Cooper University Health Care

Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in South Jersey and provides access to primary, specialty, tertiary, and urgent care, all within one complete health system. Cooper has nearly 14,000 team members including 1,600 nurses, more than 1,000 employed physicians representing 95 specialties and subspecialties, and more than 600 advanced practice professionals. Hospitals throughout the region send their most complex and critically ill and injured to Cooper for treatment by our highly skilled experts. Based in Camden, New Jersey, the company was founded in 1887 and operates as a not-for-profit health system with no shareholders, governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees. Ranked year after year by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top health systems in the Philadelphia Metro area, Cooper is consistently recognized for its quality, safety, and exceptional patient care.

Cooper has three hospitals: South Jersey’s only Level I trauma center, Cooper University Hospital in Camden, which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region; Cooper University Hospital Cape Regional in Cape May Court House, and Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper, which is the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley. Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), six urgent care centers, and more than 130 outpatient offices from the Delaware River to the Jersey Shore, including large regional hubs in Camden, Cherry Hill, Moorestown, Voorhees, Willingboro, and Sewell. The system also includes The Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper, a substance abuse rehabilitation and inpatient treatment facility operated in partnership with Advanced Recovery Services. Cardiac and neuroscience care are offered through joint ventures with Inspira Health, and the company's Digestive Health office in Mount Laurel provides a full range of gastrointestinal services. The company also offers interpretation services around the clock in more than 250 languages.

Cooper University Health Care is affiliated with – and its physicians make up the faculty of – Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, which is located on the Cooper Health Sciences Campus in Camden, New Jersey. Cooper has a long history in the City of Camden and is playing a leading role in its revitalization. The company's trauma and emergency medicine experts provide on-site training to special operations combat medics from the U.S. Military's Special Operations Command and to medical personnel with the U.S. Department of State Emergency Management Specialists.