NC Prevention Partners' first Jim Long Policy Fellow is working to amend a federal law that would allow Veteran's Affairs medical centers to become 100% tobacco free campuses.

Eight representatives from the Virginia based hospital system toured Rex Healthcare's wellness facility and cafeteria.

NC Prevention Partners' newly formed Policy Committee met for the first time on April 18, 2012.

Melva Fager Okun, Senior Program Manager at NC Prevention Partners, presented to physician groups at Wake Forest Baptist Health and Duke University Medical Center, and Carolinas Center of Medical Education. Picture L-R: Antonio Gutierrez, MD in charge of Duke Univ. Hospital Medicine Grand Round; Melva Fager Okun DrPH; Jeffrey Engel MPH; & Roy Pleasants PharmD,

 Training will take place June 4-7 at the Embassy Suites Raleigh Durham RTP.

Congratulations to Durham Regional Hospital for meeting all the requirements for Gold Star status!

Donna Borowski, Certified Intrinsic Coach from Mission Hospital in Asheville, will be our guest presenter.

Stanly Regional Medical Center is the latest NC hospital to meet all the requirements of a comprehensive tobacco cessation program for employees.

The ads use nursey rhymes to convey the message that secondhand smoke does not belong in a child's life.

As the first hospital to join the NYC Tobacco-Free Hospitals Campaign, as well as to achieve Bronze Star status, NYU Langone Medical Center is leading the way to help its employee and patient community quit tobacco and set an example for other New York City hospitals.

Following a celebration for winning the January Quitline Challenge, Wake Forest Baptist Health clinical leaders gathered for the first meeting of the WFBH Quit-Tobacco for Patients Committee.

The report finds that tobacco marketing is a key factor in influencing young people to start using tobacco, and nicotine addiction keeps them using it.

Dr. Melva Fager Okun and Heather Berdanier traveled to Campbell University today to train physician assistant students to provide counseling and treatment for tobacco using patients.

On March 21st from 1-2 p.m., NC Prevention Partners will host Developing a Robust Tobacco Cessation Program for Patients with special guest presenters from two North Carolina Hospitals.

UNC Hospital is the sixth North Carolina Hospital to earn the Gold Heart for excellence in tobacco cessation programs for patients.

Going for Gold: How to Create a Comprehensive Quit Tobacco System for Employees webinar is now available in NC Prevention Partners' webinar archives.

NC Prevention Partners has announced the winners of the January Quitline Champion Challenge.

The Quit Tobacco for Employees initiative assists NC hospitals in developing comprehensive tobacco cessation programs that help employees in quitting tobacco use.

Pregnant women will now receive 10 calls from QuitlineNC when they enroll in services.

The journal article found that if physicians talk to smokers about quitting, up to 35%  may make a quit attempt. 

On January 31, from 2-3 p.m. EST, NC Prevention Partners will conduct a webinar on how to manage data and improve wellness programs.

Revised Tobacco-free assessment now available!

This fall, Be Active North Carolina, Inc. issued a great challenge to school staff across the state to get active. More than 300 staff from 19 elementary, middle and high schools took on the challenge. Read on for tips on how to run a successful wellness challenge and find out who won! 

The new service from the National Cancer Institute sends texts to encourage teens and young adults to stay quit.

FirstHealth Montgomery is the 3rd hospital in FirstHealth of the Carolina's health system to earn Gold Heart status.

While the UHS system already boasts eight Red Apples, they recently passed a policy that will support and sustain the transformation that the system hospitals have put in place over the past years. This extraordinary policy, in coordination with the environmental changes that UHS has been making over the past years, was recognized by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control as a best practice and highlighted in their “P2P” series.

Healthcare providers, community leaders, and public health professionals were in attendance to learn more about recent research in tobacco control and policy and lung cancer screening.

On Tuesday, October 25th, NC Prevention Partners' Hospital Advisory Team met at the North Carolina Hospital Association in Cary. Administrators and staff from hospitals and other public health leaders gathered to hear about the recent successes of NC Prevention Partners.

Dr. Greg Miller, Medical Director of Adult Services at New York State Office of Mental Health was the guest presenter.

Heather Mountz, Quit Tobacco Coordinator, traveled to Carteret General Hospital recently to congratulate them on being North Carolina's first Red Heart hospital, meeting the highest recommendations for treating tobacco dependent inpatients.

Representing North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Patricia Folan and Christine Fardellone visited with NC Prevention Partners' Quit Tobacco team in Chapel Hill recently. North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is one of 19 Centers for Tobacco Control in New York.