Smoke Free Hospitals
Destination 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:
- Becoming and Remaining Tobacco-Free focuses on creating a tobacco-free campus
- Working with Employees suggests ways to advance tobacco-free policies, through communications, training and health benefits
- Working with Patients looks at systems, protocols and trainings for addressing tobacco use
- Working with Visitors suggests ways to respectfully enforce your tobacco-free policy
- Working in the Community shows how to partner with neighbors, physicians, tobacco quit lines and others on this important health initiative
- Appendices: Planning, policy development, communications, patient records design, formulary development, media relations, etc.
- A copy of the September 10 Destination Tobacco-Free: Webinar is now available. Click on the following links to download and share: 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.
