New Teen Lounge Opens at Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper

The Cooper Foundation, in partnership with the Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation and the Ravitz Family Foundation, today celebrated the opening of the new Teen Lounge at Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper.

“This new Teen Lounge is designed to be a special place for our adolescent patients, where they can take a break from their hospital stay, have fun and meet others their own age who can relate to what they are going through,” said Susan Bass Levin, President and CEO of The Cooper Foundation.  Read more.

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, MD, Chairman and Chief of the Department of Surgery and Vice President of Perioperative Services at Cooper University Health Care, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Delaware Valley Vascular Society, presented by Joseph V. Lombardi, MD, President of the Delaware Valley Vascular Society, on April 23, 2015, at the 2015 Annual Meeting held at the Union League of Philadelphia.

Cooper University Health Care is among the five major health systems in southern New Jersey, the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) and the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers that has launched the South Jersey Behavioral Health Innovation Collaborative (SJBHIC) to evaluate the current behavioral health landscape and provide innovative recommendations on how to improve the system.

The Cooper Learning Center has received a $10,000 grant from the Stan McKee Reading Foundation to provide individual learning therapy for children who have been identified in grades K, 1 and 2 as at risk for showing signs of dyslexia in the Brooklawn School District in Camden County, NJ.

On April 13, 2015, employees and staff of Cooper University Health Care “planted” 59 blue pinwheels on the front lawn of the hospital outside the Roberts Pavilion in recognition of National Child Abuse Awareness Month. The pinwheels represent the approximately 59,000 households in Camden County with children under the age of 18. In addition, the exterior of Cooper University Hospital is aglow in blue lights throughout the month of April to bring further awareness.

Our hearts are with the Sheridan family at this difficult time. Although the findings about his death and the death of Joyce are unfathomable to us, we will continue to remember John as a compassionate leader of Cooper who was committed to making positive change in Camden.

 

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Cooper was well represented at the March 24, 2015, CBS3/CW Philly 6th Annual Phone Bank for Ronald McDonald House Charities, which raised more than $1.1 million. The charity supports Ronald McDonald Houses in the region, including our Camden-based house adjacent to Cooper University Hospital.

Actress Angelina Jolie recently revealed that she had surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes two years after she underwent a double mastectomy to cut her cancer risk. According to Jolie, she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which sharply increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Her mother was diagnosed with the latter at age 49 and died seven years later.

The NIH-National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has awarded Brian W. Roberts, MD, emergency medicine physician at Cooper University Health Care and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU), a Mentored Patient-Oriented Career Development grant (K23) to study post-resuscitation partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide and neurological outcome after cardiac arrest.

Until recently, high-risk heart patients with a severe form of leaky mitral valve disorder, called mitral regurgitation, and who were deemed too frail or sick to undergo open heart surgery had few treatment choices.

Now, because of Cooper Heart Institute’s (CHI) expertise in performing minimally invasive valve techniques and clinical research experience, the CHI is one of 75 testing sites in North America  and the only site in South Jersey to be taking part in a clinical trial – the Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip Percutaneous Therapy for Heart Failure Patients with Functional Mitral Regurgitation (COAPT) trial — to evaluate the effectiveness of a minimally invasive, catheter-based procedure that uses a clip to repair the leakage. Read more.