At Cooper, we take pride in working collaboratively to fulfill our mission to serve, to heal, and to educate. As a leading academic health system, the Cooper team has repeatedly pulled together to take on big challenges and provide the highest level of care to our patients.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cooper team faced its largest challenge to date and rose to the occasion. All team members worked together to respond to daily challenges to ensure we continued to provide compassionate care to patients, comfort patients’ loved ones, and look after each other. Daily our One Team. One Purpose. slogan was demonstrated in big and small ways.

We met some of the biggest challenges we faced head on – together. We communicated directly. Worked collaboratively and relied upon each other.

There are always issues that we need to address. There will always be things we need to improve upon. The best way to move forward as a unified team, we believe, is to work directly with each other – you and your team members together with your leaders.

When Cooper managers are not permitted to communicate with you directly and must work through an outside group, collaboration can sometimes become more difficult – even to quickly resolve minor workplace issues. Sometimes discussions even become adversarial and an “us versus them” culture develops. 

We believe direct communication and collaboration is a better approach.

You decide whether installing and outside group to speak on your behalf will foster our culture of One Team. One Purpose.