The Ripa Center for Women’s Health and Wellness at Cooper, in partnership with the Renfrew Center, hosted an art exhibit to honor women fighting difficult battles with eating disorders on Tuesday, December 2, 2014.

A team of cardiothoracic surgeons, interventional cardiologists and anesthesiologists at the Cooper Heart Institute recently achieved a medical milestone by performing transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, under conscious sedation for the first time. Since then, the team has successfully performed several additional cases using this method.

Cooper University Health Care Trauma Surgeon John Chovanes, DO, received the Outstanding EMS Physician Award at the2014 New Jersey Statewide Conference on EMS 2014 held November 12-14 in Atlantic City.

Richard Selznick, PhD, Director of the Cooper Learning Center, is slated to present during the first-ever national online conference focused on dyslexia, happening Friday, December 5, 2014.

Cooper University Health Care announces the appointment of Kevin M. O’Dowd, Esq. as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer. O’Dowd, who will work directly with Cooper’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Adrienne Kirby, PhD, brings more than 17 years of executive management and legal experience to Cooper as part of the senior executive management team.

AmeriHealth New Jersey has expanded its co-branded product offering with Cooper University Health Care to include Shore Medical Center and Cape Regional Medical Center. The addition of Shore and Cape has expanded the product’s reach to also include Atlantic and Cape May counties, hence the plan’s new name: “Community Advantage.”

The initial co-branded product offering from AmeriHealth New Jersey and Cooper, called Cooper Advantage, became available in October 2013 and enrolled more than 11,500 members in the first six months. Read more.

Heart disease can be a frightening diagnosis, but the clinicians at the Cooper Heart Institute are on the cutting edge of revolutionary procedures, many of which are minimally invasive, to help treat patients and get them back to their full quality of life.

This October, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper marked the anniversary of the opening of the new cancer center and our partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 physicians, nurses, staff, executive leadership and patients gathered in the lobby of the cancer center in Camden to recognize the occasion and celebrate the many achievements of the past year.

Cooper University Health Care today announced it has been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. Cooper was recognized as part of The Joint Commission’s 2014 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety,” for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.

On Saturday, October 25, 2014, Ms. Jan Emanuel-Costley presented Susan Bass Levin, President and CEO of The Cooper Foundation, with a donation of $3,000 to benefit MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper.