{"id":4931,"date":"2012-12-28T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2013-01-03T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:38:53","slug":"former-cooper-nicu-preemie-makes-9th-annual-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2012\/12\/former-cooper-nicu-preemie-makes-9th-annual-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cooper NICU Preemie Makes 7th Annual Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/pennies-large.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4931]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4932 aligncenter\" title=\"pennies-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/files\/2012\/12\/pennies-large.jpg\" alt=\"Melvin Pennies\" width=\"480\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his seventh annual donation to Children\u2019s Regional Hospital at Cooper\u2019s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Melvin Sheppard and family stopped by to donate $394.06 in pennies at the NICU on December 19. \u00a0Melvin, now 15, was born at Cooper 9 weeks premature, weighing only 2.9 pounds. \u00a0The Moorestown teenager, who has collected more than $2,000 over the years, poses with Cooper staff and this year\u2019s donation.<\/p>\n<p>From left to right: <strong>Rakesh Sharma, MD<\/strong>, Neonatology; <strong>Melvin C. Sheppard<\/strong>; mom <strong>Denise Sheppard<\/strong>; dad <strong>Melvin Nathaniel Sheppard<\/strong>; <strong>Robyn Harvey<\/strong>, Senior Director of Patient Care Services; Melvin\u2019s classmate <strong>Ali Rohrback<\/strong>; <strong>Judy Saslow, MD<\/strong>, Associate Director of Neonatal Services; <strong>Michael Goodman, MD<\/strong>, Chief, Department of Pediatrics; <strong>Gary Stahl, MD<\/strong>, Head, Division of Neonatology; <strong>Joanne Fox<\/strong>, Clinical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; <strong>Erik Brandsma, MD<\/strong>, Neonatology; and <strong>Gretchen Lawhon<\/strong>, Clinical Nurse Scientist, Department of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his seventh annual donation to Children\u2019s Regional Hospital at Cooper\u2019s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Melvin Sheppard and family stopped by to donate $394.06 in pennies at the NICU on December 19.  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The Moorestown teenager, who has collected more than $2,000 over the years, poses with Cooper staff and this year\u2019s donation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-4931","7":"format-standard","8":"category-announcements"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Cooper NICU Preemie Makes 7th Annual Donation - Inside Cooper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2012\/12\/former-cooper-nicu-preemie-makes-9th-annual-donation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Cooper NICU Preemie Makes 7th Annual Donation - Inside Cooper\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In his seventh annual donation to Children\u2019s Regional Hospital at Cooper\u2019s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Melvin Sheppard and family stopped by to donate $394.06 in pennies at the NICU on December 19. 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