A patient at Cooper University Hospital caused a fire on Saturday when they lit a cigarette while on oxygen, according to hospital officials. <\/p>\n
In a statement, the hospital\u2019s owner Cooper University Health Care said Tuesday that \u201cteam members acted quickly to save the patient and extinguish the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
The blaze occurred in the hospital\u2019s inpatient unit. Several patients in nearby rooms were relocated as a result of the fire but were not injured, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear whether the patient who caused the fire suffered any injuries. A spokesperson said they couldn\u2019t share the patient\u2019s condition, citing privacy rules. <\/p>\n
Remediation efforts are underway to repair damage from the fire and are expected to be fully completed within a week.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the Camden-based hospital remains open and fully operational. <\/p>\n
Cooper University Health Care is an academic health system affiliated with Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, according to its website. <\/p>\n
It operates MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper as well as three hospitals: Cooper University Hospital in Camden, Cooper University Hospital Cape Regional in Cape May Court House and Children\u2019s Regional Hospital, also in Camden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A patient at Cooper University Hospital caused a fire on Saturday when they lit a cigarette while on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-449848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}