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Cooper University Hospital received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke^SM Honor Roll. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to providing the most appropriate stroke treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.… Read more.

Don’t miss a chance to have your say by taking Cooper’s annual Employee and Provider Engagement Survey. You only have until this Friday, June 8, 2018, to take the survey. Check your inbox from May 14, 2018, for an email from Advisory Board Survey Solutions.… Read more.

South Jersey Magazine’s Top Physicians poll is ending on Friday, June 8, 2018. Each person can vote only once per day, but you can vote every day up until voting ends.

The results will appear in the August 2018 issue of South Jersey Magazine.… Read more.

Five members of the Cooper University Hospital EMS team were honored by the Camden County Metro Police Department for heroic work during an incident that occurred in March. The quarterly award presentation took place at Rowan University’s Camden campus and was presided over by NBC 10’s news anchor Vai Sikahema.… Read more.

MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, The Cooper Foundation, and Legency League Youth Foundation invite you to attend the Art of the Invincible gallery fundraiser on Friday, June 22, 2018, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.… Read more.

The opioid epidemic hits close to home in Camden County, and Cooper’s role as a Level 1 Trauma Center makes our team vital in caring for those suffering from addiction. In the video, Emergency Medicine physician Dr.… Read more.

We challenge you to set a weight-loss goal for a chance to win a two-week Blue Apron subscription or a registered dietitian-led home pantry purge, supermarket tour, and family cooking class for up to four guests!… Read more.

This summer, the New Jersey Hospital Association is encouraging healthy behaviors with its new #HealthyEatsNJ social media campaign, going on now through July 28, 2018.

If you’re following Cooper University Health Care on social media, you’ll see posts and reposts each weekend highlighting summer recipes and what we’re eating around the area.… Read more.

This week, the annual Tuberculin Screening Tests (TST, also called PPD) and Fit Testing will take place at the following locations:

Pennsville: 390 North Broadway
Monday, June 11, 2018
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Woodstown: 66 East Avenue
Monday, June 11, 2018
8:30 a.m.… Read more.

By Ryna K. Then, MD
Inpatient Stroke Director, Cooper Neurological Institute
Cooper University Health Care

Stroke is the leading cause of disability in the United States and affects almost 800,000 people in the U.S. every year.… Read more.