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Who We Are

The Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative (SNJPC or Cooperative) was instituted in 1981 as a demonstration project by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS).

While the mandate was to reduce infant mortality, initially the Cooperative's activities focused on the coordination of regional neonatal intensive care services, neonatal and maternal transfer and professional education. Over the next decade, the Cooperative became involved in many community-based projects aimed at addressing the prevention of preterm delivery and low birth weight infants.

In 1993, the Cooperative was officially designated the state licensed MCHC for the seven county Southern New Jersey Region. This new designation expanded the Cooperative’s role into pediatric services.

In 1996, with the encouragement and support of the NJDHSS, the MCH Consortia and the state funded Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB) Coalitions were merged.

For the Cooperative, this meant adding the Atlantic City and Camden City Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalitions with the voluntary Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalitions already under the SNJPC umbrella.

The Cooperative oversees an integrated network of hospital and community agencies, is committed to collaboration with local public health agencies and includes consumers as partners in the policy making.