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The Public Relations Department is staffed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday. A public relations representative is on call 24/7. If you are a member of the media and need to reach us after business hours for an urgent matter, please call the main hospital at (856) 342-2000 and ask the operator to page a public relations representative.

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Contact our office at (856) 382-6449.

Our Office

Public Relations Department
Cooper University Health Care
3 Executive Campus
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08002
Phone: (856) 382-6449
Fax: (856) 382-6499
Email: shaffer-lori@cooperhealth.edu

Our Staff

Lori Shaffer (Shaffer-Lori@cooperhealth.edu)
Director, Public Relations 
(856) 382-6449

Sharon Clark (Clark-sharon@cooperhealth.edu)
Public Relations Associate
(856) 382-6439

Melissa Maycott (Maycott-melissa@cooperhealth.edu)
Public Relations Assistant
(856) 382-6463

Jill Lawlor (Lawlor-Jill@cooperhealth.edu)
Vice President, Marketing and Public Relations
(856) 382-6437

Media Relations Policy

To effectively facilitate the requests of media reporting on news and events at Cooper University Health Care, the Department of Public Relations has established the following guidelines for reporters requesting information or interviews:

  • Public Relations - Media Relations GraphicMedia must arrange all interviews and photo shoots with Cooper staff or patients in advance through the Department of Public Relations.
  • To ensure confidentiality, privacy, and appropriate sensitivity to patients and families, reporters, film crews, and photographers must always be accompanied by a Public Relations staff person while on the Cooper campus.
  • Media will be met by a Public Relations staff in the lobby or specified location and escorted to the appropriate location in the hospital.
  • No patient information other than a one-word condition description is made available to the media. No information will be released on patients who are not identified by name by the media.
  • Patients who agree to be interviewed or filmed at the hospital must provide prior verbal or written consent to Public Relations.

 

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