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NC Prevention Partners Hospital Bulletin
Issues of Pressing Interest to NC Hospitals
September 18th, 2008
Prevention Institute
October 14 - 15
Biltmore Doubletree
Asheville, NC
Asheville
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Join us for our Healthy Food Initiative Launch on Sept 24th
vegetablesYou're invited to join NCPP on September 24th at FirstHealth in Pinehurst as we launch our new initiative to help you offer healthier food to your employees, patients and visitors. Join us and help combat the obesity epidemic in North Carolina!

                            Registration is free! Sign up today!
Keeping your hospital 100% tobacco-free
Biltmore There is less than one month to sign up for our next Prevention Institute. Join us and hear from national experts about enforcing your tobacco-free policy and helping any employee, patient or visitor who uses tobacco to quit. Or sign up to hear about our initiative to help you offer healthier foods and drinks in your hospital and work on an action plan to make it happen. If possible, please send a team so that staff can attend separate tobacco and food trainings.

Check out a detailed Tobacco-Free Track Agenda
Check out a detailed Healthy Food Track Agenda

Healthy Food Roundtable a Big Success

chefOn September 8, NC Prevention Partners hosted several food industry leaders from across the country. Representatives of Aramark, Sodexo, Morrison, Premier, WNC Health Network , ASAP, NCHA Strategic Partners and US Foodservice came together to discuss about how to improve the healthy food options in North Carolina Hospitals.

Stay tuned for more information about that meeting soon. Thank you to everyone for sharing their ideas and doubling your commitment to offering healthy food in your hospitals!
Onslow Memorial Hospital went Tobacco-Free on September 1st!
That makes 115 NC Hospitals that have taken this historic step towards protecting employees, patients and visitors from the toxic effects of second-hand smoke.
 
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