Eighth-grade students at H.B. Wilson Family School visited Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper to donate handcrafted blankets for pediatric patients. The students collected money and created the blankets as a community service project under the direction of class advisor Yvette Fullman-Everett class.

“Our students had a great time with this project while learning about things for others,” said Ms. Fullman-Everett. “The students’ goal was to brighten the day of a hospitalized child by providing a cozy blanket.” Read more.

Cooper University Health Care Board of Trustees Chairman George E. Norcross III has announced that its Three Cooper Plaza building will be renamed The John and Joyce Sheridan Health Center at Three Cooper Plaza in honor of the former president and CEO of the health care system. Mr. Sheridan joined Cooper in 2005 and served as president and CEO of The Cooper Health System from 2008 until his and his wife’s death in 2014. Read more.

Cooper University Health Care is proud to announce the fourth annual summer internship program for students interested in administrative (non-clinical) careers in healthcare.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Undergraduate Students pursuing a Bachelor’s degree (must be in their junior or senior year), or graduate students in a major, or course work related to internship.
• Minimum cumulative GPA 3.0.
• New Jersey resident.

Intern Responsibilities:

• Complete daily tasks and or project work assigned by mentor.

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Due to an external issue with our facility located at 1000 Salem Road, Willingboro, NJ, all patient appointments scheduled for today, February 15, 2017, must be rescheduled or moved to another Cooper office. We apologize for this inconvenience and will work to accommodate you as best we can until the issue with the building is resolved.

All patients scheduled for today at our 1000 Salem Road, Willingboro, NJ, office should call 609.877.1001. Read more.

Charlotte Olson decided before Christmas 2016 that she would like to do some kind of service project to help others. Inspired by the national Reach Out and Read program, Charlotte decided to collect books and donate them for hospitalized children at the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper University Health Care. Charlotte’s goal was to collect 1,000 books. She started by telling friends and neighbors and placed a large box on her family’s front porch. Read more.

The Trauma Center at Cooper University Health Care recently purchased $10,000 worth of tourniquets which will be distributed to all officers in the Camden County Police Department in conjunction with specialized bleeding control training they received from Cooper’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team.

Since it began operation in January 2016, Cooper EMS has been offering a Bleeding Control for the Injured (B-Con) course for police, fire, and school personnel as part of its community outreach efforts.  Read more.

Huntington’s Disease Society of America—New Jersey Chapter &  Cooper University Health Care Present:

Huntington’s Disease Education Day
Saturday, February 11, 2017
10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Vineland Public Library
1058 East Landis Ave.
Vineland, NJ 08360

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Dr. Amy Colcher, Clinical Care and Treatment – Cooper University Health Care
Dr. Andrew McGarry, Clinical Trials and Research – Cooper University Health Care

Free to attend, lunch included.  Read more.

The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program has awarded a $37,000 one-year grant to MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper’s Camden County Cancer Screening Project (CCCSP) to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. It is the tenth year that the program has received funding from the Avon Foundation for Women to support its work on this important health issue, and in recognition of the program’s excellence. Read more.

Jayashree Raman, senior vice president and chief information officer for Cooper University Health Care, has been named one of the nation's top health care information technology professionals by Becker's Hospital Review, a leading health care journal.

Expecting mothers who complete an online education program in New Jersey will get a free baby box. Cooper University Healthcare hospital helped develop the Baby Box University syllabus for New Jersey parents and is hosting a special Baby Box launch event today at Roberts Pavilion Lobby.