Welcome to the first edition of This Week at Cooper, our weekly email update to keep you posted on timely, relevant information. You indicated that our COVID-19 Updates were valuable to you, so we wanted to continue to provide a vehicle to keep this line of communication open.
What You Should Know This Week
- As we settle into a new normal, it’s important that we don’t lose sight of what it took to get us here and what we learned along the way. Cooper launched season two of our award-winning series Stories in Care: An Oral History of COVID-19. The new season has 11 more incredible episodes. This project, inspired by Dr. Nitin Puri, Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Cooper, details the emotional stories of our courageous critical care team and what they experienced during the pandemic. Take time to watch. Spoiler alert: have some tissues on hand. Thank you to all of our team who took the time to share their stories and give us a great eyewitness historical accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let us know what you think of the series.
- The Joint Commission has scheduled Cooper’s accreditation survey. This means the Joint Commission visit could take place within the next four to six weeks – the date will remain unknown, as per the policy. Please ensure your teams are prepared. Thank you.
- This Friday, we will be permanently closing our COVID-19 testing site in Cherry Hill. We want to thank the entire team involved in COVID-19 testing at this site and all of the various sites we set up during the pandemic. Your hard work demonstrated our leadership in serving the community with courage and compassion throughout the pandemic. Cooper will continue testing at our Camden site at the Hospital garage.
- Last week, Subaru of America, Inc. presented “thank you” care bundles to support departments at Cooper for their outstanding efforts during the pandemic. Nearly 1,000 team members in the Environmental Services, Food and Nutrition, Transport, Security, and Maintenance departments, along with staff members at MD Anderson at Cooper, received a care package containing numerous gift cards to local retail stores and restaurants as well as transportation vouchers.
- We love to hear patient feedback about their excellent health care experience at Cooper. Kudos to all who received individual recognition from our patients in recent surveys, including Maria, Fred, and Dr. Simons. Click here to read more.
- Click here to read today’s Daily Dose, entitled, “Life. IRL.” As always, you can view the Daily Dose archives here.
- In a word: Herd Immunity – (Keeping with our movie quote tradition) – “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” We say “herd immunity” when enough of a population is immune (through vaccination or infection) to an infectious disease to provide indirect protection—or population immunity—to those that are not immune.
- For questions, ideas, or comments, please email CEOQuestions@CooperHealth.edu.
We hope you have a safe and relaxing Independence Day weekend.