HEALING Inside & Out’s Inaugural Year: 58% of Massachusetts Hospitals Now Tobacco Free

MHA's initiative made a profound and positive impact on tobacco use reduction in the commonwealth during the project’s inaugural year, with 14 hospitals added to the association’s Tobacco-Free Hospitals Honor Roll in 2011...

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Tobacco-Free Employees: A Positive Public Health Trend for Hospitals

This weekend's story in USA Today on the growing trend of hospitals across the country refusing to hire smokers is welcome news to start 2012. The Massachusetts Hospital Association became one of the first small businesses to stop hiring smokers more than a year ago, and it's extremely gratifying to see this important practice catchi ...

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