Tobacco-Free Hospitals: Systems Change Through Partnerships and Applied Evidence-Based Cessation

Leuthard, Joy

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Exhibit Hall (Kansas City Convention Center)

Ms. Joy Leuthard, MS, LSWA , Oklahoma Hospital Association , Oklahoma City, OK

Ms. Kim Olson, BA , Tobacco Cessation Initiative, INTEGRIS Health , Oklahoma City, OK

Ms. Jennifer Watkins-Smith, MS , The Center for the Advancement of Wellness , Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma City, OK

Ms. LaWanna Halstead, RN, MPH , Quality & Clinical Initiatives, Oklahoma Hospital Association , Oklahoma City, OK

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

Describe specific steps and components essential to develop a sustainable tobacco-free culture in hospitals and their affiliated clinics.
Identify and understand the essential evidence-based resources necessary to develop system changes in hospitals.
Demonstrate how collaborative partnerships and resources are essential to promote and sustain tobacco cessation services in health care settings.

Cross Cutting Program Area(s): Evaluation and Surveillance and Tobacco Control Policies

Audience: Tobacco cessation specialists, health care providers (physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, social workers, case managers) especially those working in hospitals; hospital managers/administrators, anyone interested in successful hospital based cessation.

Key Points: Partnerships among state agencies (Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, Oklahoma State Health Department), non-profit organizations (Oklahoma Hospital Association), and local hospitals (INTEGRIS Health) can pool their resources to plan and implement comprehensive, sustainable systems changes within both small hospitals as well as complex health care systems. Sustainable cessation services within hospitals are highly successful in improving cessation rates. Multiple evidence-based strategies and processes are essential to maximize successful cessation with inpatients, outpatients, employees, family members and visitors, including application of the 5 A’s model outlined in the U.S. Public Health Service, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.

Educational Experience: Through PowerPoint, lecture and discussion, participants will (1) see the process by which Oklahoma implemented its systems’ components within hospitals; (2) how key partnerships were essential in the project success, (3) see how embedded processes were established with specific examples of policies, medication orders, work flow, and how electronic medical records have improved the process to enhance successful cessation; (4) learn about obstacles encountered and how these were overcome, (5) see 18 months of implementation outcome data and evaluation to demonstrate the success of the model.

Benefits: participants will see specific and concrete components of how this implementation developed over the course of over two years which will be application to them in their own hospital settings.

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