Cooper University Hospital is an educational hospital and biomedical research facility located in Camden, New Jersey. This hospital previously served as a clinical campus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry. Currently he is affiliated with the newly established Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and offers training programs in various fields for medical students, residents, friends, nurses, and allied health experts. In 2013, Cooper announced a partnership with MD Anderson University of Texas Cancer Center and opened a new comprehensive cancer center to serve patients in New Jersey and Delaware Valley. Cooper is also affiliated with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, a leading non-profit research organization focusing on stem cell science, genomics and personal medicine. Cooper is a tertiary partner for 21 hospitals in the region that can transfer their critically ill patients to Cooper University Hospital.
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Cooper University Hospital was founded in 1887 by a family of leading Quaker doctors named Richard M. Cooper. The original hospital has 30 beds and provides health care services for low-income residents of Camden. It is slowly growing from small community hospitals into tertiary care centers of 635 area beds. In 1982, he opened a trauma center that remains one of only three state-appointed Trauma Trauma Centers in New Jersey. It is certified by the American College of Surgeons and serves as a regional trauma center for the southern region of New Jersey. It also serves as a resource for Level II Trauma Centers in the South Jersey region. Cooper recognizes nearly 3000 trauma patients each year, making it the busiest center in New Jersey.
Cooper serves as New Jersey's main tertiary referral hospital in the south for special services and is home to Bone & amp; Joint Institute, Heart Institute, Neurological Institute, and Urological Institute.
In 2010, the hospital launched its first medical evacuation helicopter service in Cumberland County.
In 2012, American talk show host Kelly Ripa became the official spokesperson for Cooper.
Currently, Cooper stands as one of the largest healthcare providers in the region with more than 1.2 million outpatient visits annually and over 7,000 employees. The Cooper Institutes and Centers of Excellence include: The Bone and Joint Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, The Ripa Center for Women's Health and Wellness, The Cooper Heart Institute and the Center for Population Health, among many others.
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MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper
George Norcross, a leading philanthropist in New Jersey and Chairman of the Board at Cooper, led efforts to create a new partnership between Cooper University Hospital and the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2013, both institutions opened a $ 100 million free facility that housed a comprehensive outpatient cancer service, including medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, gynecological oncology, and urology. Other resources include new pathology laboratories, linear accelerators and PET-CT facilities. The center offers patients in Delaware Valley access to MD Anderson cancer treatment protocols and clinical trials. The MD Anderson Cancer Unit at Cooper has 30 private rooms on the fifth floor of Roberts Pavilion.
Cooper University Hospital is one of three co-branded partner institutions of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, which also includes the MD Anderson Banner Cancer Center in Arizona and MD Anderson International in Spain. The MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper has more than 6,500 new patient visits by 2016. Leapfrog's group for Pancreatic Surgery rank the MD Anderson Cooper's number one in New Jersey state for safety in Pancreas surgery.
Statistics
By 2016, according to their annual report, Cooper University Hospital has:
- Reception at the hospital: 30,573
- Surgical case: 19.941
- MD Anderson's new patient visit: 6,564
- Emergency department visit: 78.270
- Transfer volume to Cooper: 6,034
- Outpatient visit: 1.583.241
- Urgent care visit: 43.433
- Trauma case: 3,682
Expansion
In June 2004, Cooper University Hospital announced an expansion of $ 220 million to the Hospital Health Campus that includes a new patient care pavilion attached to the existing facility. Furthermore, plans for a new patient care pavilion are expanded from six floors (211,000 square feet) to ten floors (312,000 square feet), with inclusion of additional landscape improvements and convenience patient design features.
The Cooper University Hospital pavilion project is part of a hospital effort to create a regional health science campus in Camden, which will also include a $ 130 million Academic and Research Building, as well as stem cell institutions, cancer institutes, clinical research buildings, office building clinics and additions off-street parking.
Designed by EwingCole Philadelphia, the patient pavilion opened in December 2008 and the hospital orientation was moved from Haddon Avenue to Martin Luther King Boulevard, as visitors began to enter the hospital through the new lobby and utilized the Camden County Improvement Authority parking lot, which connects to the hospital by road closed.
The hospital is a planned stop on the Glassboro-Camden Line, an 18-mile (28.97 km) diesel light (DMU) projection system projected to be completed by 2019, which will connect to River LINE.
References
External links
- Official website
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