Dear Cooper Team:
We hope you are having a safe and productive week. Thank you for all you are doing to keep our patients, community, and each other safe.
What You Should Know This Week:
- Our Engagement and Culture of Safety Survey is open and ready for the taking. Encouraging your teammates to take the survey this year on Pulse+ and you can receive Cooper swag and prizes. For more information, click here.
- This Friday, October 20, Cooper will GO PINK to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Wear pink to show your support and to raise awareness about breast cancer screening. Also, please share pictures of you and your team in pink on Pulse+. For more information, click here.
- It’s an exciting time to be a Phillies fan! On Monday, October 23, you may wear your Phillies jersey or red to work provided it’s appropriate for your work that day.
- A Mindfulness Mystery. Each month, you will have the chance to listen to a new mystery mindfulness speaker. If you guess which Cooper team member is providing the mindfulness message that month, you’ll be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a prize. To listen to the first speaker, click here. For more information, click here.
- Congratulations to Young K. Hong, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO, Director of Cellular Therapy and Clinical Research for Surgical Oncology, for recently being appointed to the position of Chair-Elect of Education in the Young Fellows Association of the American College of Surgeons.
- This week is National Pharmacy Week. Please join us in thanking our pharmacy experts for their commitment to our patients by providing the highest standard of pharmaceutical care. To read more about our pharmacy team, click here.
- This week is Health Care Quality Week. Our Quality team continues to make significant contributions to our organization by providing crucial data for research, identifying improvement opportunities, and making projections to drive future performance. We thank them for all they do, which has helped us earn national quality awards. To read more about how our Quality team members advance important initiatives at Cooper, click here.
- Holiday scrubs are back. During shifts that begin, end, or fall on holidays between now and January 2, 2024, team members are permitted to wear holiday-themed scrub tops with standard scrub pants. Remember to post your holiday scrub photos to Pulse+! For more information, click here.
- Pastoral Care Week, also known as Spiritual Care Week, takes place from October 22 through October 28, and offers an opportunity to recognize the work our pastoral care chaplains provide throughout the year. Learn more about the vital role our Pastoral Care Department plays in the healing process of our patients, families, and team members at events this week. For a schedule of services and exhibit times, please click here.
- Food Truck Fridays are back. Food trucks park between Sheridan Pavilion and MD Anderson at Cooper on our Camden campus every Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Check the food truck schedule here or on the home page of the Pulse, under Team Member Resources.
Reminders:
- October is Health Literacy Month. To learn more about how we promote better patient outcomes by making information understandable, click here.
- Join us on Tuesday, November 7, as we celebrate Col. Kirby Gross, MD, and his retirement after 21 years in the U.S. Army. Col. Gross is a trauma surgeon assigned to Cooper’s Division of Trauma in the Section of Military, Diplomatic, and Field Surgical Affairs. All Cooper team members are welcome. Click here to read more.
- Give us pumpkin to talk about. Let’s see them! This year’s theme options are “sporty” or “scary” spice. Click here for more details.
- Cooper’s 2023 Flu Vaccination Program will continue until Thursday, December 7, 2023. You can view the flu shot clinic schedule here. For more information about the flu clinic, click here. The new COVID-19 vaccine is also now available. For more information about the new COVID-19 vaccine, click here.
- Cooper will host the first New Jersey Social Determinants of Health Hackathon. The deadline to register has been extended to this Friday, October 20. For more information and to register for the event, click here.
Other News:
- Click here to read the most recent Daily Dose, “10 pieces of well-worn life advice you may need to hear right now” As always, you can view the Daily Dose archives here.
- Send your most-loved movie quotes to MessageFromCoCEOs@CooperHealth.edu and check back each Wednesday to see if your quote was picked.
- Movie Quote: “There is no crying in baseball.”
Please email CEOQuestions@CooperHealth.edu with any questions or comments.