Children's Regional Hospital at Cooper
Inside Children's Hospital
Our best for your children. Staffed by highly skilled and motivated physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, The Children's Regional Hospital provides quality, pediatric inpatient care. With extensive medical technology and treatment facilities, infants, children and adolescents receive a wide range of treatment services tailored especially to their needs.
Pediatric In-Patient Unit
The pediatric in-patient unit at The Children’s Regional Hospital is specially designed and equipped to handle the intense medical needs of the region’s sickest kids. Opened in the Fall of 1996, this specialty unit is the cornerstone of Cooper’s pediatric hospital and features welcome comforts such as private patient rooms, an open and accessible nurses’ station and a bright and spacious pediatric play room.
Pediatric Emergency Department
The Pediatric Emergency Department of The Children's Regional Hospital is a one-of-a-kind in South Jersey. It is staffed with physicians who are board-certified in both pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine and thus provide an advanced level of pediatric emergency care.
Newborn / Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Cooper’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has the highest designation of its kind that is available in the State and provides specially trained Neonatologists on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Recently renovated, Cooper’s NICU now features 10,000 square feet of beautifully designed clinical space, offering privacy and comfort to the families in its care. This unit is unique to the region and serves more than 400 infants with medical and surgical problems each year. The neonatal intensive care unit of The Children's Regional Hospital has the highest designation for a neonatal center that is available in the State of New Jersey. With a center of this caliber, we are equipped to handle all types of new-born emergencies, including those that are related to respiratory or metabolic disorders, birth defects and surgical problems.
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
This specialty intensive care unit is designed explicitly for the critical care needs of infants and young children. As a Level I pediatric intensive care unit, it is prepared at all times to provide support systems for infants and children who are in life-threatening situations.
Pediatric Care Unit
The Children's Regional Hospital pediatric care unit provides for the inpatient needs of children with complex medical problems. A strong commitment to family centered care and liberal visitation policies allow opportunity for parents to be actively involved in their child's care and to become comfortable with any treatment or procedures which the child may require at home following hospitalization.
Child Life / Play Therapy Program
This program is designed to minimize anxiety and stress experienced by children, adolescents, and families in the medical setting. Familiar experiences such as play, birthday parties, arts and crafts, staying connected with school, and socializing with peers are offered to help normalize the often overwhelming world of the hospital. Child Life Specialists on staff seek to:
- Enhance the young patient's emotional, social, physical, and cognitive growth in the context of his/her family, culture, and stage of development
- Support parents and encourage their participation in their child's health care
- Enhance understanding of medical experiences for children and families
Pediatric Trauma and Emergency Center
For Southern New Jersey's residents, Cooper's name has become synonymous with trauma and emergency care. As the State-designated Level I Trauma Center for the southern half of New Jersey, the area's most critically injured and seriously ill children are transported by air or ground to our facility. In addition, our Trauma Center's commitment to pediatrics has earned it special recognition by the American College of Surgeons. Our Emergency Room capabilities are also uniquely committed to children. We are the only Emergency Room within the region that is staffed by physicians who are both board-certified pediatricians and board-certified pediatric emergency medicine specialists. Pediatric emergency care frequently asked questions.
Regional Perinatal Center
In conjunction with our 5 perinatologists, we have the capabilities as a State-designated Regional Perinatal Center, to provide the highest level of care for mothers with complicated pregnancies and for infants born too small, too soon, or with congenital disorders. A multidisciplinary approach that includes expertise in perinatology, neonatology, nursing, genetics, and social work provides comprehensive care to the mothers, their babies and their families.
Emergency Maternal and Neonatal Transport
In the event that an expectant mother or infant needs to be admitted to our Regional Perinatal Center's facility, transport service is provided by Cooper University Hospital . A team of highly-trained professionals is available 24 hours a day to transport mother or infant, via ambulance or helicopter as necessary.
Nutrition Support Team
A multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, dieticians, and pharmacists provides care and support for many acutely or chronically ill patients who have special nutritional requirements including intravenous nutrition or tube feeding. This team can also provide continuing care after discharge. The Neonatal Neurobehavioral Program/Mid-Atlantic NIDCAP Training Center not only provides individualized developmental care for the babies on our neonatology service but also trains professionals from institutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region in the application of Neonatal Individualized Developmental Care (NIDCAP). It is one of only 11 such training centers in the United States today.
To make an appointment with a Cooper University Hospital physician at an office near you, please call 1-800-8-COOPER (800-826-6737) to speak with a member of our physician referral and information service.