About Our Program

Cooper University Health Care is the leading tertiary-level provider serving the southern New Jersey region. Consumers and physicians recognize the system as being South Jersey’s leading medical center.

As an academic medical center, Cooper offers patients quality health care from primary care to specialty care in one or more of its premier Institutes and Centers of Excellence. As a partner of MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the nation’s leading cancer hospitals, we offer a full range of prevention and treatment options for lung cancer.

The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is dedicated to providing patient-centered, multidisciplinary care for the Lung cancer, Interstitial lung disease and Pulmonary hypertension patients.

We offer state of the art interventional pulmonary and plural disease procedures for the critically ill patient. The Dr. Edward D. Viner Intensive Care Unit at Cooper University Hospital is an acknowledged center of excellence in the Delaware Valley, featuring a 25,000 square foot, 30-bed state-of-the-art unit with the latest in advanced imaging and invasive monitoring equipment.

There are 123 critical care beds divided among the Medical/Surgical ICU (30), Intermediate ICU (12), Pediatric ICU (5), Trauma ICU (30) Trauma Step-down Unit (10), Neuro critical care(16), CCU (12), Stroke Unit (4), and four beds in our Critical Care Admitting Areas (CCAA).

Our multidisciplinary critical care teams include pharmacologists and provide rapid response, consultation, and management of patients outside the intensive care unit. The Cooper Transfer Center facilitates the safe, timely transfer and management of adult critically ill patients from various outlying hospitals in the Delaware Valley.