Upcoming Tobacco Cessation Coverage & Health Systems Change Cohort Opportunity.

Upcoming Tobacco Cessation Coverage & Health Systems Change Cohort Opportunity.
The American Lung Association is planning their next cohort call series around utilizing clinical care extenders in healthcare settings to increase capacity and access to evidence-based tobacco treatment services.

This opportunity is open to State Tobacco Control Program Staff and their community partners working on furthering tobacco cessation through coverage policy & systems change.
 
This cohort will include three 60-minute virtual meetings: 

• Thursday, January, 27th, 2022 at 1:00 -2:00p CST  
• Thursday, February 10th, 2022 at 1:00 -2:00p CST
• Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 1:00 -2:00p CST

If you are interested in joining the cohort, please fill out the registration and pre-assessment, found here, as it will help in planning the upcoming calls.

Additional Info:

• For the purpose of this cohort, we are defining “clinical care extenders” as non-physician professionals working in healthcare settings, that may be able to provide any of the following related to cessation: brief tobacco intervention; referral to treatment services; cessation counseling services; and in some cases, prescribe FDA-approved quit medications. Examples of “clinical care extenders” include, but are not limited to: pharmacists, patient navigators (such as oncology nurse navigators), certified tobacco treatment specialists (such as those used to conduct inpatient bedside consults among all patients identified as tobacco users admitted to hospitals), community health workers in clinical settings (working in FQHCs or community care clinics) and dental and oral health providers (dentists and dental hygienists).

If you have any questions around your work with tobacco cessation coverage and/or health systems change – please do not hesitate to contact the Lung Association at CessationTA@Lung.org.