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Cooper Health Honors John and Joyce Sheridan With Building

The Cooper University Health Care system will honor its former president and CEO as well as his wife by naming a building after them.

The Cooper University Health Care system will honor its former president and CEO as well as his wife by naming a building after them more than two years after their deaths. The Cooper University Health Care Board of Trustees Chairman George E. Norcross III announced Sunday that the Three Cooper Plaza building in Camden, New Jersey will be renamed The John and Joyce Sheridan Health Center at Three Cooper Plaza.

John Sheridan, 72, joined the Cooper Health system in 2005 after a career in public service and law. He became president and CEO of Cooper Health in 2008, a position he held until 2014 when he and his wife died under undetermined circumstances. His wife Joyce Sheridan, 69, was a high school social studies teacher.

“John Sheridan left a lasting legacy at Cooper University Health Care and in Camden, a city he worked tirelessly to improve,” Norcross said. “John and his beloved wife, Joyce, loved Cooper, and the Cooper family loved them back. It’s only fitting that they will always be remembered at Cooper University Health Care in this way.”

The John and Joyce Sheridan Health Center is approximately 160,000 square feet and located on the Health Sciences Campus in Camden. It houses primary care, specialists and community health physicians who provide care for local residents.

Sheridan and his wife were found dead in their Montgomery Township home in September, 2014. The Prosecutor’s office initially concluded Sheridan had stabbed his wife, then himself and then set their bedroom on fire. That conclusion was overturned however after the state medical examiner changed the ruling of “self-inflicted injuries” to “injuries of undetermined etiology.”

Prior to the new ruling, Sheridan’s four sons had pushed to have the investigation into their parents’ deaths reopened, gaining support from business and political leaders across the state, including three former New Jersey governors. The sons have offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for their parents' deaths.

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