About Lake Chelan Hospital's Tobacco-Free Campus Policy

Lake Chelan Community Hospital became a tobacco-free campus in August 2008 and is one of the first hospitals in Chelan County to adopt such a policy. The policy applies to all patients, visitors, medical staff, employees and contractors, and it is consistent with the hospital’s mission to improve the health and well-being of the local community.

The tobacco-free policy at Lake Chelan Community Hospital has received overwhelming approval from the Board of Commissioners, hospital staff and medical staff committee.

It means that smoking and tobacco chewing will not be permitted any place on the hospital’s campus—in the hospital, in the parking lot or in cars parked on the campus.

Lake Chelan Community Hospital and its medical staff offer nicotine cessation strategies and classes to the community and provide nicotine replacement therapy for any patients and employees who smoke.  Employees interested in quitting smoking are able to purchase discounted nicotine replacement therapy.

Cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States. More than 400,000 Americans die from cigarette smoking every year, including 276,000 men and 142,000 women.

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