Through a partnership with The Cooper Foundation, the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey (GSCSNJ), and Brimm Medical Arts High School in Camden, 20 Camden students visited MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper on Thursday, February 28, 2019, for a behind the scenes look at STEM-related careers.
After a tour of the state-of-the-art cancer center, students had the opportunity to hear from a radiation therapist, an infusion nurse, a clinical researcher, and Dr. Read more.
On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, volunteers from Cooper’s Innovative Delivery Care Management and Community Health teams stepped up to the plate and into the kitchen for Cathedral Kitchen. Together, the teams spent their lunch time making 397 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the organization, which is the largest emergency food provider in Camden.
Cooper’s Innovative Delivery team is comprised of our Care Management team, which supports patient self-care management for chronic conditions. Read more.
As a highly skilled breast cancer surgeon, public speaker, educator, community leader, and mother of two boys, Dr. Vivian Jolley Bea is a tireless advocate for under-served populations, determined to work toward the elimination of racial disparities in health care.
Following a highly competitive breast surgical oncology fellowship program at the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Dr. Bea joined the breast surgical oncology team at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper in 2017 where she can be found working with patients through our women’s cancer, breast cancer, dense breast, and rare cancer programs, among others. Read more.
The Helping Our Heroes program was at Collingswood Fire Department yesterday morning offering preventative screening and educating first responders about cardiovascular health, stroke risk, skin cancer and healthy habits. Pictured from right to left are Cooper’s Community Outreach Coordinator, Lorraine Sweeney; Dermatology Resident, Bilal Fawaz; Phlebotomist, Edith Trinidad-Medina; Collingswood Fire Department Chief, Keith Davis; Neuro Nurse Coordinator, Terri Yeager; Camden County Health Department Educator, Lynn Rosner; and Community and Population Health Director, Max Kursh. Read more.
Cooper University Health Care is excited to join the American Heart Association’s Little Hats, Big Hearts program this year. The American Heart Association is raising awareness about family heart health and congenital heart defects, the most common type of birth defect in the country, with support from The Children’s Heart Foundation™. Read more.
“I always believed in serving the community, and my service on the Cooper Board of Trustees is an extension of that belief. Cooper has undergone a significant transformation over the past several years, with the opening of the new medical school and the construction of the new cancer institute, and the future looks bright. I am proud to have the opportunity to be a part of it.” Read more.
For the third consecutive year, Cooper University Health Care’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in the City of Camden has responded to more emergency calls and done so with exceptional response times. Since Cooper EMS began providing service in January 2016, emergency calls have increased by 21 percent. In 2018, Cooper EMS responded within eight minutes 90 percent of the time for all advanced life support (ALS) calls. Read more.
On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, Cooper Co-President Dr. Anthony J. Mazzarelli shared the stage with Rutgers University-Camden Chancellor Phoebe A. Haddon, CMSRU Dean Dr. Annette C. Reboli, and Virtua President and CEO Dennis W. Pullin for an “Eds and Meds” panel moderated by Camden City School District Acting Superintendent Katrina McCombs. The panel was part of a larger discussion, “The Future of Camden,” presented by the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey. Read more.
Richard Selznick, PhD, licensed psychologist and Director of the Cooper Learning Center at Cooper University Health Care, addresses learning disorders in his latest book, “What to Do About Dyslexia: 25 Essential Points for Parents.” Drawing on his decades of experience in helping children who struggle with reading, spelling, and writing, Dr. Selznick has written a series of books to help parents who often feel at a loss as to how to help a child who may be struggling with these learning fundamentals and where to turn for guidance. Read more.
Our Cooper employees are always giving back to the community!
Recently team members from the Transitional Care, Infection Prevention, and Regulatory Safety departments prepared 325 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Cathedral Kitchen. Our Cooper Team also delivered supplies for them to stock the pantry with peanut butter and jelly.
Special thanks to Chantay Harris, a population health coach in the Transitional Care Department, who was able to secure a significant donation from Shop Rite of Lawnside for the sandwiches. Read more.