Dear Cooper Team:
We hope everyone is doing well and having a healthy and safe week. We appreciate your unwavering dedication to our patients, community, and one another. And to those who celebrate, we wish you a happy and blessed Ramadan, which begins on Friday.
What You Should Know This Week:
- Remember to Thank a Resident or Fellow This Friday. Friday, February 28, 2025, is “Thank a Resident and Fellow Day.” Join us in paying special recognition and expressing our deepest gratitude to the nearly 500 house staff in 51 programs who help us to serve, to heal, to educate. Click here to read a message from Amit R.T. Joshi, MD, FACS, Designated Institution Official, Graduate Medical Education.
- Upcoming MRI Service Changes at Camden and Voorhees. We are finalizing plans for MRI service changes to enhance patient access on our Camden and Voorhees campuses. Please click here for details.
- Joseph D’Orazio, MD, Featured on WHYY Panel on Stigma and Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder. Dr. D’Orazio, an addiction medicine specialist at Cooper’s Center for Healing, recently joined a WHYY panel discussion on opioid use disorder recovery and the significant hurdles faced by individuals struggling with substance use disorder, particularly the persistent stigma. To read more, click here.
- Ash Wednesday Schedule. Click here for Cooper’s Mass and distribution schedule for ashes on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
- CCBO Parking Switcheroo. Beginning Monday, March 3, 2025, Cooper team members assigned to the surface parking area at the CCBO (L3 Harris) will now be able to park closer to the building. Cooper’s new parking area will be in front of the building along Delaware Avenue. For more information, click here.
Reminders:
- Black History Month. Every Wednesday this month, enjoy a special lunch menu at Cooper University Hospital and Cooper University Hospital Cape Regional. Share your reflections and test your knowledge of Black history using Pulse+ for a chance to win a prize. Click here to read more.
- Advanced HAZMAT Life Support Courses in Camden. Please join us on April 8, 2025, for a four-hour course that trains health care professionals to medically manage patients with acute radiation syndrome and internal contamination with radionuclides. For information or to register for the courses, click here.
- Schwartz Rounds: Moral Injury and Burnout in Health Care. Please join us for the next Schwartz Rounds on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from noon to 1 p.m. either in person at Cooper University Hospital, Conference Center, Room 121, or virtually. Click here for more information.
- $10K Sign-On Bonus for Radiation Therapists. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper is hiring full-time radiation therapists to join the team and offering a $10K sign-on bonus now until April 13, 2025. Click here for more information.
- Cooper Events From Cape to Camden. See them all here.
Other News:
- Click here to read the most recent Daily Dose, “Prep Your Sleep NOW for DST.” 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. Click here to read more.
- Movie Quote: “Wait a minute! Why don’t they just mix the mayonnaise with the tuna in the can … HOLD THE PHONE! Why don’t they just FEED the tuna fish mayonnaise! Call Starkist.”
Please email CEOQuestions@CooperHealth.edu with any questions or comments.