Bidding has begun for The Cooper Foundation’s Online Quilt Auction benefiting the Pink Roses Teal Magnolias Fund for breast and gynecologic cancer research and clinical care at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper.
The online auction features 52 quilts donated by talented quilters, quilt guilds, and cancer survivors from across South Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and even as far away as Wisconsin.… Read more.
Cooper Radiology is pleased to announce a new offering: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) for children with sickle cell anemia. TCD is a machine that helps monitor the blood vessels in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease who are at a higher risk of stroke.… Read more.
Each year, in addition to lighting the exterior of Cooper University Hospital in pink, we encourage Cooper University Health Care employees to wear pink to help us raise awareness of breast cancer and to show support for those who are battling the disease.… Read more.
This study explores if some patients may forego surgery after chemotherapy.
MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper has joined a clinical research study to determine if certain breast cancer patients who respond positively to neoadjuvant systemic therapy can be treated without surgery.… Read more.
The Cooper Policy Network (CPN) vendor will perform a software update for the system on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. The sections that are being updated will affect all the document owners in the CPN – mainly, how to assign users to a document.… Read more.
Cooper has entered into an exciting new partnership with Advanced Recovery Systems (ARS) to provide addiction treatment services to patients in this region. ARS operates addiction and substance abuse treatment centers in five states and will operate a new facility we are together building in Cherry Hill.… Read more.
The Quarter 2 Good Catch winner is Dan Komis, MRI Technologist
This patient was documented in EPIC to have a Watchman device, which is MRI compatible. The MRI technologist looked at the patient’s chest X-ray and noticed that the positioning wasn’t a usual place for that device.… Read more.
October 21 through 27, 2018, is National Healthcare Quality Week. This special week, brought to you by the National Association for Healthcare Quality, is dedicated to celebrating the contributions professionals have made to improve health care quality.… Read more.
As part of Cooper’s involvement in a state-wide initiative to bring best practices to patient safety, we have been posting Patient Safety Moments on the Pulse under the Quality and Safety Section, the Connect the Docs blog, and in Weekly Rounds under the “Don’t Forget!”… Read more.
Twenty-five employee volunteers from Cooper University Health Care joined representatives from the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) and the Parkside Business and Community In Partnership, Inc. to install a new Born Learning Trail at Farnham Park in the Parkside neighborhood of Camden on Tuesday, October 16, 2018.… Read more.