Cooper 2020 Nurse of the Year, Steven Teitelman, RN, BSN (center, back), with members of Cooper’s Patient Care Services leadership team. (Photo provided)

Cooper 2020 Nurse of the Year, Steven Teitelman, RN, BSN (center, back), with members of Cooper’s Patient Care Services leadership team. (Photo provided)
Cooper University Health Care Chairman George E. Norcross, III announced today that the health system will increase the minimum wage it pays employees to $15 an hour, the first health system in New Jersey to make such a commitment to its full-time, part-time, and per-diem employees.
Cooper is one of approximately 40 sites in the United States and the only hospital in the Philadelphia region participating in a clinical trial for Boston Scientific’s Watchman FLXTM device.
Expanding to meet growing patient demand, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper recently announced the opening of a new outpatient diagnostic mammography center on its Camden campus.