UC has shown its commitment to provide a healthy environment for faculty, staff, students and visitors by implementing a systemwide tobacco-free policy that began in January.This project aims to further reduce tobacco use and exposure – the leading cause of preventable death – by developing a UC Tobacco Cessation Network. Building off a pilot project that Dr. Elisa Tong started at UC Davis with a 2013 CHQI fellowship, the UC-wide network will use electronic medical records to address tobacco use at every clinical encounter.There will be assistance with counseling and medication for greater success, with the Joint Commission tobacco measure serving as a framework. The network will partner with the California Smokers’ Helpline, a UC San Diego-based free telephone counseling service that doubles the chances of quitting, to create a two-way electronic referral, and the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, based at UCSF, to promote system wide training opportunities.Champions at each site will coordinate electronic medical record modifications, conduct outreach and education to departments and nursing units for workflow integration, and collaborate as a network through information sharing and evaluation; UC-wide champions for nursing and pediatrics will help target and tailor the needs of these staff. This project is expected to demonstrate a significant return on investment and national leadership on health systems change for tobacco cessation.projectmanager@ucquits.com
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UC Davis Outpatient Champion Associate Professor - General Medicine Project Manager Cindy Vela - UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nurse Champion
Interim Dean and Professor
School of Nursing
Lulu Wold-Hassenplug Endowed Chair in Nursing
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Pediatrics - American Academy of Pediatrics
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Department of Family and Preventable Medicine
Principle Investigator for the California Smokers Helpline
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Department of Medicine
Director of Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
Deputy Director of Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
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Mai-Khanh Bui-Duy MD - UC San Francisco Assistant Professor of Medicine 1/16/2016: CA Society for General Internal Medicine at UCSF Mission Bay ![]() Elisa Tong, MD, MA - UC Davis Associate Professor of Medicine 3/11/2016 The Cancer Care Network will be hosting a new, all-staff video conference on Smoking Cessation. 11/12/2015 "Building UC Quits: The UC-Wide Tobacco Cessation Network" at UC Davis Ground Rounds. Cari Shulkin, R.N-B.C, B.S.N - UC Davis 12/8/2015 UCD nurse outreach PCS meeting, 1/6/2016 CNIII All-Here Day, 3/2/2016 ANII All-Here Day meeting ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pharmacy Congratulations to UCSF pharmacy faculty Lisa Kroon and Robin Corelli for helping with California pharmacists now being able to prescribe nicotine medication. Go to "Provider Training" to read the California Board of Pharmacy media release and protocol. Pharmacists can fulfill the 2-hour training requirement with our UC Quits webinar modules. Lisa Kroon, PharmD Robin Corelli, PharmD ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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