Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) is joining with Cooper University Hospital to help bring substantial energy efficiency improvements to the 600-bed healthcare facility. Funding for the work is through the PSE&G Hospital Efficiency Program, which made $79 million available to perform energy efficiency upgrades at hospitals in the utility’s service territory.

Injuries and sports go hand-in-hand, which is why WIP/Philadelphia has turned to the Cooper Bone and Joint Institute over the past few months for answers to the sports medicine questions on every listener's mind.

The February issue of SJ Magazine featured an article about life saving medical advances in emergency cardiac care. Therapeutic hypothermia is a treatment used on cardiac arrest patients. After a patient is resuscitated, they are cooled so that their core body temperature drops in order to prevent brain damage caused by the heart stopping.