Exciting Changes Are Coming to Cooper’s Benefit Coverage

You’ve spoken, and we’ve listened! As a result of employee feedback, Cooper is changing our health benefits administrator to Independence Administrators.

We anticipate a number of positive changes and added benefits for employees with the transition to Independence Administrators in January 2020.… Read more.

October’s Medicine Grand Rounds

Rounds take place from Noon to 1 p.m. in Dorrance Building, Room 409, at Cooper University Hospital.

Thursday, October 17, 2019
Topic
: Cardiac Amyloidosis: Good Proteins Gone Bad Diagnosis and Emerging Therapies
Presented by: Janice Pieretti, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Health System

Click here for the program flyer.… Read more.

CME: Low Back Pain – Evidence-Based Care

The Continuing Medical Education department presents Low Back Pain: Evidence-Based Care, which is co-sponsored by Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Thursday, November 14, 2019
4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Mansion on Main Street
3000 Main Street (corner of Kresson and Evesham Roads)
Voorhees, NJ 08043

Credits: 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Overall Learner Objectives:

  • Describe the natural history of degenerative conditions of the lumbar spine.
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Discounted Registration for Run the Bridge!

Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge is only a month away, and if you delayed in registering and missed the early bird registration, you can still realize a savings if you register now. Sign up with Cooper Friends and Family using this code: COOPERFF.… Read more.

Cooper and CMSRU Raise Awareness of Sickle Cell Disease With Annual Walk

Congress has designated September as “National Sickle Cell Awareness Month” to help focus attention on the need for research and treatment of sickle cell disease, an inherited condition that currently affects 70,000 to 100,000 Americans.

Sickle cell disease occurs when hemoglobin, a protein carried by the body’s red blood cells that attaches to oxygen in the lungs and transports it to all parts of the body, is abnormal, causing the red blood cells to take on a rigid “C” or sickle shape.… Read more.

Cooper Bridges – Summer 2019 Edition

Here’s your copy of the 2019 summer edition of Cooper Bridges, a publication for nurses and healthcare professionals! Thank you to the many team members who contribute to the success of this publication.

To download a copy, please click here.… Read more.

Local Students Deputized as Superheroes

As part of the Camden City School District’s National Preparedness Month activities, Barry Hunter, EMT, and Misti Martin, MICP, of Cooper’s Emergency Medical Services team, joined members of the Camden County Police Department and Camden Fire Department during visits to three Camden schools.… Read more.