As a result of surveillance activities conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and our own experience where we are seeing very few patients with influenza, our infection prevention team and hospital epidemiologist have declared today, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, as the end of the 2019/2020 influenza season at Cooper.… Read more.
We are pleased to announce that on Monday, April 27, 2020, Cooper Specialty Care at Cherry Hill will officially open. The new, high-tech facility consolidates high-demand adult health care specialties into one easy-to-access location in the heart of Cherry Hill.… Read more.
Those of us who aren’t front-line health care workers are not used to wearing masks and donning gloves, let alone the safest way to wear them and remove them. Here are simple instructions for putting them on and taking them off that you can also share with your family.… Read more.
DATE/TIME: TONIGHT – Friday, April 17, 2020, at 10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION: Cooper IT is launching a new email security and anti-spam system that will add a number of new protections to our email system, including increased scanning of links and attachments, malware blocking, and an easier method to stop unwanted spam.… Read more.
Here is how your child can help support our heroes:
The Cooper Foundation’s COVID-19 Assistance Fund was created to help ensure Cooper University Health Care has the vital resources to protect you, the brave and dedicated health care professionals caring for COVID-19 patients.
Since launching the fund just a few weeks ago, our community has mobilized to support Cooper by generously donating supplies needed to protect our health care workers, and food to fuel our heroes working on the front line.… Read more.
Recognizing that first responders and health care workers are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, Cooper University Health Care will open two new COVID-19 testing sites for Camden County law enforcement and first responders from all levels of government based in and around Camden, beginning April 14, 2020.… Read more.
The COVID-19 testing site located at Cooper’s Poynt Park in Camden, which serves all Camden County residents, is extending its testing operations and will remain open until further notice.
The site, operated jointly by Cooper University Health Care, Virtua Health, the Camden County Freeholder Board, and Camden County Health Department, originally was slated to operate through mid-April, but based on current projections the operations have been extended.… Read more.
DATE/TIME: Thursday, April 9, 2020, at 11 p.m.
DESCRIPTION: Maintenance on the network path to Epic, Lawson, and Kronos systems will be performed.
IMPACT: During the maintenance period, active sessions in Epic, Lawson, and Kronos may be disconnected.… Read more.
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DATE/TIME: TONIGHT – Wednesday, April 8, 2020, from 9 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
DURATION: 15 minutes
DESCRIPTION: The Epic Production system will be paused in order to install necessary updates for COVID-19 functionality, as well as safety and security escalation fixes.… Read more.