About Stevens
Tobacco-Free Policy
Stevens Hospital became a tobacco-free campus in September 2006 and was the first hospital in Snohomish County to adopt such a policy. The policy applies to all patients, visitors, medical staff, employees and contractors, and is consistent with the hospital’s mission to improve the health and well-being of the local community.
The tobacco-free policy at Stevens Hospital has received overwhelming approval from the hospital administrators, Board of commissioners, as well as the medical executive and psychiatric staff committees. It means that smoking and tobacco chewing will not be permitted any place on the hospital’s campus—in the hospital, at the Stevens Oncology Center, the Stevens Pavilion, and even in the parking lot or in cars parked on the campus.
Stevens 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.
>> Click here to view the Stevens Hospital Tobacco Free Zone (PDF).
