General

Please join us in acknowledging and thanking the dedicated pharmacists and pharmacy technicians for their invaluable contributions to patient care and their achievement in ensuring safe and effective medication use. These professionals are members of multidisciplinary patient-care teams and play critical roles in preventing medication errors and advising providers on the best drug choices, while assisting with monitoring patient medication therapy to improve health outcomes.… Read more.

The free, Cooper employee flu vaccination program began in late September and hundreds of you have already taken advantage of it. If you haven’t gotten your flu shot yet, there are still a few opportunities for you to obtain your vaccination both within the hospital as well as for outpatient offices throughout the health system.… Read more.

Open Enrollment for 2015 begins today, October 20, 2014, and continues through November 3, 2014. In the next few days, your 2015 open enrollment materials will be mailed to your home.

ACTION REQUIRED! This year, all new and current participants are required to enroll in the medical plan or waive coverage.… Read more.

Cooper is committed to making our organization a best-in-class place for providers to practice medicine, and your feedback is vital to helping us achieve this goal. To gather your opinions, ideas and comments most effectively, we have partnered with The Advisory Board to conduct a comprehensive medical staff survey.… Read more.

Join Cooper Medical School of Rowan University for a special screening of Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth, a documentary about human trafficking and domestic minor sex-trafficking. These contemporary forms of human slavery and abuse affect at least 100,000 youth in the United States annually.… Read more.

As the Flagship Sponsor of the event, Cooper Neurological Institute supports the National Brain Tumor Society’s efforts to raise awareness and much-needed resources to fund critical brain tumor-specific programs to improve the lives of all those affected by brain tumors.… Read more.

Join the Cooper Volunteer Team on Sunday, November 2, 2014, as thousands gather for the annual Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge 10K and Two-Mile Fun Walk. The Cooper Volunteer Team is in charge of the water stand on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, they help navigate walkers on the bridge and as they finish the two-mile walk.… Read more.

November is National Diabetes Month

• Diabetes currently affects more than 26 million Americans.
• 35 percent of adults over 20 years of age have prediabetes.
• 50 percent of those over 65 years of age are at risk.… Read more.

As a member of Team Cooper, you contribute every day to the success of Cooper University Health Care. It is because of you that Cooper is able to deliver on our mission – To Serve ∙ To Heal ∙ To Educate.… Read more.

Help meet the critical need for blood by donating during Cooper’s next blood drive, Friday, October 17, 2014, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Cafeteria A/B of Cooper University Hospital.

According to the American Red Cross, every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood, and more than 44,000 blood donations are needed nationwide every day.… Read more.