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.
The Community Health Programs department, at St. Peter’s Health Partners, covers an eight-county region including Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego and Delaware Counties. The goal of our work is to train and assist healthcare institutions in implementing broad-reaching and sustainable interventions to help their patients quit using tobacco. Ultimately our mission is to help people stop smoking and prevent others from starting by using evidence-based resources and programs to create a healthier New York.
The Regional Center for Tobacco Health Systems at St. Joseph’s Hospital is one of eight New York State Department of Health Bureau of Tobacco Control grant-funded programs working to reduce tobacco use and dependence. The Center covers Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Tioga and Tompkins County. The program staff is committed to promoting the Clinical Practice Guidelines developed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Considered “best practice,” the Clinical Practice guidelines consist of evidence based methods and treatments that help tobacco users quit.
The Center for a Tobacco-Free Finger Lakes (CTF), funded by the NYS Department of Health Bureau of Tobacco Control, serves 9 counties in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, including: Monroe, Seneca, Ontario, Wayne, Livingston, Schuyler, Steuben, Chemung and Yates counties. Partners include all local state funded tobacco control initiatives, the New York State Smokers’ Quitline, and county Departments of Health in participating counties.
The Center for a Tobacco-Free Hudson Valley is a grant program of the American Lung Association of the Northeast and a new program of the NYS Department of Health Bureau of Tobacco Control, Health Systems for a Tobacco-Free NYS. Our primary mission is to build on the progress made by the NYS Tobacco Cessation Centers over the past 9 years. We serve 7 Hudson Valley counties: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester
The Center for Tobacco Control (CTC) engages Long Island health care systems to improve the delivery of guideline-concordant care for tobacco dependence through systems and policy change at the organizational level. The CTC particularly focuses on health care organizations that serve individuals with low income, low educational attainment, and serious mental illness. The CTC works with higher level administrative decision-makers to ensure that providers in the health systems they manage deliver appropriate tobacco dependence treatment to all patients.
The Living Tobacco-Free “fix it” Initiative provides resources and consultation to physical health care providers and mental health care providers to improve the delivery of comprehensive, evidence-based interventions for tobacco use and dependency. The Health Promotion Center of Glens Falls Hospital, in partnership with the North Country Healthy Heart Network, works collaboratively with health care systems to develop and support the consistent and effective identification and treatment of tobacco users. Special consideration is given to, but not limited to, those that serve disparate populations with low-income, low-educational attainment and/or behavioral health care needs. Glens Falls Hospital is one of eight Health Systems for a Tobacco-Free New York contractors funded through a grant from the NYS Department of Health.
The Health Systems Change Center of Western New York (HSCC-WNY) is one of eight centers across the state funded by the NYS Department of Health Tobacco Control Program.