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Tobacco use to stop at hospitals 

Carilion and HCA have partnered to end tobacco use by employees and visitors, starting Jan. 1
Jump to full article: Roanoke (VA) Times & World News, 2009-11-12
Author: Chris Winston

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Hoping to improve local health and limit health-care costs, the New River Valley's hospitals are joining together and joining a growing number of businesses that limit tobacco use.

Representatives of HCA and Carilion announced Wednesday morning that their hospitals, physician practices and outpatient centers throughout the New River Valley would go tobacco-free Jan. 1 for employees and guests.

Those facilities include Carilion New River Valley Medical Center near Radford and HCA's Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg and Pulaski Community Hospital in Pulaski.

Carilion Giles Community Hospital will be tobacco-free when it opens in the spring.

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