Jump to full article: Florence (AL) Times Daily, 2009-11-03
Author: Michelle Rupe Eubanks Staff Writer
Intro: Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital - Administrators at Coffee Health Group have agreed to open the park across the street from Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital emergency room for smokers.
The decision was made during Monday's board meeting and comes in response to complaints by residents who live in homes that border the hospital to the south.
Coffee facilities became smoke free Oct. 1 in response to a Florence city ordinance that bans smoking in all public buildings and on public property. Coffee Health Group includes ECM Hospital and ECM East in Florence and Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals.
Bridges Crawford, who lives near ECM, had complained that smokers were making their way across Alabama Street and up Water Avenue to smoke near homes in the Rivermont subdivision.
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