On Feb. 11, Cooper University Health Care announced the opening of its new integrated care facility, Cooper Multispecialty Care at Market Street in Camden. Patients can visit clinicians for a range of health care services, including treatment for substance-use disorders, primary care, psychiatry, integrated child and adolescent behavioral health, addiction, and obstetrics and gynecological services, allowing for greater collaboration among several specialty services.
Virtua Health has recently partnered with Unite Us, a nationally recognized technology partner for social care transformation, to work toward improving coordinated care by connecting patients with vital community support services. Virtua intends for the integration to empower its clinicians and social workers in helping patients benefit from both internal and third-party programs and services such as food and nutrition aid, housing support, mental and behavioral health counseling, and financial assistance.
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and the Coriell Institute for Medical Research announced late last month that they’re bringing a Strategic Innovation Center to Camden. The roughly 45,000-square-foot facility at the Lewis L. Coriell Medical Research Center, which is projected to create more than 100 new jobs, will include a cutting-edge incubator and laboratory spaces for emerging biotech companies, and will work with the state’s higher education institutions to promote academic collaboration.
When Samaritan hosted its annual Celebration of Life Gala Feb. 8, the celebration raised a record-breaking amount that exceeded $286,000. Those funds will support the nonprofit’s life-enhancing services, which benefit seriously ill patients and their families throughout South Jersey.
