Patient Guide

Visting Cooper

:: Visits by Family and Friends
Visits are an important part of your treatment. However, to make sure that you receive the rest and care you need, visitors are asked to observe the following visiting guidelines.

  • Visiting CooperAll visitors should obtain visitor passes from the information desk in the main lobby. These passes are to be returned to the desk when the visitors leave the hospital.
  • All visitors are expected to respect established visiting hours of each unit.
  • We suggest that visitors who have a contagious disease, including a common cold, postpone visiting until they are well.
  • Cooper is a smoke-free hospital. That means smoking is not permitted anywhere in our hospital buildings and offices.
  • Due to space limitations, we ask that families limit the number of guests present at bedside to two at a time.

:: Patient Visiting Hours
We know how important it is to you to visit someone you love that is hospitalized. We, therefore, provide extensive general visiting hours for your convenience.

  • General Visiting Hours: 9 am - 11 pm (for patients in South 7, South 8, South 9, North 10 and South 10)
  • Cardiac Care Unit: 11:30 am - 6 pm and 8 pm - 9:30 pm
  • Critical Care/Intensive Care Unit: 11 am - 12:30 pm, 3 pm - 5 pm and 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
  • Maternity: 11 am - 8 pm (Fathers 9 am – 9 pm)
  • Newborn Intensive Care Unit: 24 hours and the parents may bring anyone they wish with them at any time
  • Oncology Care: 24 hours a day for parents (sleeping accommodations for one); General visitation hours apply for all other visitors
  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: 24 hours a day for parents (sleeping accommodations for one); General visitation hours apply for all other visitors
  • Pediatric Patient Care Units: 11 am - 9:30 pm, One parent is welcome to stay overnight
  • Psychiatric Care: 12 pm -1 pm and 5 pm - 8 pm
  • Trauma/Trauma Step Down Unit: 1 pm - 2 pm and 5 pm - 6 pm
  • Trauma Intensive Care: 1 pm - 2 pm and 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm (Please note: Visiting times in Trauma Intensive Care Unit may be delayed due to the completion of physician rounds).
  • Trauma Patient Care (N7): 9 am - 11 pm

:: Visitor Parking
Parking for visitors is available in an enclosed parking garage attached to the hospital. The garage is operated by an independent management company. Hourly and daily rates are charged. A valet parking service is available from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Visitors are eligible to receive a parking discount if the person they are visiting has been hospitalized for 11 or more continuous days. More information can be obtained at the security desk off the main lobby.

One and Three Cooper Plaza Parking Rates
Up to 1 Hour $5.00
1 - 2 Hours $6.00
2 - 3 Hours $8.00
3 - 24 Hours $10.00

:: Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald HouseThe Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey is located adjacent to Cooper. It is a home-away-from-home for the families of any patient who might need such a temporary residence. With a small paid staff and the help of hundreds of volunteers, the Ronald McDonald House of Southern New Jersey is serves about 600 families each year. Some stay only a few days and others may stay for several months. Some come only once and others must return several times a year because their child has a chronic illness. These children may be premature infants, have been involved in a bike or automobile accident, have cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart or lung problems, asthma, cleft palates or many other serious problems. But the Ronald House gives their families the common bond of shared experience and ability to rest and regain strength to care for their children.

For a minimal fee, a patient's family may get a room on a space available basis. Pediatric patients and their families have first priority. Visit the Ronald McDonald House of SNJ Web site at http://www.ronaldhouse-snj.org/, call (856) 966-HOME or email teddy@ronaldhouse-snj.org