Dear Cooper Team:
We hope everyone is having a healthy and productive week. Please stay alert and aware and if you see something, say something. Thank you for all you do for our patients, community, and each other.
What You Should Know This Week:
- Simple action to keep you safe at Cooper. Alert text messages are the fastest way to communicate potentially life-saving information to you in an emergency. We need your correct mobile phone number to ensure you get alert text messages. Click here to provide your correct mobile phone number. Your number will not be open to the public and will only be used by Cooper’s Emergency Alert System in emergencies or to test the network.
- Cooper’s credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service was upgraded to A3, its highest rating ever. In November, S&P Global also upgraded Cooper’s credit rating. What does this mean? It demonstrates the success of our business strategies. Thank you for your hard work in helping us achieve this strong credit rating that will allow Cooper to borrow money at lower cost to support our mission as well as fund future growth. To read more, click here.
- The results of a Cooper study of Vitamin D in acute respiratory infections has been published in the journal Nutrients. The study team would like to thank all Cooper team members who participated and made this possible. For more information, click here. To read the article, click here.
- Tomorrow is National Pharmacist Day. Please join us in acknowledging and thanking our dedicated pharmacists for their invaluable contributions to patient care and ensuring safe and effective medication use. For more information, click here.
- Trauma-informed care feedback sessions. Any team members who have had a trauma-like experience themselves or with loved ones, and has something to share with our Emergency Medicine team to help us improve trauma-informed care and our training at Cooper can provide feedback on Wednesday, January 18, and Wednesday, January 25, 2023. For more information, click here.
Reminders:
- Attention, Cooper Physicians. Now is your chance to nominate an outstanding Cooper colleague for SJ Magazine’s Top Docs for Kids list. Physicians may nominate a colleague by entering their name here by January 16, 2023. The results will be published in the March 2023 issue of SJ Magazine. For more information, click here.
- 2023 Nursing Excellence Award Nominations Now Open. Please take a moment to nominate deserving nurses and patient care team members for the 2023 Nursing Excellence Awards. For more information click here, and for the full nomination packet click here.
- 2023 Payroll Tax Rates. To review the 2023 tax rates for Federal Social Security and Medicare for New Jersey and Pennsylvania, click here.
- Cooper’s Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness teams will resume hosting Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) and Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS) courses. For more information, click here.
- Ends this Friday, January 13. Please take the short survey on Cooper’s communications and marketing and let us know how we’re doing. Click here before the survey ends.
COVID Updates:
- New Jersey reported another 1,944 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 16 confirmed deaths. For more information, click here. The CDC Community Level for Camden County is currently HIGH requiring masks in all Cooper facilities.
- For the latest updates on required PPE and masking, including non-clinical areas, go to the COVID-19 Resources section on the Pulse.
Other News:
- We love positive patient feedback. Kudos to all who are making The Cooper Experience a reality, including Carol and Dr. Derivaux. Click here to read more.
- Click here to read the most recent Daily Dose, “A Happiness Challenge.” As always, you can view the Daily Dose archives here.
- Theme of the Week: This Monday, January 16, is MLK Day, a holiday commemorating the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In honor of MLK Day, Cooper will host a day of service event for Camden City residents. For details, click here. We also invite you to post sentiments, poems, and stories on Pulse+ to demonstrate why MLK Day is meaningful to you.
- Movie Quote: “Whatever kind of ambition it took to do what you did around here, this world could use a lot more of it.”
Please email CEOQuestions@CooperHealth.edu with any questions or comments.