Hospitals & Healthcare Facilities
- Mobilizing Healthcare Professionals for Smokefree Air
- 100% Smokefree Hospitals and Nursing Homes
- Smoking Policies in U.S. Outpatient Drug Treatment Facilities
- University of Michigan Tobacco Consultation Services
- NC Prevention Partners: Hospitals Are Leaders in Prevention
- Keeping Your Hospital Property Smoke-Free
- Destination Tobacco-Free: A Practical Tool for Hospitals and Health Systems
- Tobacco-free Living in Psychiatric Settings - National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Toolkit
There
is a rapidly growing list of 100%
Smokefree Hospitals, Medical Facilities, and Nursing Homes. For healthcare
facilities interested in adopting a 100% smokefree policy, the Mayo
Clinic has good sample policy language.
NC Prevention Partners has an excellent program to help hospitals adopt campus-wide policies. Every acute care hospital campus in North Carolina is now smokefree. Check out their website for sample timelines, policies, materials, and more.
For assistance on making your healthcare facility 100% smokefree, contact ANR. ANR can help you with lessons learned and put you in contact with other experts and resources.
Healthcare professionals are an important component of every
smokefree air campaign. Doctors, dentists, nurses, dental hygienists, and healthcare
students not only have a shared interest in promoting and protecting public health,
but many are also are well-known and well-respected within their communities.
In fact, the World Health Organization dedicated World
No Tobacco Day 2005 to the essential role healthcare professionals and facilities
play in creating environments safe from secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco
use.
Click here to learn about effective and creative ways to approach your healthcare provider about getting involved in your smokefree air campaign.
Adopt a Smokefree Healthcare Facility Policy!
More and more healthcare facilities are adopting voluntary 100% smokefree campus policies, reinforcing their steadfast mission to promoting and protecting health. Not only do smokefree policies further promote a healthcare facility's health mission, but smokefree healthcare facilities:
- Aid in community, employee, and patient cessation efforts;
- Lower maintenance costs; and
- Increase worker productivity.
The Joint Commission, the world's largest healthcare standards setting and accrediting body, and researchers from the Henry Ford Health System's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, completed a survey regarding hospitals' smokefree campus policies and concluded that by February 2008, 45 percent of US hospitals had adopted "smoke-free campus" policies. In addition, "...another 15 percent indicated that they would be implementing similar policies in the near future. Hence, it is safe to assume on the basis of these results that the majority of US hospitals will have smoke-free campuses by the end of 2009."
North Carolina Prevention Partners has a great
online toolkit to help hospitals plan and implement tobacco-free policies.
The fact that every NC acute care hospital now has a property-wide tobacco-free
policy speaks to this program's effectiveness.
Start
today! The University
of Arkansas Medical School's Smokefree Hospital Tool Kit offers sample language,
timeline, implementation, and cessation plans.
ANR
awarded Dr. Robert Shepard (pictured here with smokefree advocates from Montana,
his home state) and Dr. Richard Sargent with its "Advocate of the Year Award"
at the 2003 National Conference on Tobacco or Health. Both doctors demonstrated
outstanding dedication to smokefree air through research and advocacy.
ANR is frequently contacted by individuals who wonder why their physicians have not asked them whether they are exposed to secondhand smoke. Nymox's NicAlert, a clinical screening tool that measures for nicotine and tobacco exposure, is a way for doctors to screen all patients for exposure to secondhand smoke, since even a little exposure can be very dangerous.
Weeks after its annual meeting in 2004, the British Medical Association began collecting personal letters from doctors that document the effects of secondhand smoke on their patients. As of June 2005, over 4500 letters have been collected, all issuing the same prescription for secondhand smoke exposure: smokefree environments. BMA plans to send these letters, along with its own, to the Prime Minister, demanding that all public places be 100% smokefree.
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Hospital
policy is a good step DEARBORN:
Council moves toward lifting smoking ban within 100 ... Smokers
angry as Maine Med's ban nears Rader
is a tobacco-free campus Doctors
group: Ban sale of tobacco in hospitals MUSC
president responds to complaints about hospital smokers in nearby neighborhood Sebasticook
ValleyHealth earns award Honokaa,
Ka'u hospitals going tobacco free County
Psychiatric Health Facility To Be Smoke-Free Beginning May 1, 2013, the Santa Barbara Psychiatric Health Facility operated by Santa Barbara County Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Services will no longer permit smoking on the premises. … Hospital
smoking ban has neighbors in a huff WENATCHEE — Ever since Central Washington Hospital banned smoking on its Wenatchee campus in February, smokers have made their way to a sidewalk to light up. Residents of the Fuller Street neighborhood now say they have to put up with cigarette butts and the sight of people in scrubs and other hospital workers, visitors and even patients smoking near their homes, The Wenatchee World reported Tuesday. "Now all the cigarette butts blow over here to our house and we have to pick them up," said Dean Dillard. "You see all these professionals with their scrubs on and it's just not a good vision," said his wife, Joyce. "Do they wash their hands and brush their teeth before they go back to work? I wonder." The hospital put out a sand-filled bucket for butts and it's an eyesore, said Susie Huntley, another Fuller Street resident. "It's patients, visitors and employees," she said. "They sit right across from our house and smoke. I've got a couple of small kids and they see this and smell it and they want to know why." … Michael
E. DeBakey VA Medical Center to restrict smoking on its campus Goodall
Hospital praised for efforts to stamp out tobacco SANFORD — The Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network recently recognized Goodall Hospital for meeting best practice standards around creating a tobacco-free environment and supporting tobacco-free lifestyles. … East
Hawaii hospitals, clinics going tobacco-free To further its commitment to improving community health, the East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation has adopted a tobacco-free policy that will go into effect Wednesday, May 1. This policy encompasses all hospitals and associated clinics on the campuses of Hilo Medical Center, Hale Hoola Hamakua in Honokaa and Ka’u Hospital, including businesses leasing office space on property operated by the East Hawaii Region of HHSC. The use of tobacco products will be prohibited on these campuses, including the parking lots. … WCGH
honored for creating tobacco-free environment ($$) AGH,
Neighbors Go Tobacco-Free Starting May 1 31
hospitals recognized for addressing tobacco ($$) PMC
moving to be a smoke-free facility Morton
Hospital free smoking cessation program starts Wednesday Orlando
Health to start tobacco-free hiring policy Charleston's
Hospital District is now smoke free Naval
Health Clinic New England, Naval Branch Health Clinics prepare to go
tobacco-free Penn
Medicine decision not to hire smokers part of a controversial trend U
Penn's head of smoking treatment says no-hire rule for smokers is ... UPenn
health system to stop hiring tobacco users, except at NJ facilities Ampla
Health going tobacco-free at its Chico, Gridley, Oroville sites Enloe
Medical Center to go tobacco-free at all locations EASTAR
health system to go tobacco free March 1 ($$) Smoking,
Once Used to Reward, Faces a Ban in Mental Hospitals Ashtabula
County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to become ... Dearborn
City Hearing on Oakwood Smoking Ban Set for Thursday North
Country Health: North Country HealthCare goes tobacco-free Huntsville
Hospital going smoke-free on Friday, including outdoors ... Decatur
Morgan Hospital adopts new tobacco-free policy EDITORIAL:
DCH's tobacco ban is the right choice DCH
Health System approves ban on tobacco use West
Hawaii Hospitals Go Smoke-Free Charleston
approves outdoor smoking ban for streets and sidewalks in the hospital
district Hospitals'
tobacco ban going smoothly Altoona
Regional Goes Smoke-Free As
of Jan. 1, Beebe will not hire tobacco users Madisonville
hospital to ban smoking in 2013 BALOG
COLUMN: Smoke-free zone improves everyone's health Charleston
'tobacco-free zone' measure passes first reading Tobacco
Free Zone proposed for blocks around Roper Hospital, MUSC Hospital
plans to be tobacco-free facility Russellville
Hospital smoke-free as of Dec. 17 MCE
to go tobacco-free PVH
tobacco-free policy takes effect Valley
View going smoke-free Thursday One
in five smokers lights up while hospitalized Woman
battling cancer wants smoking ban enforced PVH
going tobacco free Nov. 15 Kudos
to new smoke-free campus at TMC Kudos to the Teton County Hospital District Board and the Teton Medical Center administration and staff on the hospital's conversion to a smoke-free campus as ... Altoona
Regional to Adopt Tobacco-free Policy The Altoona Regional Health System Board of Directors has approved
a tobacco free policy that will take effect Jan. 1. Cabell
Huntington, Marshall Health to go tobacco-free Nov. 15 TMC
going tobacco-free RiverStone
Health is Tobacco Free BILLINGS - RiverStone Health went tobacco-free Monday, making it the 48th medical or healthcare organization in Montana to implement the policy. ... Bay
Pines VA tightens tobacco rules NE
Ohio Medical University bans tobacco SMH
campus going tobacco-free Health
briefs Arcadia's
Methodist Hospital campus to go tobacco-free next year Congratulations
to Lady of the Sea Johnson
Memorial Medical Center to impose smoke-free ban on ... VALLEY
VIEW GOING SMOKE, TOBACCO-FREE TRMC
goes tobacco-free as part of wellness effort A health and wellness initiative under way at Troy Regional Medical Center continues this week as the campus goes tobacco-free. Chambers
Health goes tobacco free Medical
center takes healthy step The decision to become a completely non-smoking facility was made by a hospital committee composed of smoking and non-smoking employees as well as ... Medical
center goes tobacco-free on Lewiston campuses ($$) Tobacco-dependent patients, employees and visitors to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center will be given free gum, mints, toothpicks and stress balls as the ... TMH
tobacco-free policy revised A policy that prohibits smoking on The Memorial Hospital grounds is still set to go into effect next month, but with a few changes. … Smoking
banned at Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Already, many of the major institutions on the medical campus are tobacco-free,
including Kaleida Health Kaleida Health Latest from The Business Journals
... SMMC
receives top tobacco-free award Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford has won a gold level award
for its efforts to create a tobacco-free hospital environment in 2012.
… The recognition, given by the Maine Tobacco-Free Hospital Network
in collaboration with the Partnership For A Tobacco-Free Maine, rewards
hospitals for ... Hospital
to prohibit all tobacco usage Memorial Hospital in Martinsville will become tobacco-free on March
31, it announced Wednesday in a news release. Beginning on that date,
tobacco use of any ... Huntsville
Hospital is going smoke-free in 2013 By Chris Welch, The Huntsville Times HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital
will also be smoke-free and the new Madison Hospital opened as a smoke-free
... California
Assembly votes to outlaw smoking on hospital campuses Many hospitals, they said, have already voluntarily banned smoking.
... "You want to ban smoking outside," he said. "The
last thing California needs is ... The Assembly voted 45-23 to pass a bill (AB 1278), by Assembly member
Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), that would ban smoking on hospital campuses,
the Los Angeles ... Riverside
Shore locations go smoke-free Ore.
curbs smoking among substance abusers The state of Oregon is fighting tobacco use among people with mental
illness and substance abuse disorders, officials say. ... Gardner
hospital stamps out smoking in quiet zone Smoking has long been banned inside Heywood Hospital and on its grounds, but through a new Board of Health rule, smokers will need to take their habit further down the road. ... Southcoast
Health System to go 100% smoke and tobacco free on January 1 Southcoast Health System will become 100% smoke and tobacco Free, effective
January 1. The goal of the program is to create a healing environment
for patients. ... Cambridge
Health Alliance to go tobacco-free Winchester
Hospital pledges to go 'smoke-free' S.
Utah health facilities are going tobacco-free Hospital
going smoke-free Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will be 100 percent smoke-
and tobacco-free on all surrounding grounds and facilities owned, leased
or operated by the hospital beginning on Monday, spokesman Peter Haigney
said. ... All
Wabash General Hospital campus sites will become tobacco-free June 1
Keeping
Your Hospital Property Smoke-Free (PDF) Henry
Ford Health System Co-Authors How-to Manual for Going Smoke Free on
Hospital Campuses Court
Upholds Smoking Ban at Pennsylvania's ACMH Hospital Mass.
hospitals hope to go tobacco-free in 2011 The Massachusetts Hospital Association is teaming up with the Department of Public Health this month to unveil the new tobacco-free hospital initiative. Supporters say hospitals should participate in the voluntary program
to help reinforce the state's anti-smoking message. ... Tampa
Bay hospitals ring in the new year by going tobacco-free Hospitals around the Tampa Bay region are ringing in 2011 with a healthy resolution long in the works: extinguishing on-campus smoking. Tampa General Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospitals and the Morton Plant Mease health care system are among those becoming smoke-free zones with the start of the year. That means no exceptions. Staffers can't light up in parked cars. Visitors
can't smoke in the gardens. And the hospitals are tobacco-free, so there's
no resorting to options that don't produce smoke. At Tampa General,
employees even asked if they could lean over the sidewalk to smoke over
the surrounding water. The answer was no. ... Tobacco
butting out of hospital grounds Tobacco is being snuffed out completely at the hospital and a couple of nursing homes in the area. Effective January 1, 2011, Douglas County Hospital, Knute Nelson and Galeon of Osakis will become tobacco-free grounds. PrimeWest Health is also working toward implementing a tobacco-free grounds policy and will have an effective date in the near future, according to Douglas County Public Health. While all are tobacco-free inside, the new policy has expanded to prohibit
the use of tobacco products on all grounds, parking lots and property.
... Sebastian
River Medical Center plans smoke-free facilities Nov. 1 Sebastian River Medical Center is going tobacco-free, campus wide on Nov. 1. As of that date, no tobacco use of any kind will be permitted inside or outside any of the hospital facilities. This initiative will include the elimination of designated smoking areas outside of the hospital, where employees, patients and visitors currently may use tobacco products. As a healthcare organization, committed to the health and safety of patients and the community, Sebastian River Medical Center has a responsibility to take a leadership role on this major health issue. The hospital’s goal is to treat the whole patient, both mentally and physically. Allowing patients to use tobacco products while undergoing medical care and treatment is contrary to the facility’s mission. ... Walla
Walla hospitals ban smoking WALLA WALLA, Wash.—The first of the year you won't be able to smoke at two Walla Walla hospitals. They are going tobacco free. Smoking has been banned at all public locations and places of employment in Washington State since 2005. Now General Hospital and Providence Saint Mary Medical Center are joining in on the ban January 1st. "Tobacco causes cancer, it promotes illness, and disease. We should be tobacco free as a way to encourage both the community and our own staff to be healthier," says Kathleen Obenland, Providence Saint Mary Medical Center. The Washington State Department of Health says almost 11% of people in Walla Walla County smoke. That's about $12.4 million in healthcare and lost wages every year ... Smoking
around hospitals gets smoked Dr. Charles Brantigan hates that "stinking fume" that wafts from cigarettes. Yet, the Denver critical care physician spoke yesterday before the Denver City Council in opposition to a bill aimed at removing a sunset provision to a city ban on smoking on the public rights-of-way adjourning hospitals. The City Council voted 11-2 last night to back removing the sunset provision, making it permanently illegal to smoke cigarettes around hospitals in Denver, to the ire of Dr. Brantigan. While the doctor hates cigarettes and smoking, he doesn't believe the city should prohibit smoking around hospitals. The reason is not because he believes people should be able to smoke where they want, but because he says the city doesn't do its job enforcing the smoking ban around hospitals in the first place. ... Hurley
Medical Center proposes smoking ban for hospital campus; adjacent public
streets FLINT, Michigan -- Several Flint City Council members are wary about a proposed Hurley Medical Center smoking ban that would include public sidewalks and streets adjoining Hurley property. Hurley officials are asking the council to approve a city ordinance
that would ban smoking on Hurley's campus, as well as any "publicly
owned property contiguous to a hospital campus," including but
not limited to sidewalks, lawns, streets and alleys ... Hospital
announces complete smoking ban PUTNAM — Effective Sept. 1, smoking will not be allowed anywhere
on Day Kimball Healthcare properties, including buildings, grounds,
parking areas or inside vehicles parked at the facility. ... Anderson
City Council to tackle smoking proposal, city budget Smoking near AnMed Health campuses and other health-care related properties in Anderson would become more difficult if Anderson City Council approves a proposal. Campuses of AnMed Health, which is based in the city, are already smoke-free, but the new proposal pushed by AnMed Health would allow any medical building in the city to set up - or not - an extended no-smoking area. The proposal would create a 25-foot, smoke-free area that begins at the edge of a medical building. So smoking on public sidewalks or right of way areas outside of any participating building could lead to a fine of $10 to $25. ... Judge
says ACMH Hospital can ban smoking Covenant
campuses now smoke-free SAGINAW — Covenant HealthCare completed its transition to tobacco-free and smoke-free campuses on Saturday, May 1. All smoking and tobacco use is now banned from the buildings and grounds of all Covenant HealthCare sites as stated Friday in a Covenant-issued press release: "The restrictions of this policy include any and all tobacco delivery devices, including smokeless options, with the exception of Nicorette gum, which is available for visitors in the Covenant gift shops, and nicotine patches." "E-cigarettes, while not covered under Michigan's smoke-free air
law, are not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration and
are prohibited under the new Covenant policy. Prescribed nicotine delivery
devices may be used in non-public areas only." ... Worcester
looks to toughen smoking rules Hospitals
Team Up to Create Smoke Free Campuses ( CENTRALIA ) – Smoking is bad for you and everyone knows it. Now, officials from the local hospital plan to ban smoking outside Providence-Centralia facilities. Leaders are planning a tobacco-free campus beginning this summer. It means all smoking areas will be eliminated after August 2. The new outdoor smoking ban on hospital property also applies to Providence Saint Peter Hospital, the Providence Rochester clinic, and Capitol Medical Center. Hospital leaders say they want to promote healing and improve the working environment for patients, visitors and staff. ... E.A.
Conway campus to become smoke free on June 1 E. A. Conway Medical Center announced Monday morning it will become a tobacco-free campus effective June 1. This will mean no smoking or tobacco use of any kind on hospital owned or operated property, a news released said. “As a regional leader in health care and promoter of healthy lifestyle changes, we are obligated to provide an environment free from the documented health hazards associated with secondhand smoke for our patients, visitors, physicians and employees. Tobacco use on our campus undermines our efforts to create a safe and healthy environment,” Aryon McGuire, hospital administrator, said. ... Hospital
gets smoking ban on Newell road BRISTOL — City councilors Tuesday gave their unanimous backing to naming a municipal street beside Bristol Hospital a no-smoking zone. The hospital made a formal request last year to have Newell Road declared a tobacco-free zone, the first city street to gain that designation. City Councilor David Mills said that while he voted for the measure,
he is concerned it may be a problem. ... Delray
Medical Center bans smoking on grounds Delray Medical Center is enacting a permanent smoke break on its campus. With the move, the hospital joins Boca Raton Community Hospital as a smoke-free medical center. Effective immediately, no one is allowed to smoke on the Delray Medical Center grounds, 5352 Linton Blvd. The hospital said it's helping smokers quit and protecting others from secondhand smoke. Delray Medical Center officials are offering employees a free smoking-cessation
course as well as online and telephone coaching. ... Five
hospitals to become tobacco-free workplaces in Jan. 2011 Surgical technician Carole Smith, 45, has smoked for 20 years. When she started working at East Tennessee Children's Hospital three months ago, she already wanted to quit the cigarettes. But a new policy leaves her no choice - at least, during the workday. On Wednesday morning, Children's Hospital and all other Knoxville-area hospital systems - Covenant Health, Mercy Health Partners, University of Tennessee Medical Center and Maryville's Blount Memorial Hospital - united to announce that their facilities will be "smoke-free workplaces" by Jan. 1, 2011. Right now, that means only that employees won't be allowed to use tobacco products at the hospitals or their affiliates. Patients and visitors will still have the right to smoke in designated smoking areas. But administrators acknowledge the employee policy, which all could agree on, is "the first step" toward completely "smoke-free" campuses; individual hospitals will choose their own timetables to take the initiative further. ... Boca
Raton Community Hospital to ban smoking Hospital's
no-smoke plan wins Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has become the first hospital in North Carolina to achieve statewide "gold star" status for its tobacco-cessation programs. The rating comes from N.C. Prevention Partners, the advocacy group that successfully lobbied for every acute-care hospital in the state to become 100 percent tobacco free -- the first state to achieve the milestone. However, a trip yesterday around the main campus of Wake Forest Baptist showed that it's unlikely that the policy -- put in place in July 2007 -- will gain 100 percent compliance from employees, visitors and patients. ... Norwalk
Hospital gets the gold ...Norwalk Hospital was commended for having a smoke-free campus and
for supporting and promoting the "Nor-walker's Program" from
the Norwalk Healthy Lifestyles Cardiovascular Project with mapped out
walking routes in the City of Norwalk to encourage people to incorporate
exercise in their daily lives. ... Missouri
hospitals lead the way on smoking bans Most hospitals in the country will have smoking bans on their campuses by next year, but St. Louis hospitals already breathe easy. National regulations for hospitals have banned smoking inside medical buildings since 1992. About five years ago, hospitals started adopting smoke-free policies for their entire campuses, including parking lots, private vehicles and outdoor common areas. Missouri, which has one of the nation's highest smoking rates at 24
percent, was at the forefront of making hospitals entirely smoke-free.
... Bristol
Hospital wants city to declare Newell Road smoke free BRISTOL — Bristol Hospital recently made a formal request to have a city road that runs through its grounds declared a no-smoking zone. Hospital President Kurt Barwis asked the city to have Newell Road — the primary entrance for its emergency room, medical office building and Connecticut Spine and Pain Center — designated as smoke-free under a new law Bristol passed last summer. Barwis said that having the street made into a no-smoking zone would be "the last step in allowing us to change over the entire hospital campus as smoke-free," a move it began in 2008. City officials said they plan to ask the Hearings and Assessment Committee to look into the request and make a recommendation to the City Council. Little opposition is expected. The city’s new ordinance, which hasn’t been used yet, allows it to designate public streets and sidewalks as no-smoking zones, except where state law dictates otherwise. ... Syracuse
hospital exteriors appear smoke free during the first hours of ban Syracuse, NY -- It appears as if Onondaga County’s ban on smoking within 100 feet of hospital property is working at Crouse and Upstate University hospitals, which implemented it this morning. There are bright yellow signs announcing the ordinance on the sides
of the buildings and on fences. While cigarette butts line the sidewalks
of those hospitals like the aftermath of long-gone parties, there were
no smokers to be found near the hospitals this morning. ... Marion
hospitals begin ban of tobacco on campuses The idea of lighting up in the parking lot of Marion County's two largest hospitals got snuffed out when Munroe Regional Medical Center and Ocala Health became tobacco-free campuses today. The two hospitals, which chose today's Great American Smokeout to launch the ban, are now part of a consortium of more than 70 smoke-free Florida hospitals. Both hospitals had tried for years to make the change, but a gentle push from a local doctor and management brought the project to fruition. Dr. Dante Raju, who still remembers when doctors smoked inside hospitals, said he brought the issue to the fore. "I've been a staunch supporter of a smoke-free work environment," he said. ... Westfield
Memorial Hospital becomes a tobacco-free campus In conjunction with The Great American Smoke Out, an annual event aimed at helping people quit smoking, Westfield Memorial Hospital will become a tobacco-free campus today. According to a press release from the hospital, the new policy will prohibit the use of any type of tobacco product such as cigarettes, cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco anywhere on the hospital's grounds, and the policy will affect all employees, physicians, visitors, patients, volunteers, vendors and other medical staff. "As a healthcare provider, we were going to do it for a year, but we had so many changes with the Berger Commission that we didn't want to do it until now," said Tina Newell, a community educator at Westfield Memorial Hospital. Ms. Newell said hospital employees and others will now be required to leave the hospital's premises if they wish to smoke, adding a few employees have already quit smoking due to the policy taking effect. ... No
sanctuaries left for smokers at two Marin hospitals Two Marin hospitals have chosen Thursday, the date of the 34th Great
American Smokeout, as the day to initiate a total ban on smoking on
their campuses. To demonstrate that it means business, Novato Community Hospital on Wednesday removed its last refuge for employees and hospital visitors who smoked, a three-sided structure affectionately known as the "smoking shack." ... Local
hospitals ban smoking campuswide RICHMOND, Va. -- Employees, patients and visitors smoked their last cigarettes at Henrico Doctors' and Bon Secours Richmond hospitals yesterday. Using today's Great American Smokeout campaign as a kickoff point, the hospitals are becoming tobacco-free campuses inside and out. HCA Inc.-owned Henrico Doctors' campuses going smoke-free today include Retreat, Forest and Parham. HCA's Chippenham and Johnston-Willis hospitals went tobacco-free in 2008. John Randolph will go smoke-free later. The Bon Secours Richmond's hospitals banning all tobacco products inside and out are Memorial Regional, Richmond Community, St. Francis and St. Mary's. The bans cover even parking garages on hospital properties, but some
leased spaces at St. Mary's may be excluded. ... Clara
Maass Medical Center to Become a Smoke-Free Campus Celebrating the Great
... To mark this year’s 33rd anniversary of the Great American Smokeout, Clara Maass Medical Center (CMMC) and all other northern hospitals, health facilities and offices of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System will become smoke-free campus wide on November 19, 2009. The Great American Smokeout is a program created by the American Cancer Society to encourage Americans to quit smoking for this one day in hope that they will realize that if they can quit for one day, they can quit forever. The Great American Smokeout will be the culmination of CMMC’s year-long efforts to provide smoking cessation resources for its employees and patients. These include initiatives such as quit programs, giveaways and providing a constant stream of information. The other northern campuses that will become smoke-free include Livingston Services, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center, Saint Barnabas Corporate Center, Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Saint Barnabas Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers, Saint Barnabas Outpatient Centers and all Saint Barnabas Health Care System facilities and property in northern New Jersey. ... Florida
Hospital deland to go tobacco-free Florida Hospital DeLand’s new tobacco-free policy will go into effect Nov. 19, prohibiting any use of tobacco products by employees, physicians, visitors, patients, volunteers, vendors and medical staff anywhere on the hospital campus or property. This prohibition will apply to smoking in personal vehicles on the
property as well as on any sidewalks or streets within the boundaries
of the campus. ... Smoke-free
zone encircles hospital Bronson Frick, a spokesman for Americans for Non-Smokers Rights in California, said Friday that more than 1,000 communities nationwide have enacted some type of ban on smoking in various public places, which can include parks, restaurant patios, transit facility stops, certain areas of commercial districts and doorways to certain buildings and other places. He said the issue is a local one, and communities that adopt such bans often do so when a particular problem is identified, He said perceived problems tend to be in areas where people congregate. It is a growing trend, he said. ... Hospital
grounds go tobacco free Nov. 19 Frankfort Regional Medical Center is going tobacco free - outdoors and in. In conjunction with the American Cancer Society's 34th Great American Smokeout Challenge on Nov. 19, the local medical center is creating a tobacco free environment. Administrators and medical staff believe the move is vital to promoting the health of patients, visitors, employees, volunteers, medical staff and others, according to a news release. Tobacco use of any kind will not be permitted: Arbitrator
rules acmh's smoking ban unreasonable EAST FRANKLIN -- Employees of one union at ACMH Hospital have won the right to smoke in a designated area, after an arbitrator ruled against a hospital policy this week. The union representing the nonprofessional employees at the hospital had challenged a ban that was initiated Jan. 1 that prohibits smoking by anyone anywhere on hospital property, in an unfair labor practices complaint. The arbitrator in the complaint decided the hospital's policy is unreasonable because it fails to make reasonable accommodation for employees to smoke in a designated area -- a past practice of the hospital, it was ruled as well. Hospital officials were directed to meet with union representatives to provide for a designated smoking area. They met Wednesday to discuss the location. A spokesperson said Wednesday prior to the meeting that the hospital is disappointed in the decision. "We strongly believe it (a tobacco-free policy) was the right thing to do," said hospital spokesperson Anne Remaley. "We disagree with the arbitrator who didn't see we were trying to follow our mission statement of being a leader in promoting healthy responsible behavior in our community." ... ECM
to allow smokers to use park ECM Administrator Jody Pigg said the decision was made out of consideration for the hospital’s neighbors. “Hospital leadership and the board of directors of ECM Hospital have agreed to allow families of extended stay critical patients, as well as families with patients in our emergency department the use of the park across from the Alabama Street entrance to smoke,” Pigg said in an e-mail.” While the park is ECM property, Pigg said it is not physically connected
to any other hospital property and allows ECM to remain in compliance
with the city’s new smoking ordinance. ... Smokers
Sound Off On Tobacco Ban At Andrews Hospital ANDREWS - Another West Texas hospital is putting the brakes on tobacco. They're banning all smoking and dipping anywhere on the property. The Permian Regional Medical Center (PRMC) in Andrews is the next to go Tobacco Free. They said it's part of a state and nationwide trend. However, some smokers said the trend is forcing them to kick the habit. "It's everywhere. It's not just the hospitals. It's everywhere," Katherine Morgan, an Andrews Hospital employee and smoker, said. "There's a lot of people that don't even want to come around you if they see you with a cigarette." ... 3
local hospitals unite on going tobacco-free Three local hospitals announ-ced yesterday the facilities will go tobacco-free the first of next year. Williamson ARH (Appalachian Regional Healthcare) Hospital, Williamson Memorial Hospital and Logan Regional Medical Center will join other local healthcare facilities Jan. 1, 2010 in prohibiting tobacco use of any kind inside or outside hospital property. The health-oriented move will include the elimination of designated areas outside the three hospitals where employees, patients and visitors are currently permitted to use tobacco products, hospital officials reported. ... Calhoun
Health Services Going Tobacco-Free Calhoun Health Services will become a tobacco-free campus in 2010. The hospital board voted last week to ban all tobacco products from hospital property effective Jan. 1, 2010. “We’ve never allowed smoking inside the building, so all we’re doing is extending it to the grounds,” said James Franklin, hospital administrator. A press release from the hospital stated that as a “healthcare organization dedicated to the promotion of health and wellness,” no person, including employees, medical staff, volunteers, students, vendors, visitors or patients will be permitted to use tobacco products on hospital grounds. The restriction on em-ployees will prohibit the use of tobacco products during paid work hours, meaning they may not use tobacco during breaks or in their vehicles if on company time. Franklin said the hospital will provide employees with education classes and necessary medications to help them quit smoking. He said the January effective date was approved to provide employees and others time to adjust to the new policy. The new policy is in line with a push by BlueCross BlueShield of Mississippi to get all Mississippi hospitals tobacco-free. ... Helena
hospital goes smokefree HELENA - St. Peter's Hospital in Helena has joined other hospitals
in the state in banning tobacco use. The ban went into effect Tuesday. New
law would clear the air outside hospitals SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Patients may no longer have to pass through a gantlet of second-hand smoke to enter local hospitals if the Onondaga County executive signs a law approved Tuesday by the Legislature. The Legislature voted 15-3 to pass a local law authorizing local hospitals to ban smoking within 100 feet of their properties. Violators could be fined up to $50. County Executive Joanie Mahoney is inclined to sign the law, but will reserve judgment until she holds a public hearing, said Ben Dublin, director of intergovernmental relations. The hearing has not yet been scheduled. Before the vote, doctors, hospital officials and patients pleaded with legislators to pass the law, proposed by Thomas Buckel, D-Syracuse. ... Hospitals’
smoking areas to disappear BRADENTON -- Health experts will tell you that smoking can earn you a trip to the hospital. But as of Tuesday, Manatee County's three hospitals will make sure you don't light up anywhere near their buildings. Manatee Memorial Hospital, Blake Medical Center and Lakewood Ranch Medical Center will go tobacco-free Tuesday, following the 2007 lead of hospitals and health departments in Sarasota, DeSoto and Charlotte counties. "It's been an ongoing process for the last two years," said Vernon DeSear, Manatee Memorial's vice president of marketing and business development. "The other (counties') hospitals did it back in 2007, and we've been catching up." Smoking has long been banned inside hospital buildings, but it was permitted outside. Manatee Memorial had two designated smoking areas outside its complex, DeSear said. Now, smoking and the use of any tobacco product will be prohibited everywhere on the hospital properties. ... Monongalia
County Healthcare Provides go Tobacco-Free MORGANTOWN -- Three major health care providers in Monongalia County are getting ready to go tobacco-free and they're making sure everyone knows about it. WVU Hospitals, Mon Health Systems, and HealthSouth Rehabilitation are all counting down the days until their properties are completely tobacco-free. It's impossible to visit any of the institutions without seeing the transition, and officials say that's the point. ... South
Shore Hospital going tobacco-free ... the doors on less palliative zones: smoking areas. The Weymouth
hospital said it will ban tobacco use across its entire campus beginning
Tuesday. ... Also, citing a community health issue, the Butte County Fairgrounds has announced a smoke-free environment effective this year. The one temporary designated ... Majority
of US hospitals will have smoke-free campuses by end of year WASHINGTON DC, Aug. 20, 2009—While hospital buildings are often smoke-free, a new study finds that by February 2008, 45 percent of US hospitals had adopted "smoke-free campus" policies, meaning that all the property owned or leased by the hospital, both indoors and outdoors, was smoke-free and there were no designated smoking areas on those properties. The study, "The Adoption of Smoke-Free Hospital Campuses in the United States," is the first of its kind to examine the national prevalence of smoke-free hospital campus policies. It was conducted by The Joint Commission, the world's largest healthcare standards setting and accrediting body, and researchers from the Henry Ford Health System's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. The study was funded by the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and appears in the online version of the peer-reviewed journal Tobacco Control. "Besides the 45 percent that already had smoke-free campuses, another 15 percent indicated that they would be implementing similar policies in the near future. Hence, it is safe to assume on the basis of these results that the majority of US hospitals will have smoke-free campuses by the end of 2009," according to Scott C. Williams, PsyD, of The Joint Commission. The 2008 data shows that not-for-profit hospitals were more likely to have smoke-free campuses than for-profit hospitals. The 2008 data also shows that hospitals in Arkansas, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin had among the highest proportion of smoke-free campuses. Hospitals in several tobacco states also had significant proportion of smoke-free campuses. "In 1992, The Joint Commission implemented a standard which required hospitals to adopt a non-smoking policy throughout all buildings, limiting smoking to separate, ventilated areas. At that time, fewer than 3 percent of hospitals extended this indoor smoking ban to include the entire hospital campus, both indoors and outdoors. Our study shows that around 2004-2005 this began to change dramatically. Now a majority of the nation's hospitals do not allow smoking anywhere on their property," Williams said. The study examined the current smoking policies and future plans of 1,916 Joint Commission-accredited hospitals to determine the prevalence of smoke-free hospital campus policies and whether such policies had an impact on smoking cessation counseling offered in those hospitals. The study found that not-for-profit hospitals were slightly more likely to offer smoking cessation counseling than for-profit hospitals. The study also found that federally owned hospitals were less likely to have smoke-free campuses. This, according to the study, was likely due to the influence of federal legislation requiring all Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals to have a suitable and accessible patient indoor smoking area for patients and residents. "Such legislation makes it virtually impossible for VA hospitals to adopt a completely smoke-free campus," Williams said. All
N.C. hospitals shun tobacco usage to protect patients FAYETTEVILLE – Starting Monday, all hospitals in North Carolina are tobacco free. It’s the goal of a program created by N.C. Prevention Partners and the N.C. Hospital Association. The program first started three years ago with a $600,000 grant from Duke Endowment. Hospitals joining the program agree to make their campus 100 percent tobacco-free, including buildings, sidewalks and parking lots. Organizers say North Carolina now leads the nation in tobacco-free hospitals and will protect millions of patients, visitors and hospital employees from second-hand smoke. ... List
of North Carolina tobacco-free facilities WMC
bans smoking on campus Wyoming Medical Center will become one of 16 hospital campuses in the state to be completely nonsmoking. As of July 1, there will be no designated smoking areas in or around the hospital, including the parking garage and adjacent sidewalks, the hospital announced Wednesday at its quarterly open board of directors meeting. HEALTH:
Kaleida Health sites to go smoke-free as of July 1 All Kaleida Health sites in Western New York will become entirely smoke-free on July 1, officials said Wednesday. “Improving the health of our community is our core mission,” said James R. Kaskie, president and chief executive officer of Kaleida. “As a health care delivery system, it is important that we promote an anti-smoking environment.” Kaleida, the largest health care provider and biggest private employer in Western New York, includes Buffalo General Hospital, DeGraff Memorial in North Tonawanda, Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital, Millard Fillmore Suburban and Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. Under the new policy, no one will be permitted to smoke on the property of any Kaleida Health facility, including its hospitals, long-term care facilities, primary care sites and several other locations. |
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