Health Care Providers & Staff
The Center of Excellence for Health Systems Improvement (COE for HSI) for a Tobacco-Free New York project works with 10 Regional Grantees across New York State who do an enormous amount of work in the field to undertake health systems improvement activities to ensure that every tobacco user is screened, offered, and receives timely tobacco dependence treatment, if desired.
The project prioritizes health systems and organizations that serve populations for which smoking prevalence rates are higher, including patients with low socioeconomic status (SES), behavioral health, and substance-use diagnoses.
The work performed by the health systems improvement grantees includes large-scale systems and policy changes, provider training, and workflow redesign, to support the universal provision of evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment services.