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.

Jeffrey C. Brenner, MD, Medical Director of the Urban Health Institute at Cooper University Health Care and Executive Director of the Camden Coalition, has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM). The IOM announced the names of 70 new members and 10 foreign associates during its 43rd annual meeting. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Read more.

Today, Cooper University Heath Care and George E. Norcross, III, Cooper’s chairman, were given the prestigious “Seven Seals Award” by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Employer Support for National Guard and Reserve (ESGR) in recognition of Cooper’s “Veterans VIP Priority Program.” The award was presented by ESGR state chair Don Tretola at an event at Cooper’s Roberts Pavilion.

Cooper University Health Care and Kennedy Health System are partnering to expand cardiac services in Gloucester County with the opening of a new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Kennedy University Hospital in Washington Township. A ribbon-cutting event was held on November 3, 2014.

Human trafficking—specifically, child sex trafficking—is a thriving industry. Approximately 100,000 children are trafficked in the United States annually according to studies.

On Saturday, October 25, 2014, nearly 100 members and friends of the Chrome Riders Riding Club roared Camden to bring cheer to children hospitalized at the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper. They brought with them a trailer full of toys, games, gift cards and other items. This was the 20th year that the Chrome Riders sponsored the Toy Run.

“Our staff and patients really look forward to this event, but this year is extra special,” said Robyn Harvey, RN, Executive Director of the Women’s and Children’s Institute and the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper. Read more.