Teddy Goes to Cooper!

Sick and injured stuffed bears help alleviate kids’ fears of going to the hospital and doctor.

 More than 125 kindergarteners from the KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy visited Cooper University Health Care on June 5, 2019, to take part in the annual Teddy Goes to Cooper Program.… Read more.

Carmen Cirucci – Employee of the Month for June

Come help us honor Carmen Cirucci, Ambulatory Maintenance Generalist for the Voorhees Facilities Department.

Join us in celebrating Cooper’s Employee of the Month for June 2019:
Friday, June 28, 2019
1 p.m.
900 Centennial Boulevard
Building 1, Atrium
Voorhees

All employees are welcome to attend!… Read more.

New Search Feature Added to the Pulse!

Have you had difficulty revisiting a past article from Weekly Rounds or finding an announcement on the Pulse? A new search feature has been added! You no longer need to endlessly scroll page-by-page, nor do you need to recall the exact title of the article.… Read more.

There’s a Survey Heading Your Way

The link to take the Employee Engagement survey is on its way to you and will be sent to your Cooper email address.

The survey will run from June 10 to June 28, 2019, and is for all employees and Advanced Practice Providers hired prior to April 15, 2019.… Read more.

HRO Safety Behaviors and Tools: R = Reliably Communicate

New Jersey S.T.R.O.N.G. HRO Safety Behaviors and Tools: R = Reliably Communicate

There are six safety behaviors that align with New Jersey STRONG’s name and mission:

S – Speak Up for Safety

T – Think Critically

R – Reliably Communicate

O – On Task

N – No Harm

G – Got Your Back

The third New Jersey STRONG safety behavior – Reliably Communicate – focuses on point-to-point communications.… Read more.

Winner of 2019 Cooper Civic Leadership Award

Nidhi Baxi, an undergraduate biology student at Rutgers University-Camden, was presented with the 2019 Cooper Civic Leadership Award at the recent Eighth Annual Chancellor’s Awards for Civic Engagement.

Cooper University Health Care established the Civic Leadership Award in 2018 to honor a Rutgers University-Camden student who exemplifies outstanding service to the Camden community.… Read more.

AllCare Health Alliance Blog Post

Check out the blog post by Kara S. Aplin, MD, FACP, “Hospitalists’ Impact on the ACO,” featured on “For Providers. By Providers.”

Click here access the post.

Kara S. Aplin, MD, FACP
Medical Director, Hospital Medicine
Interim Division Head, Hospital Medicine
Cooper University Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University… Read more.