{"id":6780,"date":"2016-02-12T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2016-02-12T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:15:44","slug":"moorestown-teen-donates-pennies-for-preemies-at-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2016\/02\/moorestown-teen-donates-pennies-for-preemies-at-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorestown Teen Donates \u201cPennies for Preemies\u201d at Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6783\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/?attachment_id=6783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6783\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6783\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/files\/2016\/02\/melvin1.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured (l to r): Melvin Sheppard Sr.; Melvin Sheppard; Gary E. Stahl, MD, Head, Division of Neonatology; Denise Sheppard; Joanne Fox, RN, Clinical Director of the NICU; and Robyn Harvey, Executive Director, Women and Children's Services.\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured (l to r): Melvin Sheppard Sr.; Melvin Sheppard; Gary E. Stahl, MD, Head, Division of Neonatology; Denise Sheppard; Joanne Fox, RN, Clinical Director of the NICU; and Robyn Harvey, Executive Director, Women and Children&#8217;s Services.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every year for the past 11 years, Melvin Sheppard of Moorestown, NJ, visits the Children\u2019s Regional Hospital at Cooper\u2019s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with a special mission. Sheppard, now 18, was born nine weeks premature at Cooper in 1997 weighing only 2.9 pounds. As a token of thanks and gratitude for the medical care he received as a premature infant, the Moorestown, NJ, teenager conducts a year-long penny collection and donates the proceeds to the hospital. Since he began his Pennies for Preemies campaign, Melvin has collected and donated more than $2,500 as a way of giving back and helping other premature babies get a good start in life. Donations have been used to purchase specialized equipment for the unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year for the past 11 years, Melvin Sheppard of Moorestown, NJ, visits the Children\u2019s Regional Hospital at Cooper\u2019s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with a special mission. Sheppard, now 18, was born nine weeks premature at Cooper in 1997 weighing only 2.9 pounds. 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