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Smoke Free Hospitals

nbnDestination Tobacco-Free: A Practical Tool for Hospitals and Health Systems

A national partnership of health leaders launched a new tool to help hospital executives and others develop best-practices in tobacco-use policies and protocols. The 32-page Destination Tobacco-Free: A Practical Tool for Hospitals & Health Systems, was vetted by hospital administrators and clinicians from across the United States. It contains step-by-step directions, examples, and tools that can help hospitals achieve their missions, improve care, bolster employee health, and boost the bottom line. The tool is divided into five chapters:

  1. Becoming and Remaining Tobacco-Free focuses on creating a tobacco-free campus
  2. Working with Employees suggests ways to advance tobacco-free policies, through communications, training and health benefits
  3. Working with Patients looks at systems, protocols and trainings for addressing tobacco use
  4. Working with Visitors suggests ways to respectfully enforce your tobacco-free policy
  5. Working in the Community shows how to partner with neighbors, physicians, tobacco quit lines and others on this important health initiative
  6. Appendices: Planning, policy development, communications, patient records design, formulary development, media relations, etc.
  7. A copy of the September 10 Destination Tobacco-Free: Webinar is now available. Click on the following links to download and share:
    1. Destination Tobacco-Free POWERPOINT
    2. Destination Tobacco-Free WEBINAR RECORDING
    For more information Contact: Dawn Robbins, dawn@dawnrobbins.com or call 503-774-4146.

Destination Tobacco-Free was developed through the Washington Health Foundation’s Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign with funding from the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Also available for download, Tobacco-free Living in Psychiatric Settings- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Toolkit

Visit the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors website at
http://www.nasmhpd.org/publicationsmisc.cfm for more NASMHPD publications.