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Cooper spends $13.5M on new inpatient cancer unit

MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, in Camden, will begin accepting patients early next month in a new 30-bed inpatient oncology unit at Cooper University Hospital at a cost of $13.5 million, Cooper said Wednesday.

MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, in Camden, will begin accepting patients early next month in a new 30-bed inpatient oncology unit at Cooper University Hospital at a cost of $13.5 million, Cooper said Wednesday.

The unit of private rooms on the fifth floor of Cooper's Roberts Pavilion will replace an existing set of semi-private rooms for cancer inpatients in the Kelemen Building.

In its most recent disclosure to bond holders, Cooper said it treated 24,268 oncology outpatients in the three months ended March 31, up 26 percent from the same period the year before.

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