Editor’s note: The new Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute is scheduled for a mid-2019 opening. Until then, Atlantic says services will continue uninterrupted at its Mount Kemble Avenue site in Morristown. A spokesman for the health system says Atlantic is looking for future homes for the sleep center, behavioral health, Monsignor Corr Stroke Center, audiology, outpatient rehabilitation services and the Atlantic Medical Group physical medicine and rehabilitation physician practice.
From Atlantic Health:
COREY COOPER NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR NEW ATLANTIC REHABILITATION INSTITUTE
US Air Force veteran, with background in pharmacy and rehabilitation, to lead new joint venture facility
MORRISTOWN, NJ and LOUISVILLE, KY – OCTOBER 2018 – Atlantic Health System and Kindred Healthcare today announced that Corey Cooper has been named Executive Director for the new Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute, a state-of-the-art comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facility set to open in 2019.
Cooper will oversee the facility, which is a joint venture between Atlantic Health System and Kindred Healthcare.
The organizations broke ground on the facility in May. As of Oct. 1, 2018, Cooper oversees operations of acute rehabilitation at Atlantic Rehabilitation’s current home on Mount Kemble Avenue in Morristown.
“We are pleased to be able to offer our community a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center that will help our patients recover in the best way possible,” said Trish O’Keefe, PhD, RN, president, Morristown Medical Center.
“With that responsibility comes the need for a proven leader, and we are proud that Corey Cooper will be leading our team into the next chapter of Atlantic Rehabilitation in its new home.”
The building, once completed, will provide a new, modern home for the inpatient rehabilitation services and programs that continue to be offered at the Mount Kemble Avenue location.
“I’m very excited to be part of this great endeavor,” said Cooper. “The combination of a rehabilitation industry leader and a nationally recognized health care provider positions Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute to continue providing excellent patient care to our community, and increasing value to the entire continuum of care.”
Cooper has more than 12 years of health care experience, most recently serving as regional director of operations of post-acute care and inpatient rehabilitation for Community Health Systems (CHS) based in Franklin, Tenn.
During his tenure with CHS, Cooper led the operation of 15 acute rehabilitation programs, including business development, financial review/performance and regulatory compliance.
Prior to joining CHS, Cooper served as a Corporate Director of Pharmacy with oversight of 25 long-term acute care hospital and acute rehabilitation directors of pharmacy at Post-Acute Medical LLC. (PAM). As a member of the PAM corporate team, Cooper aided in the successful opening of several new hospitals, including three new acute rehabilitation hospitals, as well as several acquisitions.
While working as a clinician, Corey spent three years working in the area of hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplant at Brooke Army Medical Center (now named San Antonio Military Medical Center) in San Antonio, Texas. He is a patient-centered leader and administrator, focused on providing value for all patients and the community.
Cooper developed the foundation for his leadership while proudly serving for eight years in the United States Air Force, where he was assigned to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, and Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Cooper earned an Associate’s degree in applied science from the Community College of the Air Force. He attended the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, earning a Doctorate of Pharmacy degree.
“We are confident that Corey will help lead this partnership that will address the growing need for inpatient rehabilitation services in the New Jersey and New York area,” said Russ Bailey, chief operating officer for Kindred’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals.
“This quality-focused collaboration will deliver the kind of excellent care that improves patients’ lives and enables our inpatient rehabilitation business to continuously outperform peers in key clinical measures.”
The new Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute—a two-story, 38-bed comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facility located in Madison, NJ —will provide patient-focused care dedicated to the treatment and recovery of individuals, with intensive specialized rehabilitation services for patients who have experienced a loss of function from an injury or illness.
The facility will feature all-private rooms, a secure, acquired brain injury unit with private dining and therapy gym, large interdisciplinary gyms, a therapeutic courtyard with golf, basketball and varied surfaces, a dialysis suite, and will offer specialty programs dedicated to neuro, stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputation.
The building will also include a transitional living apartment designed to simulate a residential apartment, to prepare patients for their daily living tasks before they are discharged home.
It will be built on approximately 46,000 square feet of land, part of a 40-acre parcel of land owned by Atlantic Health System that will be developed into a campus for health services.
The property is located off Route 124 in Madison within the Giralda Farms campus, once the former estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, and is now considered one of the most prestigious office parks in the metropolitan area.
The building was designed by Earl Swensson Associates, and will be built by Holt Construction.
About Atlantic Health System
Atlantic Health System, headquartered in Morristown, N.J., is an integrated health care delivery system powered by a workforce of more than 16,500 team members and 4,800 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities. The system serves a population of 5 million, with more than 400 sites of care, including six hospitals: Morristown Medical Center, Overlook Medical Center, Newton Medical Center, Chilton Medical Center, Hackettstown Medical Center and Goryeb Children’s Hospital.
Atlantic Health System provides care for the full continuum of health care needs including 11 urgent care centers, Atlantic Rehabilitation and Atlantic Home Care and Hospice. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.
In addition to the employed workforce, Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network represents more than 2,500 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ. Atlantic Health System leads the Healthcare Transformation Consortium, a partnership of six regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability and is a founding member of both the PIER Consortium – Partners in Innovation, Education, and Research – a streamlined clinical trial system that will expand access to groundbreaking research across six health systems in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and AllSpire Health Partners, a consortium of five leading health care organizations dedicated to serving patients, families and communities in New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
About Kindred Healthcare
Kindred Healthcare, LLC is a healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of approximately $3.4 billion(1). Kindred through its subsidiaries has approximately 38,200 employees providing healthcare services in 1,795 locations in 45 states, including 74 long-term acute care hospitals, 22 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 12 sub-acute units, 98 inpatient rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and contract rehabilitation service businesses which served 1,589 non-affiliated sites of service. Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Healthcare Companies for nine years, Kindred’s mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer and employee we serve. For more information, go to www.kindredhealthcare.com. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
1. Revenues for the last twelve months ended June 30, 2018.
