2009 Annual Meeting and Awards
June 3, 2009
The Carolina Club, Chapel Hill
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Dear Prevention Partners,
Thank you for your dedication in helping to make NC a healthier state. This bulletin provides you with our latest, most relevant information related to making our hospitals even healthier. You are natural community leaders, thank you for continuing to promote good health.
In this issue:
- Congratulations New Red Apple Hospitals!
- Congratulations Fax Referral Challenge Winners!
- Great Tobacco Cessation News: Pfizer to Offer Free Prescriptions to Unemployed, Uninsured
- Starting the Conversation:Tools for Providers
- Upcoming Monthly Conference Call Dates and Topics
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Congratulations New Red Apple Hospitals!
 Congratulations to the newest additions to our Red Apple hospitals! We are looking forward to celebrating with you at our Annual Awards Ceremony on next week!
Angel Medical Center
Carolinas Medical Center- Mercy
Carolinas Medical Center-University
Duplin General Hospital
CarePartners Health Services
Wayne Memorial Hospital Please see the latest healhty food in hospitals map and list. This brings our current total to 25 Red Apples. Let's keep up the great work NC hospitals!
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Congratulations Fax Referral Challenge Winners!
NCPP's first Fax Referral Challenge to the N.C. Tobacco Use Quitline wrapped up at the end of April. The Challenge encouraged hospitals to make use of this important tool and over the past 10 months, referrals to the Quitline have tripled. NCPP will recognize the top large, medium and small hospitals that sent in the most fax referrals as well as the hospital that had the highest accepted services rate at our Annual Meeting on June 3rd. Congratulations to our winners!
-Large Hospital: Carolinas Medical Center
-Medium Hospital: Carteret County General Hospital
-Small Hospital: Chowan Hospital
-Highest Percentage of Accepted Services: UNC Hospitals
Our next Fax Referral Challenge will begin on July 1, 2009. To learn more about the Challenge and how to participate, please view our website (link to: http://www.healthyhospital.org/faxreferralchallenge.asp) or contact Katie Weber at 919-969-7022 x 201.
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Pfizer to Offer Free Prescriptions to Unemployed, Uninsured
Pfizer Inc. is unveiling a new program Thursday that will let people who have lost their jobs and health insurance keep taking some widely prescribed Pfizer medications for free, and for up to a year. Read More Here |
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Upcoming Conference Calls
Thursday, May 28th, 2:00pm-Healthy Food
Join us as we discuss the development of our new Web-Based Healthy Recipe Database sharing tool. We will ask callers to provide feedback on the look and feel of the new tool as we begin to design it. Your input is very valuable as we want to make sure this tool is useful and helpful to those looking to enhance their menus with new, tasty and healthy meals. The call-in information can be found below.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 3:00pm- Quit Tobacco Systems
Please plan to join us for the next phone call to share updates on how implementing and enhancing a tobacco-cessation systems approach is going for hospital employees and patients. We have had several great sharing opportunities through these monthly phone calls - it is a great way to learn about what others are doing.
Call in Number: 1-800-989-2842
Conference ID#: 4880787.
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