Welcome to the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers online! The Coalition is a citywide organization of social workers, nurses, physicians, administrators, and other individuals that serve the health needs of Camden, New Jersey residents. We are providers that work in a variety of settings - from small neighborhood based practices to hospital based offices - with the mission to improve the health status of Camden residents and to make the health system more accessible for the underserved. Browse our site and find out more about what we do! If you have any questions, contact us!

Next Camden Care Management Meeting...

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
9:15am - 10:15am
Cooper Hospital - Dorrance Building 408
Details...

Coalition in the News...

Medical Plan Aids Patients, Hospitals
Courier-Post
Sunday, October 12, 2008
"Hospital staff describe patients like Collins as "super users" -- a loose term for those who show up in emergency rooms at astounding rates or spend weeks in expensive hospital care. They say many of these patients don't have the means or wherewithal to visit a doctor regularly, so they turn to hospitals, which are required to treat anyone under federal law, when they get sick..."

Repeat 'Super Users' are Swamping the ER
The Star Ledger
Sunday, July 13, 2008
"Researchers studying the crisis of America's overcrowded emergency rooms are beginning to focus on this largely undocumented phenomenon, the super users who turn to hospital emergency rooms dozens, even hundreds, of times.  Researchers say a seemingly intractable problem could be solved, in large part, by focusing on just the top 1 percent of emergency room users, who in Camden alone cost $46 million over five years.  A small city and the nation's poorest, Camden is shaping up as a laboratory to study ways to fix this costly national problem..."