Dear Cooper Team:
Happy 2025. We hope everyone is doing well and having a healthy and safe week. As we start the new year, we are grateful for your unwavering dedication to our patients, community, and one another.
What You Should Know This Week:
- Give Us Theme Ideas. We’re looking for an imaginative, fun, and creative theme for imagery for each floor of the Sheridan Pavilion parking garage on our Camden Campus. Each floor will have its own paint color, and we need images as well for users to easily navigate the garage. Read more and submit your ideas here.
- New Year, New Podcast Episode. In a new season of Out in the Crowd With Mazz and O’Dowd, we’re kicking things off with an incredible milestone—celebrating our three longest-serving Cooper team members, each of whom reached an incredible 50 years of service in 2024. We sat down with these Cooper legends who share their stories, insights, and the experiences over five decades. Click here to listen.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Food Distribution Event. Cooper is partnering with the Food Bank of South Jersey to distribute non-perishable and ready-to-eat food items to Camden County residents on Monday, January 20, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For additional information, click here. Sign up here to volunteer to assist on the day of the event, slots are limited.
- Changes to Pneumatic Tube System Carriers. In the coming weeks, foam inserts will be added to each carrier in the pneumatic tube system to protect specimens at Cooper University Hospital in Camden. To learn more, click here.
- Second Annual Hackathon Registration Is Now Open. The Cooper Innovation Center is hosting its second annual Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Hackathon. This event will bring together stakeholders from across New Jersey to look at ways in which health information technologies (IT) can improve the lives of those in underserved communities. For more information, click here.
- Cooper’s #everyBODYmoves Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Campaign Update. As we step into 2025, we embrace our theme, “Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” highlighting the importance of patient mobility during hospitalization. Click here to see pictures of our extraordinary team and check out the winning entry of the 2024 Autumn Harvest contest, featuring a heartwarming patient success story by Ashley Celeste, Associate Clinical Director.
- Last Day to Give 2024 Communications and Marketing Feedback. How effective was our 2024 internal communications and external marketing? The 2024 Communications and Marketing Effectiveness Survey ends today. Click here to take the short survey.
Reminders:
- New Year, New Recognition Portal. Starting February 2025, Cooper Celebrations will be our new platform for recognizing colleague achievements. To submit nominations for award programs (Team Member of the Month, Manager of the Quarter) before Cooper Celebrations launches, email CooperRewards@CooperHealth.edu. For more details, click here.
- Call for Nominations: 2025 Cooper Camden Nursing Excellence Awards. Please submit your nominations by Friday, January 31, 2025. To review the full nomination packet, click here.
- Cooper Welcomes Optum as New Employee Assistance Program in 2025. All Cooper team members now have access to the many benefits of Optum Emotional Wellbeing Solutions. To see what’s available to you and your eligible dependents, click here.
- Eat, Think, Create. Cooper’s Latinos Unidos Team Resource Group (TRG) invites you to their 2025 Vision Board Event on Thursday, January 16, 2025, to help envision goals and activities for the year. 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, “A More Mindful New Year.” 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 Keith, Justice, Chris, Bethlynn, Victoria, Matt, and Drs. Fedorka, Kaye, and Zeffren. Click here to read more.
Movie Quote: “It’s never too late to begin again.”
Please email CEOQuestions@CooperHealth.edu with any questions or comments.