The Virginian-Pilot
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CHESAPEAKE
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center will go “smoke free” on Wednesday, a move that medical facilities throughout the region have taken on during the past two years.
The smoke-free policy will apply to the hospital and its exterior grounds, the Lifestyle Center, Stanley Jennings Outpatient Center and other campus areas, along with medical office buildings owned by the organization on Medical Parkway, Kingsborough Square, and Gainsborough Square.
As part of the policy’s implementation, patients and visitors will be offered free telephone smoking cessation counseling, according to a release from the hospital. Employees are being offered free smoking cessation counseling and can receive nicotine replacement therapies with no co-payments.
Medical facilities owned by Sentara Healthcare and Bon Secours Hampton Roads, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters are already tobacco free.
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chesapeake regional smoke free
A hospital may state that they are going smoke-free but the hospital can not stop a person from smoking, it is their right to be able to smoke, just not inside the hospital. This also goes for staff members. I work at a hospital that tried "smoke-free" the patients and employees continue to smoke on the campus and in their cars.
What a joke.
I saw first hand how well the "smoke free campus" is enforced at Sentara Leigh. Just look for the cars in the parking lot with IV poles next to them.