Dear Cooper Team:
We hope everyone is having a healthy, safe week. Thank you for all that you do for our patients, community, and each other.
What You Should Know This Week:
- National Voter Registration Day. With the presidential election less than 50 days away, you want to make sure you’re registered to vote. To register to vote, check your registration status, or learn more, click here. Please be advised that the voter registration deadlines in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are 21 days and 15 days before Election Day, respectively.
- National Hispanic Heritage Month. Please join Cooper’s Latinos Unidos Team Resource Group in celebrating the month with Wepa Wednesdays – a delicious showcase of food from diverse Hispanic cultures available to purchase for lunch at the Camden and Cape hospital cafeterias and some of our ambulatory locations beginning Wednesday, September 18, 2024. Click here to read more.
- Yesterday It Was All About IT – National Information Technology (IT) Professionals Day. We would like to recognize and thank our Cooper IT team members for their outstanding contributions. Your dedication to maintaining our clinical and business applications and technology infrastructure, providing training and project management, ensuring security, solving complex problems, and supporting our day-to-day operations is truly appreciated. To read more, click here.
- Get It Right, Make It Safe. Also yesterday, we celebrated World Patient Safety Day, which raises public awareness and fosters collaboration among patients, health workers, policymakers, and health care leaders to improve patient safety. This year’s theme was “Improving diagnosis for patient safety.” To learn more, click here.
- Rescheduled – Multicultural Awareness and Vendor Fair. Please join the WAVE (We All Value Everyone) multicultural team resource group on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, to enjoy international food, music, and products. Click here for more information.
- 2024 Flu Vaccination Program. New Jersey state law requires an annual flu vaccination for all individuals working in hospitals, nursing homes, or home health care agencies. Click here for the schedule of flu clinic dates at your work location. For more information, click here. Cooper at Cape team – you will receive separate communication regarding your flu vaccination process.
- New Episode: Out in the Crowd With Mazz and O’Dowd. The latest edition of Cooper’s podcast about team members features Steven Ross, MD, and John Porter, MD, discussing the history of Cooper’s Level I Trauma Center, as well as their shared love of Star Wars. Click here to listen to the segment. If you know a Cooper team member who has an interesting story to tell, please contact OutinTheCrowd@cooperhealth.edu.
- Several groups of Cooper’s professionals are celebrated this week and next. We appreciate your dedication and the positive impact you have on our patients and their families:
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- Nursing Professional Development Week. Thank you to our nursing professional development practitioners and clinical educators. To read more, click here.
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- National Surgical Technologist Week. We appreciate Cooper’s surgical technologists for all they do. Click here to read more.
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- National Rehabilitation Awareness Week. We appreciate the work of Cooper’s rehabilitation professionals – physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists. Click here to read more.
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- Next Week Is National Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Week. Thank you to our APPs for providing high quality, patient-centered care. For next week’s activities, click here.
Reminders:
- ServiceNow Requests Within Epic. A new feature that allows you to easily submit IT service issues directly within your Epic session. This system is live Today, September 18, 2024. For more information, click here.
- Kelemen Entrance Night Closings. Now through Wednesday, October 2, 2024, the Kelemen entrance at Cooper University Hospital in Camden will be closed at night from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning, for renovations. During the day, there will be an alternate entrance to help alleviate crowding.
- Nominations Open for 2024 Armed Forces Person of the Year Award. To nominate a team member who served in the U.S. military, click here. The deadline for nominations is September 30, 2024.
- Events From Cooper at Cape, Camden, and Points in Between. For a full list of events, click here.
- Trainings and Conferences and Symposiums, Oh My. For a list of upcoming continuing education events, click here.
Other News:
- Click here to read the most recent Daily Dose, “Getting Ahead of Seasonal Affective Disorder.” As always, you can view the Daily Dose archives here.
- We love positive patient feedback. Kudos to all who are making The Cooper Experience a reality, including Drs. Scally, Diorio, and Spitz as well as Anthony, Kelly, Lilly, and Lex. Click here to read more.
Movie Quote: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
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